~40K to go - Thomas Voeckler, Jakob Piil, Stuart O’Grady, Magnus Backstedt, and Sandy Casar are up 15 minutes on the peleton. Looks like USPS will concede the yellow jersey today.
<<~40K to go - Thomas Voeckler, Jakob Piil, Stuart O’Grady, Magnus Backstedt, and Sandy Casar are up 15 minutes on the peleton. Looks like USPS will concede the yellow jersey today. >>
Pretty dull stage so far. I guess soon the guys in the break will try to start attacking each other. A lot of fast guys in that break.
The split that occured aroudn the 2nd sprint got me excited for a bit, but now they are barely riding faster then 20mph in the field.
Matt
Yeah, I like the line about the USPS blue train, which is “more transcontinental freight than TGV today”
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just had yet another massive crash in the peloton. maybe there’s some wisdom in the breakaway strategy on rainy days? get the hell outta the peloton!
1 Stuart O’Grady (Aus) Cofidis - Le Crédit Par Téléphone
2 Jakob Piil (Den) Team CSC
3 Sandy Casar (Fra) Fdjeux.com
4 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Brioches La Boulangère
5 Magnus Backstedt (Swe) Alessio-Bianchi
General classification after stage 5
1 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Brioches La Boulangère
2 Stuart O’Grady (Aus) Cofidis - Le Crédit Par Téléphone
3 Sandy Casar (Fra) Fdjeux.com
4 Magnus Backstedt (Swe) Alessio-Bianchi
5 Jakob Piil (Den) Team CSC
6 Lance Armstrong (USA) US Postal p/b Berry Floor
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anybody have a pic of :
"Backstedt attacks! The Swede explodes! He is totally wasted. "