Wednesday, July 12, 2006

American Meltdown at the Tour de France

June 7, 2006. Dauphine Libere, 43km individual time trial: 1st,
Zabriskie; 2nd Landis; 3rd Leipheimer; 4th Hincapie.

July 8, 2006. Tour de France, 52km individual time trial: Zabriskie,
13th; Hincapie 24th; Leipheimer 96th; Julich, DNF

With the exception of Floyd, a good old fashioned American choke-a-rama.

Especially Levi. Not even the possiblity that he peaked too early at
the Dauphine can explain this melt down. After watching this ITT, you
realize how high Armstrong and Ullrich raised the bar in their
performances over the past 7 years. You could count on one hand the
number of bad days Ullrich and Armstrong had in the past 7 years. This past weekend, the riders who were suppose to fill their shoes, just cracked under pressure.

The only reason the 170 strong peleton shouldn't pack their bags and give the yellow
jersey to Floyd is that in a 3 week race, lots of unpredictable things
can happen, especially with these characters. The only person with any
legitamate chance to take the race to Floyd is Cadel Evans. The rest
of the so called contenders need Floyd to have an off day or for Phonak
to make a big tactical error.

I'd be psyched for Landis to win this, but I just want to see someone,
anyone, make him work for this!

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