Floyd Landis fans, can you believe this? As I type Landis has broken ahead of the yellow jersey group and is *flying* across the 5+ minute gap to the breakaway. He's gained back more than 3 minutes of the 8 he lost yesterday on La Toussuire. What a move! WOW!
If he loses this gamble, well, no one can ever say he didn't go down fighting. What courage!
and that in a heat wave too!!!
amazing!
these guys are *really* earning their money this year! (not that they didn't before then!)
It's a FANTASTIC race today. He's ridden himself into I think it's 3rd place at the moment, up from 11th after yesterday's disaster. And the yellow jersey group isn't responding!
Can he keep it up? He's hooked up with Sinkewitz, who was riding ahead alone in the lead. If Sinkewitz helps him -- and he might -- he can be back in yellow tonight. He's made up more than 7 minutes. Unbelievable!
It's so exciting today! Fabulous stage! I'm on the edge of my seat!
Holy cow!
He's got the virtual lead! He's gotten his 8 minutes back and more! Almost 9 minutes ahead of the yellow jersey and the peloton just isn't responding!
Wow, Landis is really showing the world what he's made of. Can he keep it up???
I can hardly sit still!
Landis will win the stage unless he crashes on the descent off the Col de Joux-Plane.
Who will be in yellow tonight?
It's so exciting!
Pretty amazing, isn't it?? I"m soooooooo excited and on the edge of my seat. Go Floyd!!
He won the stage and gained time on Sastre on the descent down the Col de Joux-Plane. Pereiro took a lot of risks on the descent and managed to keep the yellow jersey away from Sastre. What a fabulous race!
Landis is in 3rd place in the overall standings now and only 30 seconds off the race lead. He really showed the world what he was made of today. Everybody wrote him off yesterday but he refused to take a bad day lying down and look at him now. He can still win in Paris, especially since he's a better time-trialist than either of the men ahead of him in the standings. He very well could win the time trial and be in yellow in Paris. Edge-of-the-seat stuff for the avid cycling fan, this is absolutely fabulous.
This is edge of the seat time even for non-cycling fans.
My swedish DW hardly ever looks at sports (other than cross country skiing) but she has been watching the morning live, show the after lunch rerun and then last night till 11pm. Even the loom loading got put aside last night.
of course, the real reason is to play arm-chair tourist of the alps again and point out places she has been; the same reason i look forward to the finish tomorrow in Macon [the sister city].
She is identifying cyclists by name and know the status and shrieking some too.
and then in the afternoons, we walk across the street to the bike shop and do the trek scratching. So far we have both both power energy bars. I'm holding for the bike ride with Lance!
And whatever Landis does for the rest of the race, he has made his place in the tour de france history for this ride today.
Recall the manager who told him last week, "oh go ahead and let Pereiro go ahead; you can easily pass him by tomorrow; he's no problem" That will certainly go down in encouragement history along with "You're doing a helluva job, Brownie"
klh > Jenn/Jalynne wrote:
Gack!! Please include a SPOILER tag in the subject on a post like this. Here in the USofA, the coverage is in the morning and a lot of people will record it to watch when we get home from work. I'd prefer to not know what happens before I watch.
lal
Um, I'm in upstate NY myself? Honestly, it didn't even occur to me.
We sit up until after 2.00a.m. to watch. Landis was fantastic and really made up for the previous day, which was not a good one for him, quite out of character, he must have had something wrong. All that water he was taking must have helped him. Ruth, Sydney
And OMG, was that a stage for the ages or WHAT?!? Yowza, can't wait to hear all the pre-race talk from today's broadcast. Again I say, Yowza!
lal
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