TDF Stage 18: Armstrong lost 2sec to Ullrich

Just checked online today's 18th stage TDF at OLN website and found
out Armstrong leads Ullrich by 1min 5sec (not 1min 7sec).
How come? I thought they crossed the finish line on the same peloton.
What's up with that????? Or is it another OLN error?

vintage wrote:
Just checked online today's 18th stage TDF at OLN website and found
out Armstrong leads Ullrich by 1min 5sec (not 1min 7sec).
How come? I thought they crossed the finish line on the same peloton.
What's up with that????? Or is it another OLN error?

Jan Ullrich picked up 2 seconds in the early sprint

Jan


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(vintage) wrote in news:1eeb936f.0307250848.226d0745
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Just checked online today's 18th stage TDF at OLN website and found
out Armstrong leads Ullrich by 1min 5sec (not 1min 7sec).
How come? I thought they crossed the finish line on the same peloton.
What's up with that????? Or is it another OLN error?


Ullrich went for an interim sprint early in the stage and took second ahead
of Armstrong's third. Ullrich gained 4 seconds, and Armstrong gained 2. Net
was two seconds to Ullrich. A somewhat silly move and high-risk move, but
there you have it.

Quote by Armstong " Its not like I'm going to lose the tour by two seconds".
Oh dear Lance why cant you lose by two seconds ??? Two seconds or two hours.
If Jan takes 1 minute 7 seconds out of Armstrong he will have won by only 2
seconds, and somehow Armstrong feels he is above this ? Boy is it gonna be
fun tommorow !!!!!


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"TimBenz" wrote in message
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(vintage) wrote in news:1eeb936f.0307250848.226d0745
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Just checked online today's 18th stage TDF at OLN website and found
out Armstrong leads Ullrich by 1min 5sec (not 1min 7sec).
How come? I thought they crossed the finish line on the same peloton.
What's up with that????? Or is it another OLN error?


Ullrich went for an interim sprint early in the stage and took second
ahead
of Armstrong's third. Ullrich gained 4 seconds, and Armstrong gained 2.
Net
was two seconds to Ullrich. A somewhat silly move and high-risk move, but
there you have it.

From: "AMG"

Clearly, Ullrich is thinking that Saturday's outcome, and thus the outcome
of the entire tour, could come down to a difference of seconds, and that if
he can nip a couple off LA's lead...

He really delivered a message of agression there. Well done, and a couple of
seconds gained, too. Great gamesmanship, low risk in an inter. sprint, another
story for this vintage Tour. --Tom Paterson

"TimBenz" wrote in message
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(vintage) wrote in news:1eeb936f.0307250848.226d0745
@posting.google.com:

Just checked online today's 18th stage TDF at OLN website and found
out Armstrong leads Ullrich by 1min 5sec (not 1min 7sec).
How come? I thought they crossed the finish line on the same peloton.
What's up with that????? Or is it another OLN error?


Ullrich went for an interim sprint early in the stage and took second
ahead
of Armstrong's third. Ullrich gained 4 seconds, and Armstrong gained 2.
Net
was two seconds to Ullrich. A somewhat silly move and high-risk move, but
there you have it.

Not silly, cool as hell. With that move he showed that he means business,
he's ready for a fight. All those who act so positive of the outcome are
ignorant. What's going to happen tomorrow is so up in the air, it's great.

It was a nice bit of gamesmanship, but it could backfire. The last thing
Ullrich wants to do is get Lance mad. I read somewhere (Dylan Casey?) how to
win the tour de France

Step 1) Don't make Lance mad
Step 2) Don't make Lance mad
....

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On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 16:56:29 GMT, TimBenz wrote:

(vintage) wrote in news:1eeb936f.0307250848.226d0745
:

Just checked online today's 18th stage TDF at OLN website and found
out Armstrong leads Ullrich by 1min 5sec (not 1min 7sec).
How come? I thought they crossed the finish line on the same peloton.
What's up with that????? Or is it another OLN error?


Ullrich went for an interim sprint early in the stage and took second
ahead
of Armstrong's third. Ullrich gained 4 seconds, and Armstrong gained 2.
Net
was two seconds to Ullrich. A somewhat silly move and high-risk move, but
there you have it.

Why silly and high-risk? He's a better sprinter and he knows it.


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On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 00:33:01 +0200, "trg"
wrote:

It was a nice bit of gamesmanship, but it could backfire. The last thing
Ullrich wants to do is get Lance mad. I read somewhere (Dylan Casey?) how to
win the tour de France

Step 1) Don't make Lance mad
Step 2) Don't make Lance mad

Step 3) Make Lance mad and get him hyperventilating

Gerrit Stolte wrote in
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Why silly and high-risk? He's a better sprinter and he knows it.

Even his directeur sportif called it risky. While he could gain two
seconds, what if he crashed? What were the odds he would take time? After
all, Armstrong is almost certainly the better sprinter.

trg wrote:

I read somewhere (Dylan Casey?) how to win the tour de France

Step 1) Don't make Lance mad
Step 2) Don't make Lance mad

But won't Lance get mad anyway when he's about to loose?