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Originally posted by Ronn_Bman:
No matter how well thought of this other guy is in the sport, the idea that Lance chasing him down over this dispute seems silly. It was a race, of course he chased him down, and then passed him. Now maybe this hyphenated version of the article I saw this morning is just worded poorly. I can understand that.
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Like I said above, it's very difficult to explain - and very hard to understand to any outsiders who only see 3 minute summaries of the stages on CNN (or something along those lines
). But just trust me that there was no reason whatsoever for Armstrong to chase Simeoni like he did for any ranking-related reasons - Armstrong getting away from the pack in a mountain-less stage is like holding a red flag in front of a raging bull, and it would have taken the pack only relatively little difficulty to catch up with Lance.
No, it was clear from the moment I heard about it on the radio (tv broadcast had yet to begin, though footage exists and was shown later on), that this had nothing to do with Lance's interests in the overall ranking and everything with Simeoni's feud with Armstrong; as that has been reported about again and again in the previous weeks. We didn't even need Simeoni's words in the article you posted to figure out what
that was all about.
[ 07-30-2004, 05:37 AM: Message edited by: Grojlach ]