Comments on: Politics Between The Races

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:35:11 +0000

Ummm. Anyone notice a bit of a contradiction here? Note the dates:

(1) From the Team Radio Shack website:

Press Release: Milan-Sanremo: Beppu Replaces Armstrong – Roster Set for Catalunya

Posted by Nick Shuley | March 19, 2010 | 1 Comments

March 18, 2010 – Seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong will not be able to participate in Milan-Sanremo, the second ProTour event of the 2010 season. The Team RadioShack leader, suffering from acute gastroenteritis, will be replaced by teammate Fumiyuki Beppu. “It would have been good to have Lance lineup for the start but we prefer not to take any risk,” commented Team Director Johan Bruyneel. “It would not be very intelligent to let him start in a race of almost 300 K, while not being healthy.”

(2) From Lance’s Twitter Account:

# Dinner @ home w/ @annahansen, @lukearmstrong, @gracearmstrong, and @bellaarmstrong. @maxarmstrong1 is racked out! Listening to @fleetfoxes. 11:13 AM Mar 18th via UberTwitter

Having had some recent experience with “acute gastroenteritis,” I can assure you I didn’t feel much like eating dinner, hanging out listening to music, or joking around on Twitter. If dude didn’t feel like racing MSR, that’s his prerogative, but this is a bit weird, no?

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By: cosmo

cosmo — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 05:03:02 +0000

@Alex I’d still want BMC to be at my race. Better to have a couple solid second-tier guys fighting with favorites form other teams for a rare chance at glory, than a train of cobble-loathing Spaniards climbing into the broomwagon at 60k to go.

I think some of the best tactical racing at the grand tours comes from domestiques hunting stage wins when the overall favorites take a day off. Certainly Giovanni Lombardi put on some great shows tracking down the handful of “pet wins” he acquired in his career. No reason the classics/semiclassics shouldn’t occasionally be the same way.

@mr. big, I’m ok with it. The Cyclysm back when was far closer to the name of this blog, and I didn’t have any specific complaints about that.

By: mr. big

mr. big — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:00:09 +0000

Hey Cosmo,

What do you think of the wanks over at VS naming a blog “Cyclosomatic”?

By: Alex Murray

Alex Murray — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:06:00 +0000

That last one, isn’t it usually less about “respect” and all about money? Not hard to imagine that Xacobeo wanted less start money than BMC.

By: Robot

Robot — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:57:42 +0000

Armstrong allegedly “suffered” a bit during the first stage in Murcia. Bruyneel waxed rhapsodic over their new, more laid back approach. Smells like bovine effluent to me.