… not that this hasn’t been repeatedly said, but jan’s comments from his website (http://www.janullrich.de) just exemplify the best of the sport. sorry for the rough german translation, but it was the best google could do:
Armstrongs attack was okay
Hello fan,
this stage I will long not forget my life. Armstrong seized on and suddenly lay it and Mayo before me on the road. I got a giant fright and could straight still evade.
I looked myself again and saw that no had carried serious injuries of it. What a luck, it would have been terrible, if the route had been decided by an accident. Even if Lance carried partial responsibility, because he had driven past too closely at the spectators, I did not think a moment of an attack.
The Fairness belongs to the cycle racing like the wheels. Armstrong did not also drive of it, when I fell before two years into the brook.
Which it directly again attacked was okay. Lance was on this day simply the strongest one. It won earned.
I do not believe however that this was already the decision. In former times it decreased with two minutes. This time without the time credit notes only 40 seconds. That means: It remains exciting up to the Champs Ellysée.
That is nevertheless, which we all want!
