Tour de Georgia

[polsongrizz]

Any of the southern boys on here going to watch any of this race. Starts Tuesday and could be Armstrongs last yr in cycling. He is to give a news conference today announcing whether he will return or not. Wish I lived closer.

http://a104.g.akamai.net/7/104/1751/0001/www.lancearmstrong.com/lance/online2.nsf/images/TdF03Pro/$file/lance1.jpg

[Cocky]

I plan on being there. Several of the riders were in Calhoun County (home of Jacksonville State) this weekend for a crit and the Cheaha Challenge (103 mile ride). My son and I rode the Cheaha Challenge but not the 103 route. So I plan to carry him over for the Rome races and Bald Mountain.

I've seen Armstrong race before against Miquel Indurain which was very exciting.


http://www.neabc.org/cheaha/index.html

[Cocky]

I plan on being there. Several of the riders were in Calhoun County (home of Jacksonville State) this weekend for a crit and the Cheaha Challenge (103 mile ride). My son and I rode the Cheaha Challenge but not the 103 route. So I plan to carry him over for the Rome races and Bald Mountain.

I've seen Armstrong race before against Miquel Indurain which was very exciting.

http://www.neabc.org/cheaha/index.html

[Cocky]

Polson, we went to watch the tour Wednesday and saw a guy with a Griz hat on. Montana is represented in Rome, GA.

[Griz Grunt]

Tour de Georgia results

21 April 2005
© 2005 AFP

Results here on Wednesday in the second stage of the Tour de Georgia, 197.5km from Fayetteville to Rome, Georgia:



1. Peter Wrolich (AUT) Gerolsteiner, 2. Manuel Quinziato (ITA) Saunier Duval Prodir, 3. Lance Armstrong (USA) Discovery, 4. Ivan Fanelli (ITA) LPR, 5. Bobby Julich (USA) CSC, 6. Sven Krauss (GER) Gerolsteiner, 7. Tom Danielson (USA) Discovery, 8. David Canada (ESP) Saunier Duval-Prodir, 9. Juan Jose Haedo (ARG) Colavita, 10. Tim Larkin (USA) Kodak Gallery/Sierra Nevada



Overall standings

1. Robert Hunter (RSA) Phonak 10hr 34min 11sec, 2. Peter Wrolich (AUT) Gerolsteiner, 3. Manuel Quinziato (ITA) Suanier Duval-Prodir, 4. Benjamin Brooks (AUS) Jelly Belly/Pool Gel, 5. Lance Armstrong (USA) Discovery

afp05

[TexasTerror]

Discovery doesn't have their best team going in this one, as some of the big names are over in Europe still. Good to see Lance working with some of the younger guys though as Discovery looks for some new riders to take the place of Ekimov, who I assume is retiring after this year too, and Armstrong.

[polsongrizz]

Polson, we went to watch the tour Wednesday and saw a guy with a Griz hat on. Montana is represented in Rome, GA.
Wow, that is cool, thanks for the info.

[chattanoogamocs]

The mountain stages are just about 45 minutes from downtown Chattanooga...for the third straight year, I and some friends, will be camping out near the summitt at Cohutta...we stay up all night, drink too much, paint the road with our favorite riders names...just like the TdF without the airfare (and French people ;) )

Sad that this might be the last time to see Lance live, I raced against him once when we were both teenagers (back when he was a triathlete)...I kinda hope that even if he quits doing the TdF, he might still come back and do one more TdGa.

So are there some cycling fans on here? I do a daily TdF article during the race...add in pics, do history of each stage, teach some strategy, etc...if there are some people on here with an interest, I would be happy to copy the reports on here too.

[chattanoogamocs]

by the by...top 10 results from today's time trial in rome

1 15 Floyd Landis Phonak USA 39'58"09
2 23 Dave Zabriskie Team CSC USA 40'17"06
3 61 Chris Baldwin Navigators USA 40'20"03
4 21 Bobby Julich Team CSC USA 40'26"00
5 65 Nathan O'Neill Navigators AUS 40'41"09
6 54 Levi Leipheimer Gerolsteiner USA 40'48"56
7 5 Tom Danielson Discovery USA 40'58"
8 6 Viatcheslav Ekimov Discovery RUS 41'19"78
9 1 Lance Armstrong Discovery USA 41'44"87
10 25 Brian Vanborg Team CSC DEN 41'45"41

[polsongrizz]

Thanks for the update.

[Cocky]

Count me as a fan. I raced against Malcolm Elliott one time and he only beat me by about 3 hours in a 100 miles. The bad part was he started about 30 minutes after everyone else and still won the race. The good part was he either won a stage in the Tour or had top finish that year.