Tour De France-Stage 16.. Tyler Hamilton Breaks Way Ahead of the Pack By Himself!

CBS News and BBC/OLN ^ | July 23, 2003 | Phil Liggett

[ewing]

Great story, the man riding with the broken collarbone right now has cut his overall deficit from the main riders in more than half from 9 minutes to 4.

What an epic 100th tour this has been!

[ewing]

I cant think Tyler would have much left after today but who knows!

[ewing]

[Coop]

Who's the dude wearing the ugly yellow shirt? Geez, what a fashion disaster!

[Catspaw]

The gap is narrowing from over 5 minutes to about 4:30, but what a marvelous achievement for Hamilton!

[jern]

Hamilton is doing great, hopefully he can take over 3rd.

[ewing]

Actually, I think the whole yellow thing started as a promotion for a car company and got out of hand..

[Catspaw]

You can tell where I'm from--I called the color the Basque fans were wearing "blaze orange" on an earlier Tour thread.

[ewing]

Every day something incredible happens, Tyler must think he will be out of the race if he doesnt attack today..at one time he was 3 minutes 45 seconds back out of the overall lead!

Im so glad that the IMAX film crew is getting all of this stuff on tape this year for a movie..

[TontoKowalski]

Who's the dude wearing the ugly yellow shirt? Geez, what a fashion disaster!

Coop, have you been watching Queer Eye for the Straight Guy?

[Coop]

You can tell where I'm from--I called the color the Basque fans were wearing "blaze orange"

Got me. Chicago? (fire, blaze)

[ewing]

USA Tyler Hamilton still 4 minutes 25 seconds ahead with 25km to go..

[Bikers4Bush]

I hope this kid can hold out. He's got serious guts.

[Catspaw]

Northeast Wisconsin--blaze orange is the color deer hunters wear during gun season.

[Catspaw]

I hope Hamilton takes this stage. Given his injuries, he's had a gutty performance for this entire Tour.

[ewing]

I believe Tyler had an injury before and rode out a tour of Italy grinding his teeth so badly because of the pain that he had to get them repaired afterwords.

[NittanyLion]

4:10 with 15 kms to go. The peleton is slowly reeling him back in, but he should finish at least 3:30 up...

[ewing]

Tyler deserves this win, smart move trying to catch the peleton sleeping the day after a rest and big mountain climb

[Coop]

Northeast Wisconsin--blaze orange is the color deer hunters wear during gun season.

Well, yeah. But how does that translate to WI? It's blaze orange all around the country, as far as I know. I hear the term here in VA all the time.

[Bikers4Bush]

Given what he's done since fracturing his collar bone it wouldn't surprise me.

[Catspaw]

Is 3:30 enough for Hamilton to take over 3rd?