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Am enjoying my first full Tour on the TV : (an evening job helps)
Lance was just knocked off his bike by a ****ing stupid spectator. What are the "rules" here?? Will Ulrich pull up and let Lance get back into the race or is it just "rub of the green" as they say in Golf? That spectator should be hung by his toes. All that effort, training, determination, cat & mouse ruined by one foolish asshole. Back to the race, with fingers crossed that Lance catches up and makes a go of it. May the best man win : the fair way. -- Walter Mitty. |
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Walter Mitty brightened my day with his incisive wit when in
he conjectured that: Am enjoying my first full Tour on the TV : (an evening job helps) Lance was just knocked off his bike by a ****ing stupid spectator. What are the "rules" here?? Will Ulrich pull up and let Lance get back into the race or is it just "rub of the green" as they say in Golf? That spectator should be hung by his toes. All that effort, training, determination, cat & mouse ruined by one foolish asshole. Back to the race, with fingers crossed that Lance catches up and makes a go of it. May the best man win : the fair way. great sportsmanship from Ullrich and the others in the lead groups. great surge from Armstrong who wins by 40 seconds. Awesome stuff. -- Walter Mitty. |
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"Walter Mitty" wrote in message ... Am enjoying my first full Tour on the TV : (an evening job helps) Lance was just knocked off his bike by a ****ing stupid spectator. What are the "rules" here?? Will Ulrich pull up and let Lance get back into the race or is it just "rub of the green" as they say in Golf? That spectator should be hung by his toes. All that effort, training, determination, cat & mouse ruined by one foolish asshole. Not clear it was the spectator's fault -- he (or she) was just holding a bag of something standing alongside the route and Lance cut very close to the edge of the road and caught his brake lever on it. The fan wasn't one of those jumping out in front and back and the last moment -- he was just standing there. Mark |
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And the rule is to accept 'stuff' from spectators only with the greatest
caution lest one become sickened inadvertently or advertently. The spectator should be punished. This sort of spectator is exactly why I left auto racing before I had to start carrying a baton. Ask Gordon Johncock - yeah, I know he's a nobody - about the time a full can of coke landed between his front and rear wheels and almost in his cockpit. He stopped 'safely' at Turn-11 at Road Atlanta, did a lap or two around his car while cursing and drove off. Screw spectators. "Mark Weaver" wrote in message ... "Walter Mitty" wrote in message ... Am enjoying my first full Tour on the TV : (an evening job helps) Lance was just knocked off his bike by a ****ing stupid spectator. What are the "rules" here?? Will Ulrich pull up and let Lance get back into the race or is it just "rub of the green" as they say in Golf? That spectator should be hung by his toes. All that effort, training, determination, cat & mouse ruined by one foolish asshole. Not clear it was the spectator's fault -- he (or she) was just holding a bag of something standing alongside the route and Lance cut very close to the edge of the road and caught his brake lever on it. The fan wasn't one of those jumping out in front and back and the last moment -- he was just standing there. Mark |
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In an interview, Lance admitted that it was his own mistake. He was
riding too close to the side. -- -------------------------- Posted via cyclingforums.com http://www.cyclingforums.com |
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Walter Mitty wrote in message ...
Am enjoying my first full Tour on the TV : (an evening job helps) Lance was just knocked off his bike by a ****ing stupid spectator. What are the "rules" here?? Will Ulrich pull up and let Lance get back into the race or is it just "rub of the green" as they say in Golf? If you stayed around to watch, Ullrich and Hamilton did, in fact, hold up and let Armstrong rejoin the race--eventually, to win and increase his margin over ullrich by a minute. The custom in the peloton, apparently, is that it is unsporting (though not illegal) to take undue advantage of your competitors' accidents or mechanical failures. Armstrong did the same for Ullrich in 2001, when Ullrich ended up (quite spectacularly, if I remember right) in a field. That spectator should be hung by his toes. All that effort, training, determination, cat & mouse ruined by one foolish asshole. Would you rather the Tour be so unpopular as to have no spectators at all? There are a lot of people--riders, support vehicles, press vehicles, race officials, gendarmes, and spectators--crammed onto not a lot of frontage on very remote roads. These things happen. I'd be curious to know whether any spectator, in the hundred years of the Tour de France, has wilfully attacked or injured a competitor with a view to denying that competitor a stage or overall victory. May the best man win : the fair way. Today, he did, and the whole peloton demonstrated a kind of class that is seldom seen in other sporting events--indeed, seldom seen on Usenet, either. as for me: allez Tyler! -Luigi |
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In article , Luigi de
Guzman wrote: I'd be curious to know whether any spectator, in the hundred years of the Tour de France, has wilfully attacked or injured a competitor with a view to denying that competitor a stage or overall victory. The answer is yes. In 1975 a French fan stepped out from the crowd and punched Eddie Merckx in the kidney during a climb -- he was a fan of Bernard Thevenet and apparently upset that the trophy was going to leave France. Merckx had the yellow jersey at the time. The kidney became infected and forced him to abandon, and Thevenet went on to win. In typical Merckx fashion, after the stage we went back down looking for they guy that hit him. -- "Divide by cucumber error, please reinstall Universe and reboot" -- Terry Pratchett, _Hogfather_ |
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Mon, 21 Jul 2003 12:56:27 -0400,
, "Doug Huffman" wrote: Screw spectators. Tell that to the sponsors. -- zk |
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