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Cooke went too early (what's too late?)
Today's stage to Bordeaux: Measuring by Mark-I eyeball, it looks like
Baden Cooke pulled around McGee's leadout at least 300 meters from the line, could've been more. That gave McEwen (and Zabel) plenty of time to build up steam and move around him. I suspect Cooke ran down. Shouldn't Cooke have waited until, say, 100 meters to go? If you've got a fine leadout guy like McGee (WC pursuiter), why not use him up completely? At some point you've got to worry about your leadout nipping you all at the line, but I assume a professional can deal with that. You could get boxed in, but then look for the guy on your wheel to come around you, then take the other side (screw the other guy who might be moving up on the other side). If McEwen has more power and higher top-end speed, take away his chance to get there, right? -- -- Lynn Wallace http://www.xmission.com/~lawall "I'm not proud. We really haven't done everything we could to protect our customers. Our products just aren't engineered for security." --Microsoft VP in charge of Windows OS Development, Brian Valentine. |
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Cooke went too early (what's too late?)
Raptor wrote:
Today's stage to Bordeaux: Measuring by Mark-I eyeball, it looks like Baden Cooke pulled around McGee's leadout at least 300 meters from the line, could've been more. snip Yep, I called it that way too - no way the green jersey should have been on the front with that far to go. I wonder if our Cookey is a good timer of the sprint - he himself hinted after his early win in this Tour that he was helped by having been boxed in at the start of the sprint, so he was forced to wait until the "right" time to go for it (implying he would have gone earlier, to his detriment, if he could have). &roo |
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