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Le Tour - incl spoilers

uberwolf · 2005-07-02 10:41:29

I've deliberately not included mention of Armstrong in teh thread title, it'd be easy to describe this tour as his swansong and nothing else. perhaps he deserves that though after his performances of the last 6 years where he has rewritten the history books. Great piece in todays indo by phil ligget on that topic which…

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#32 26-07-2005 12:05pm
da_deadman

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Yeah, I'm sure it'll be one of the Discovery riders wearing no.1 next year, that's definitely what happened in the same circumstance before.

Well, I think that was a great Tour, much better than in 2004. There was not so much of a battle for the yellow jersey like in 2003 but the main protagonists had to battle it out on some fairly flat stages, medium mountains and high mountains and that was unusual.

Congratulations to Armstrong, and he deserved it. He always looked comfortable and like he was having a good time.
But well done, also, to Basso, Ullrich (and all at T-Mobile), Mancebo and a few others for attacking and trying to race for the win.

I'm quite looking forward to next year...

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