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To: Ready4Freddy
LOL. It seems like everybody's noticing they can't seem to stay upright. Matthew Lloyd from Davitamon-Lotto was in Armstrong's group on the last stage and witnessed that last crash.:

"Unfortunately, Lance crashed, there were again lots of crashes today," he said post-race. "Euskaltel really needs to learn how to ride bikes. It's just shocking. I don't know whether that's controversial or not, but I don't care. They've probably caused every crash in this race... It's really unfortunate for Lance because he wanted to finish this Tour de France in style, and now..."

LOL, he didn't mince words. And wouldn't ya know it, Euskaltel had yet another huge crash this morning!

497 posted on 07/13/2010 12:40:36 PM PDT by leilani
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To: leilani
Evidently Euskatel has had the reputation for crashing for a while - and some people really do suspect they do it on purpose:

"If you see an orange jersey near the front during a sprint finish, you just know [a crash] is coming...It looked like he was trying to crash and finally did on the third or fourth attempt."

(from cyclebanter.com circa 2009)

It would be funny except these guys are taking other riders down to the pavement with them.

498 posted on 07/13/2010 12:57:01 PM PDT by leilani
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