From: Kevin Tarr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
There didn't seem to be much interest here, I thought. I watched the penultimate stage live, postponing a bike ride of my own until I saw the result. Then I recorded the same stage while I was work, just to see if I missed anything. I treid to record the final day, but messed something up.
I didn't get to watch any if it, live or otherwise, so I had to content myself with following via web coverage, because my wife's tolerance for sports on TV is measured in nanoseconds. :-)
I am glad he won the way he did. He said the same thing, but five straight of anything is great. So many bad things happened, the wrecks, his cold. But he survived.
The closeness certainly kept the race more interesting than his past few. I'm hoping he can return to his old form and win his sixth by a large margin.
Can anyone believe the sportsmanship shown when he wrecked the second time? I have not heard anyone say that Lance didn't show the same sportsmanship when Beloki crashed, but it was near the end going downhill. If Beloki was okay, he'd have only lost a minute at the most, if that. But I'm sure Lance knew, from his team radio, the he was seriously hurt.
Apparently, Lance similarly held up for Ullrich in a previous TdF:
"Jan is a good guy, he's an honorable guy," Armstrong said. "He probably didn't forget that when he crashed in 2001, in what appeared to be a serious crash, I told everyone: 'We can't race until he gets back up.' As we say in English: 'What goes around comes around,' and so I appreciate him doing that."
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