[Ready4Freddy]

iguana verde may have alluded to it in his post #50, but help me out here - I seem to remember Lance being at least 10 min down in 2000 or 2001, as they approached the Pyrenees. Seems like the Tour was going counter-clockwise that year as well. Anyway, Lance pulled a MONSTER climb on the first Pyrenees stage, and lept into the yellow jersey. Think he took 2nd in the stage to a bona-fide mountain goat, but he put major time on his GC competition, and never looked back.

Does anyone remember this even vaguely as I described it? What year / what mountain? luv2ski seems to have a great memory for such things, help us out here!! ;>)

Theoretically, a rider could be more than 10 min back at this point and still make it up but practically, that doesn't happen.

[luv2ski]

Sorry, I was offline most of the day yesterday. I will be happy to see if I can dig up form info, though. I don't specifically remember those 2 stages. It all runs together after a while! Remember the year that Phi and Paul were having a cow b/c Lance looked sick and then all of a sudden he took off like a shot? That was amazing! No wonder he drove the rest of the field crazy!