Comments on: Tour de France wrap up http://blog.xcski.com/2004/07/27/tour-de-france-wrap-up Everything I used to bore people on newsgroups and mailing lists with, now in one inconvenient place. Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:39:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Karen Cooper http://blog.xcski.com/2004/07/27/tour-de-france-wrap-up#comment-318 Karen Cooper Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000 http://xcski.com/wordpress/?p=266#comment-318 Read over Vicki's shoulder my LJ with my report of being on the Rue de Rivoli on Sunday as the peloton rolled by. Do you think that Kloden came out as the head of the CSC team? Read over Vicki’s shoulder my LJ with my report of being on the Rue de Rivoli on Sunday as the peloton rolled by.

Do you think that Kloden came out as the head of the CSC team?

]]> By: Paul Tomblin http://blog.xcski.com/2004/07/27/tour-de-france-wrap-up#comment-319 Paul Tomblin Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000 http://xcski.com/wordpress/?p=266#comment-319 <i>Read over Vicki's shoulder my LJ with my report of being on the Rue de Rivoli on Sunday as the peloton rolled by.</i> She's been sending them to me. Or you could try friending my LJ account (ptomblin_lj) so I could read them directly. <i>Do you think that Kloden came out as the head of the CSC team?</i> If his team (T-Mobile, but you knew that) doesn't make him the head of the team soon, I bet he goes hunting for a new team. I bet that would be embarrassing for the major German team to not have the German champion. Read over Vicki’s shoulder my LJ with my report of being on the Rue de Rivoli on Sunday as the peloton rolled by.

She’s been sending them to me. Or you could try friending my LJ account (ptomblin_lj) so I could read them directly.

Do you think that Kloden came out as the head of the CSC team?

If his team (T-Mobile, but you knew that) doesn’t make him the head of the team soon, I bet he goes hunting for a new team.

I bet that would be embarrassing for the major German team to not have the German champion.

]]> By: Georg Bauer http://blog.xcski.com/2004/07/27/tour-de-france-wrap-up#comment-320 Georg Bauer Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000 http://xcski.com/wordpress/?p=266#comment-320 Andreas Klöden and Jan Ullrich are close friends - some time Andreas actually lived in Jans house. There won't be much discussion between those two riders about who is leader and who not. So I don't think he will go hunting for another team. Maybe Vinokourov will do - because now he is third in line, because Klöde is a much better timetrial rider than he is. With CSC I hope that Basso stays there - Riis has a very good hand in building fighters and I think he can fix the last bugs in Bassos style (like Basso keeping his head in time trials the wrong angle). On the other hand I would be quite happy if Ullrich would go to another team - mostly because I can't stand Walter Godefroot. I think that his "dominance thinking" is the biggest problem with T-Mobile. Let Jan Ullrich run as a underdog or without the pressure and he performs _much_ better than under the pressure Godefroot put's on hime. We could see that last year when Ullrich rode for Bianchi and this year after Ullrich wasn't a competitor for the tour victory any more. Ullrich with Gerolsteiner or CSC for example would be quite fun, because I think Riis or Holtz could shape him much better than Godefroot can. Andreas Klöden and Jan Ullrich are close friends - some time Andreas actually lived in Jans house. There won’t be much discussion between those two riders about who is leader and who not. So I don’t think he will go hunting for another team. Maybe Vinokourov will do - because now he is third in line, because Klöde is a much better timetrial rider than he is.

With CSC I hope that Basso stays there - Riis has a very good hand in building fighters and I think he can fix the last bugs in Bassos style (like Basso keeping his head in time trials the wrong angle).

On the other hand I would be quite happy if Ullrich would go to another team - mostly because I can’t stand Walter Godefroot. I think that his “dominance thinking” is the biggest problem with T-Mobile. Let Jan Ullrich run as a underdog or without the pressure and he performs _much_ better than under the pressure Godefroot put’s on hime. We could see that last year when Ullrich rode for Bianchi and this year after Ullrich wasn’t a competitor for the tour victory any more. Ullrich with Gerolsteiner or CSC for example would be quite fun, because I think Riis or Holtz could shape him much better than Godefroot can.

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