Julich's third place

In article , Kyle Legate
wrote:

wrote:
On Jul 29, 8:24 am, "Carl Sundquist" wrote:
Given the non-starts, doping positives, team dismissals, and team
"retirements" related to the '07 Tour, will rbr get give this year's podium
the same "recognition" as they generally do for Bobby's third place, or
lighten up on Julich's '98 result in comparison to this year's doping
related non-finishers?

Discuss.

Julich's 3rd was/is a great result, and he's a great rider. Any twit
here who says otherwise needs to cite their own results to compare to
his.

I don't need to cite my results. I only need to point you to Julich's
palmares to demonstrate that his podium place in the Tour was a fluke.

I don't agree with your assesment that his third was a fluke, Kyle. We can look at
his palmares - '98 was a fairly good year for him (or anyone with those results). His
day to day performances in the '98 TdF were consistently strong and got better as the
race got to the end. I will certainly admit that his results were pretty sparse
between '99 and '03. Of course, two of those years were on T-Mobile, the Black Hole
of cycling. Plenty of people went to TM and disappeared - he was one of 'em. But look
at his results for '04 and '05. Pretty damn good, no two ways about it.

http://www.trap-friis.dk/cykling/usa.Julich.htm

One doesn't have to be of equal or greater accomplishment to comment on
others' performances.

Yeah, that's true. To suggest otherwise is kind of dumb, actually.

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tanx,
Howard

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remove YOUR SHOES to reply, ok?