Stage Seven...
Stage Seven:
1st: Serhiy Honchar - Ukraine - T-Mobile - 1:01:43
2nd: Floyd Landis - USA - Phonak - 1:02:44
3rd: Sebastian Lang - Germany - Gerosteiner - 1:02:47
Overall:
1st: Serhiy Honchar - Ukraine - T-Mobile - 30:23:20
2nd: Floyd Landis - USA - Phonak - (+ 1:00)
3rd: Michael Rogers - Austrailia - T-Mobile (+ 1:08)
Other notables:
6th:Andreas Kloden - Germany - T-Mobile (+ 1:50)
8th: Cadel Evans - Australia - Lotto - (+ 1:52)
10th:Dave Zabriskie - USA - CSC (+ 2:03)
13th: Paolo Savoldelli - Italy - Discovery (+ 2:10)
17th: George Hincapie - USA - Discovery (+ 2:30)
23rd: Yaroslav Popovich - Ukraine - Discovery (+ 2:37)
36th:Egoi Martinez - Spain - Discovery (+ 4:33)
62nd: Levi Leipheimer - USA - Gerolsteiner (+ 6:17)
120th: Jens Voight - Germany - CSC (+ 11:23)
Yellow Jersey (Overall Leader): Serhiy Honchar
Green Jersey(Top Points Earner): Robbie McEwen
White Jersey(Best Young Rider): Marcuz Fothen (Germany)
Red Polka Dot Jersey (King of the Mountain): Jerome Pineau (France)
Yellow Numbers (Best Team): T-Mobile
Red Number (Most Competitive): N/A
Lost to Injury: Bobby Julich - USA - CSC (Broken Wrist)
GRRR. I seriously almost didn't update today, I was so furious - absolutely LIVID - about how the ITT went. What the hell, America? Discovery? Just about all of the people that should have done fantastic today and set themselves apart for the next two weeks were horrible. WHO THE HELL IS HONCHAR? Leipheimer quite possibly had the worst time trial of his career. Zabriskie is the most aerodynamic man in cycling and he only pulled a 10th place finish? He holds the record for fast ever average speed in a time trial. EVER. ARRRGH. And DO NOT get me started on Team Discovery today. WTF (mate)? WTF? They are down to FIFTH in the team standings - they've been in first since day one. I can't even fathom what happened there. All of them. Except maybe Martinez who started to climb back up. But seriously - Hincapie, what are you trying to do to me here? Fourth to seventeenth? In a time trial? For shame - Amstrong would kill him. Rawrawrawr. The only guy who seemed to have his act together was Landis. And I will give him a lot of credit. The officials made him lower his hands on the bars at the start of the race, which caused them to crack so he had to change bikes in the middle of the stage. Even for all of his bad luck with time trials this year (like being eight seconds late to start the prologue because of a malfunction) he STILL managed second. So no excuses for these other guys. Ooooo they had better work their asses off in the Pyrenees or so help me God I will...get really angry. And to add to this distaster of a stage Bobby Julich is out. He took one of the most horrible falls I have seen since I started watching. He lost all traction and bam...landed hard on a curb. Ouch, seriously. So he's out, in an almost identical situation to the only other time he had to pull out of a tour in 1999 when he crashed in a Stage Eight ITT. Poor Bobby Julich. Here's an idea - hey other American riders - step it up so he's not out of it for nothing.
Roar.
1st: Serhiy Honchar - Ukraine - T-Mobile - 1:01:43
2nd: Floyd Landis - USA - Phonak - 1:02:44
3rd: Sebastian Lang - Germany - Gerosteiner - 1:02:47
Overall:
1st: Serhiy Honchar - Ukraine - T-Mobile - 30:23:20
2nd: Floyd Landis - USA - Phonak - (+ 1:00)
3rd: Michael Rogers - Austrailia - T-Mobile (+ 1:08)
Other notables:
6th:Andreas Kloden - Germany - T-Mobile (+ 1:50)
8th: Cadel Evans - Australia - Lotto - (+ 1:52)
10th:Dave Zabriskie - USA - CSC (+ 2:03)
13th: Paolo Savoldelli - Italy - Discovery (+ 2:10)
17th: George Hincapie - USA - Discovery (+ 2:30)
23rd: Yaroslav Popovich - Ukraine - Discovery (+ 2:37)
36th:Egoi Martinez - Spain - Discovery (+ 4:33)
62nd: Levi Leipheimer - USA - Gerolsteiner (+ 6:17)
120th: Jens Voight - Germany - CSC (+ 11:23)
Yellow Jersey (Overall Leader): Serhiy Honchar
Green Jersey(Top Points Earner): Robbie McEwen
White Jersey(Best Young Rider): Marcuz Fothen (Germany)
Red Polka Dot Jersey (King of the Mountain): Jerome Pineau (France)
Yellow Numbers (Best Team): T-Mobile
Red Number (Most Competitive): N/A
Lost to Injury: Bobby Julich - USA - CSC (Broken Wrist)
GRRR. I seriously almost didn't update today, I was so furious - absolutely LIVID - about how the ITT went. What the hell, America? Discovery? Just about all of the people that should have done fantastic today and set themselves apart for the next two weeks were horrible. WHO THE HELL IS HONCHAR? Leipheimer quite possibly had the worst time trial of his career. Zabriskie is the most aerodynamic man in cycling and he only pulled a 10th place finish? He holds the record for fast ever average speed in a time trial. EVER. ARRRGH. And DO NOT get me started on Team Discovery today. WTF (mate)? WTF? They are down to FIFTH in the team standings - they've been in first since day one. I can't even fathom what happened there. All of them. Except maybe Martinez who started to climb back up. But seriously - Hincapie, what are you trying to do to me here? Fourth to seventeenth? In a time trial? For shame - Amstrong would kill him. Rawrawrawr. The only guy who seemed to have his act together was Landis. And I will give him a lot of credit. The officials made him lower his hands on the bars at the start of the race, which caused them to crack so he had to change bikes in the middle of the stage. Even for all of his bad luck with time trials this year (like being eight seconds late to start the prologue because of a malfunction) he STILL managed second. So no excuses for these other guys. Ooooo they had better work their asses off in the Pyrenees or so help me God I will...get really angry. And to add to this distaster of a stage Bobby Julich is out. He took one of the most horrible falls I have seen since I started watching. He lost all traction and bam...landed hard on a curb. Ouch, seriously. So he's out, in an almost identical situation to the only other time he had to pull out of a tour in 1999 when he crashed in a Stage Eight ITT. Poor Bobby Julich. Here's an idea - hey other American riders - step it up so he's not out of it for nothing.
Roar.
posted by Pam @ 2:10 PM
4 Comments:
At 2:52 PM,
Liz said…
are you kidding me? damn americans....ITT are "supposed" to be one of their strong stages. Im glad i didnt watch it now...I may have killed someone. On a different note.....6 days!
At 9:15 PM,
George said…
ok i have grown to love this side of pam woodward. marry me. i love seein how crazed u get over the tour. its great. now u know how i was feelin wen i told my story about the little asian kid when i rocked him in the lacrosse game lol. keep up the insane sports fanatic attitude!
At 11:46 PM,
Useless Major said…
Sending me vaguely threatening text messages is no way to pass time between stages, Ms. Woodward.
At 12:44 AM,
Kate said…
wow, don't mess with pam. she might kill you. just for sucking at cycling...or not calling when you said you would...so sorry!! Its been a very busy weekend. But I promise I'll call soon. Promise.
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