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Kevan Smith /dev/null wrote:
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 14:27:00 -0400, "The Causey Way" death@tospam from wrote:


"Kevan Smith" /\/\ wrote in message
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On 21 Jul 2003 10:49:22 -0700, (Appkiller) from
http://groups.google.com/ wrote:

"I didn't feel like the riders were waiting and I felt a
responsibility to go to the front and make a hand gesture to slow
down...."

I haven't seen the viddie but the story seems to speak for itself.
Kudos to Tyler for his heroic cycling and promotion of fair play.

Why don't you wait to hear Ulrich's comments before condemning him?


After the finish, Lance said he appreciated Ulrich waiting for him.

And of course Tyler would want them to slow down more -- he's in tremendous
pain. Ligget questions whether Ulrich waiting was a good thing to do on the
official tour site: "Should Ullrich have waited for him? After all two years
ago, it was a great gesture, but of little importance to the race -- they were
going downhill. This time, Ullrich lost all his rhythm and he can never
accelerate like Lance. Just another viewpoint."

I noticed that dailypeloton.com also said in their live report that
today the Postal team dropped the pace on the Col d'Aspin to wait for
Ullrich who had lost 30 seconds due to some kind of mechanical problem.

I suspect a lot of this hubbub is just more media histrionics, trying
to blow up every Powerbar fart into TV drama.

--Paul