Blood Bag Monday. Common expression among cycling fans. Denotes the usual Tour de France rest days that always fall on monday where the teams go for a short ride, then stay in the hotel quietly transfusing blood bags.
Lance always improves massively after those days. Remember last year? Dropped like a stone the day before, right with Contador the next day.
And his team mates all got miserably dropped today, and will be up front with Armstrong on Tuesday, most likely...
Virenque now on eurosport, explaining it's just because Armstrong didn't have enough racing days this year, just like his team mates. I guess one more day will change everything.
Pretty much, yeah. Remember the 2005 Tour? They all got dropped extremely early and Armstrong had a hell of a time keeping up with a peloton of 30 people.
Then the rest day and.....well, in the words of Jonathan Vaughters:
it's why they all got dropped on stage 9 - no refill yet - then on the rest day - boom 800ml of packed cells
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"I love him, I think he's great. He's transformed the sport in so many ways. Every person in cycling has benefitted from Lance Armstrong, perhaps not financially but in some sense" - Bradley Wiggins on Lance Armstrong
Unable to watch it on anything other than a terrible stream with no sound.
So, would that be Luis Leon or Samuel Sánchez?
LL.
You're right. I'm going to start referring to the two Sánchez as Samuel and LL
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"I love him, I think he's great. He's transformed the sport in so many ways. Every person in cycling has benefitted from Lance Armstrong, perhaps not financially but in some sense" - Bradley Wiggins on Lance Armstrong
I'd like to point out that Giro stage winner Damien Monier wasn't dropped and is still there.
That is all.
The preceding post is ISSO 9001 certified
"I love him, I think he's great. He's transformed the sport in so many ways. Every person in cycling has benefitted from Lance Armstrong, perhaps not financially but in some sense" - Bradley Wiggins on Lance Armstrong
"I love him, I think he's great. He's transformed the sport in so many ways. Every person in cycling has benefitted from Lance Armstrong, perhaps not financially but in some sense" - Bradley Wiggins on Lance Armstrong
