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Recent content by mortimer99

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    Official Lance Armstrong thread

    can Paul Phil Bob and Criag just bl** lance and be done with it? Man I am tired of their Lance commentary. God forbid they guy gets a hangnail, it will be a 20 min special, how he came back from cuticle deformation to win the tour de france at age 37...blah, blah blah....
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    Popovych - Maybe he is paid by someone else

    pacing leipheimer Did anyone pace Leipheimer up after his mechanical? It looked to me like he was on his own from what I remember. I would think you would want your guy to expend as little energy as possible to get back in the mix. In addition, why did Armstrong leave him to go with the...
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    Kohl retires

    more doping You would think you could make doping a lot easier to address. If the DS and the rider that was caught were both suspended for 2 years, maybe the teams would really start caring about doping in their team. In addition, ban the team from the event that where they were caught for 2...
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    Slipstream: Has their time passed?

    garmin What I don't understand is why in this Giro are they at least not in the breaks? Viscontti has been in almost all of them. Garmin is advertising like crazy at the event, you would think the DS would make sure a Garmin guy was in the break at least once.
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    Whos garmins team leader now?

    Not sure if VDV was ever their GC guy, but who is it now? I noticed that the only Garmin guy to finish in the 1st group in stage 3 was farrar. I would think after Dave Z's performance in 07 he would be a candidate, and then there is the inconsistent Tommy D, don't think Millar has a chance...
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    Universal Giro Commentator

    my favorite quote from phil and paul "he is hanging on like a limpet" now that is one unusual analogy.