Podium in Paris decided.

Fourtunately T.De Roy, R.Sørensen and E.Breukink managed to persuaded
M.Rasmussen to follow Armstrong today, witch means we can set the
podium in Paris:

1 L.Armstrong
2 M.Rasmussen :-)
3 ?

I.Basso, L.Leipheimer and P.Macepo will fight for 3rd spot.

However l.Armstrong is going to fight for it in order to control
M.Rasmussen and keep him within 5 minuttes until the TT (M.Rasmussen
is the worst TT'er and finnished at 174 on the first TT stage).

The only question is weather if L.Armstrong will let M.Rasmussen go
and trust his team to chase him for 100km every day, or will we see
L.Armstrong follow M.Rasmussen and leave his team behind. Expect to se
the most explosive race since 96.

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Morten Reippuert Knudsen wrote:
The only question is weather if L.Armstrong will let M.Rasmussen go
and trust his team to chase him for 100km every day, or will we see
L.Armstrong follow M.Rasmussen and leave his team behind. Expect to se
the most explosive race since 96.

Dude. I know you Danes are excited about Rasmussen and all. But this
tour is over.

7h@ch wrote:


Morten Reippuert Knudsen wrote:
The only question is weather if L.Armstrong will let M.Rasmussen go
and trust his team to chase him for 100km every day, or will we see
L.Armstrong follow M.Rasmussen and leave his team behind. Expect to se
the most explosive race since 96.

Dude. I know you Danes are excited about Rasmussen and all. But this
tour is over.

exactly the podium is decided, but Rasmussen will still attack Armstrong,
Basso, Illes Ballares etc. The interesting thing is if Armstrong will
follow him on 50-100km journies day in andday out, or trust his team
to chase him and keep him within 5 minuttes until the final TT.

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Morty, Rassmussen will be toasted and fried tomorrow.

On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 17:58:15 +0200, Morten Reippuert
wrote:

Fourtunately T.De Roy, R.Sørensen and E.Breukink managed to persuaded
M.Rasmussen to follow Armstrong today, witch means we can set the
podium in Paris:

1 L.Armstrong
2 M.Rasmussen :-)
3 ?

I.Basso, L.Leipheimer and P.Macepo will fight for 3rd spot.

However l.Armstrong is going to fight for it in order to control
M.Rasmussen and keep him within 5 minuttes until the TT (M.Rasmussen
is the worst TT'er and finnished at 174 on the first TT stage).

The only question is weather if L.Armstrong will let M.Rasmussen go
and trust his team to chase him for 100km every day, or will we see
L.Armstrong follow M.Rasmussen and leave his team behind. Expect to se
the most explosive race since 96.


Ras will finish behind Basso, Levi, Jan, Kloden and Landis.

No matter who's on the podium.

Though I hope I'm wrong.

D

"Tom Kunich" wrote in message oups.com...
Morty, Rassmussen will be toasted and fried tomorrow.

Probably. But Basso attacks tomorrow. If Lance can keep up, the
race really is his.

m.

Tom Kunich wrote:
Morty, Rassmussen will be toasted and fried tomorrow.

who's gonna toast him? He can follow Armstrongs wheel with ease if he
wants to, Armstrong or Illes Balares can drop him, but he can toast
himself by attacking from to fra away - I hope he doesn't.

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Michael wrote:

"Tom Kunich" wrote in message oups.com...
Morty, Rassmussen will be toasted and fried tomorrow.

Probably. But Basso attacks tomorrow. If Lance can keep up, the
race really is his.

Apperantly Basso isn't as strong as last year due to his Giro
adventure. But he may attack to test Rasmussen, T-Mobile and Illes
Ballares (knowning he will drag L.Armstriong along). However i don't
think the serious attacks will come from CSC tomorrow. Basso will
follow Armstrong tommorov, the question is weather Rasmussen will
attack or if wants to play safe and test himself by stayning with
Armstrong another day. Today was really only a test for Rasmussen, to
see weather he could stay with Armstrong on a final climb - and he
passed the test without to much effort.

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Tom Kunich wrote:
Morty, Rassmussen will be toasted and fried tomorrow.

who's gonna toast him? He can follow Armstrongs wheel with ease if he
wants to, Armstrong, CSC or Illes Balares can't drop him, but he can
toast himself by attacking from to far away - I hope he doesn't.

--
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mus + tastatur, R9600PRO, iSight, eyeTV200 & LaCie Photon18Vision TFT

"Morten Reippuert Knudsen" wrote in message
...
Fourtunately T.De Roy, R.Sørensen and E.Breukink managed to persuaded
M.Rasmussen to follow Armstrong today, witch means we can set the
podium in Paris:

1 L.Armstrong
2 M.Rasmussen :-)
3 ?

I.Basso, L.Leipheimer and P.Macepo will fight for 3rd spot.

However l.Armstrong is going to fight for it in order to control
M.Rasmussen and keep him within 5 minuttes until the TT (M.Rasmussen
is the worst TT'er and finnished at 174 on the first TT stage).

The only question is weather if L.Armstrong will let M.Rasmussen go
and trust his team to chase him for 100km every day, or will we see
L.Armstrong follow M.Rasmussen and leave his team behind. Expect to se
the most explosive race since 96.

--
Morten Reippuert Knudsen :-) http://blog.reippuert.dk

PowerMac G5: 1.6GHz, 1.25GB RAM, 300+300GB SATA, 8xDVD+/-RW, Bluetooth
mus + tastatur, R9600PRO, iSight, eyeTV200 & LaCie Photon18Vision TFT

Not so fast there, chief. There are still 11 stages of racing left -
ANYTHING can happen. Should Lance not crash and not get sick, he wins - no
question. But, it's not even close to being over yet.
Jeff