Cheap move, cheap move. For shame CSC! Vino' goes down hard and the boys in red and black go to the front and drill it in a show of unethical riding. The only problem is that now CSC has gone and pissed off the most volatile rider in the peloton. Oh, and who has his back? A whole team full of eastern bloc goombahs who are just as unpredictable as their leader.
Another victim on the day was Vino's Astana teammate, Andreas Kloden. Preliminary reports have Klodie suffering a broken coccyx aka the ass bone. This should provide no problems for Klodie. He's german; the culture that brought us nihilism, so riding in pain shouldn't be an issue for Klodie since life is pain.
Tomorrow we should see another no hoper break off frenchmen, a last few kilometers catch by the sprinter's teams and then some super crazy sprint. At least that's my prediction...
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In the Times, the Astana GM disagrees:
"Nevertheless, Marc Biver, the general manager of Astana, said he did not believe that the peloton had tried to take advantage of Vinokourov’s misfortune. He said that because the fall occurred just as the large group of riders was about to catch the breakaway, it was inconceivable that they would slow to allow Vinokourov to catch up.
“I don’t see it as a personal attack against our team,” Biver said. “It’s a logical thing that happened. Maybe I’m wrong, but I didn’t see it like that and I don’t consider like that. Why should they wait?”
Nevertheless, be on the lookout for angry Kazakh...
I am with you Shawn I think that on some level they jacked it up a little when he went down. Maybe they had to, in order to catch the break but the speed still seemed to pick up at just the right time. However, I say after last year when riders ended up on the podium after being allowed to take off in long breaks. Drill em when they are down. This year Le Tour seems to be and may end up being about not losing the race on any day, rather than making the big winning move in just a couple days.
Take care and i still can't sign in at work.
Eddie
You don't stop riding with 25k to go and the yellow jersey in your wagon.
They put their boys on the front, just as Postal would have when Lars...um Nancy...uh, Armstrong was le patron.
Now stop worrying about the BMC bike frame boom that will result if your man Vino wins and play the game like a true fan.
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