Ooch, ouch
Jul. 5th, 2005 11:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenaySo. Bad day. Owie. FMS sucks sometimes.
< / whine>
My guys decided to give me heart-attackes today. Absolutely brilliant stage, but not good for the weak of heart.
The battle between CSC and Discovery was as tight as predicted and, as I though, T-Mobile just couldn't muster a good enough response. It's a shame for Vino, but he's still within touching distance of the podium. Ullrich hasn't lost too much time, but he'll need to pull out something very special in the mountains in order to win and he just doesn't have that climbing ability.
So, the CSC vs Discovery race. It was truly thrilling. They both had superb timing and tactics, they looked incredibly strong on the bikes and, if it hadn't been for a touch of bad luck, they might well have come in with fractions of a second seperating them.
But sadly, there was the bad luck. David Zabrisky - who has won my heart over the last few days and I'll definitely be cheering him on in the future - pulled a foot out of the pedal and fell hard with just over one kilometer to go. The team had to continue on without him or lose all hope of their other leader, Ivan Basso, being in contention.
Damn.
Zabrisky picked himself up, grabbed a new bike and made it to the end of the stage, but he didn't finish with the team so he didn't get their time. He's now 1 minute 26 seconds down on the yellow jersey, Lance Armstrong - even with Ivan Basso. Part of me is incredibly sad and disappointed to see him lose the yellow like that, particuarly after the math was done and they worked out that he'd have kept his yellow if he hadn't crashed. Another part of me is still happy to see Lance in yellow.
It must be gutting, though. There was a two second gap between DZ and Lance this morning. CSC lost the TTT by two seconds and, when fractions of a second were accounted, DZ would have kept the jersey by one tenth of a second.
But that's cycling. DZ looks very battered and scraped, but he finished the stage. Hopefully, barring broken bones, he'll be back tomorrow covered in gauze and bandaids. That's the mark of a real competitor: the ability to take the knocks and keep on cycling. I'll be interested to see how he rides in the mountains and the long individual time trial at the end. DZ is only twenty-five so he has several years to go before he reaches his peak. If he has some climbing ability and finishes his first Tour in decent shape then I'll have a new guy to cheer for victory in a couple of years. He's shy, very funny and highly personable - if he's got the talent to go with it, I might have a new hero :-)
Going to bed where I will hopefully sleep (not that I have over the past couple of nights, but...) and wake up feeling tonnes better tomorrow.
< / whine>
My guys decided to give me heart-attackes today. Absolutely brilliant stage, but not good for the weak of heart.
The battle between CSC and Discovery was as tight as predicted and, as I though, T-Mobile just couldn't muster a good enough response. It's a shame for Vino, but he's still within touching distance of the podium. Ullrich hasn't lost too much time, but he'll need to pull out something very special in the mountains in order to win and he just doesn't have that climbing ability.
So, the CSC vs Discovery race. It was truly thrilling. They both had superb timing and tactics, they looked incredibly strong on the bikes and, if it hadn't been for a touch of bad luck, they might well have come in with fractions of a second seperating them.
But sadly, there was the bad luck. David Zabrisky - who has won my heart over the last few days and I'll definitely be cheering him on in the future - pulled a foot out of the pedal and fell hard with just over one kilometer to go. The team had to continue on without him or lose all hope of their other leader, Ivan Basso, being in contention.
Damn.
Zabrisky picked himself up, grabbed a new bike and made it to the end of the stage, but he didn't finish with the team so he didn't get their time. He's now 1 minute 26 seconds down on the yellow jersey, Lance Armstrong - even with Ivan Basso. Part of me is incredibly sad and disappointed to see him lose the yellow like that, particuarly after the math was done and they worked out that he'd have kept his yellow if he hadn't crashed. Another part of me is still happy to see Lance in yellow.
It must be gutting, though. There was a two second gap between DZ and Lance this morning. CSC lost the TTT by two seconds and, when fractions of a second were accounted, DZ would have kept the jersey by one tenth of a second.
But that's cycling. DZ looks very battered and scraped, but he finished the stage. Hopefully, barring broken bones, he'll be back tomorrow covered in gauze and bandaids. That's the mark of a real competitor: the ability to take the knocks and keep on cycling. I'll be interested to see how he rides in the mountains and the long individual time trial at the end. DZ is only twenty-five so he has several years to go before he reaches his peak. If he has some climbing ability and finishes his first Tour in decent shape then I'll have a new guy to cheer for victory in a couple of years. He's shy, very funny and highly personable - if he's got the talent to go with it, I might have a new hero :-)
Going to bed where I will hopefully sleep (not that I have over the past couple of nights, but...) and wake up feeling tonnes better tomorrow.
