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shaq-d
06-06-2004, 12:35 PM
well, the big guys are out for the dolphinay libayray. :beer:

by my count it looks like there's 5 PHONAK riders in the top 10 of the prologue TT, which has a cat-4 climb, including obviously hamilton. ouchies for those of us who aren't hamilton fans... go usps and csc !

:banana:

sd
shinomaster
06-06-2004, 01:32 PM
Mayo won, with Tyler in second and the Texas toast, oh, I mean tornado in third. Mayo is maybe a guy to be afraid of.
oracle
06-06-2004, 01:35 PM
he won't be able to put that much meat in to the pedals in a 50k tt come july.

oracle
shinomaster
06-06-2004, 01:43 PM
true, but he climbs real good.
sellsworth
06-06-2004, 06:29 PM
As I see it Mayo already has a 4.5 minute deficit to Lance in the TdF. His team will lose 2.5 minutes in the TTT and Mayo will lose 2 minutes at least in that last ITT.
csb
06-06-2004, 07:46 PM
ouchies! uh?
coylifut
06-06-2004, 08:17 PM
Mayo won the prologue last year as well, but by 4-5 seconds. This year, the top three are separated by a fraction of a second. Coincidently, Tex got third on the stage last year. I agree with the above poster that says Mayo is down 4 minutes from the get-go at the Tdf.
Elefantino
06-07-2004, 06:06 AM
As I see it Mayo already has a 4.5 minute deficit to Lance in the TdF. His team will lose 2.5 minutes in the TTT and Mayo will lose 2 minutes at least in that last ITT.

He can only lose 2 minutes in the TTT. New, idiotic rules this year cap a team's losses at 2 minutes. Which means that Mayo and the rest of Euskatel can show up on beach cruisers and save themselves for the mountains.
soulspinner
06-07-2004, 06:34 AM
Yeah, and all aimed at keeping a Texan from setting the new mark? My heart says Tyler but my head says Lance.
Roy E. Munson
06-07-2004, 07:04 AM
IF, and I say if, T-Mobile is fit this year, they have a better TT team than USPS. However, the team TT is a ridiculous event and I wish they would get rid of it.
sellsworth
06-07-2004, 01:57 PM
Elefantino - I think that the TTT max time loss is 2.5 minutes, not 2. I still think that Euskatel will go all out to try to get below the 2.5 minute loss. The TTT is long enough before the mountains so taking it easy and accepting the 2.5 minute loss won't help much - and there's no ITT in between.