"I've
never seen so many tired big names in the Tour de France. These fellows
have all tried and have been destroyed" Phil Liggett, July 30, 2000
(Insert Lyndale road race for TdF)
"Another
perfect day of racing in Lyndale if your name is Barten. The wind and
temperature made these men challenge the course that broke lesser men, and of
these there are some lesser men." Ed Matthiesen, July 31, 2012
"Riding
like the wind, Hinault is producing an attack never seen since the Halycon days
of Eddie Merckx, the legendary Belgian who make a habit of achieving the
impossible. LeMond knows now that his friend at the dinner table is his
rival on the road." Phil Liggett, 1986 TdF (Insert any name
below with Hinault and any other name below with LeMond.)
"He
looked at the gages on the power plant and saw that the engine could deliver no
more.” Mental thought when that devil-man of a rider Barten had
crept into Matthiesen’s slip stream." Matthiesen 200m from the finish,
July 31, 2012, Lyndale road race.
Sprint 1st
2nd 3rd
1 JC
JS CG
2 JB
JC EM
3 JC
JS JB
4 CG
JB JC
5 JB
JS JC
Total
Sprint Points
JC 10
JS 6
JB 9
CG 4
EM 1
Finish Points
John
Barten 10
Ed
Matthiesen 9
Craig
Gustafson 8
John
Carline 7
Jim
Smith 6
Bob 5
"Look
at them! They're like goldfish out there!" Phil Liggett
referring to heavy breathing riders in the 2000TdF.
"One
by one these tired old rags from the midwest fell into the hell of exhaustion
and collapsed on the tarmac of Highway 6." E. Matthiesen, July 31,
2012
"The
history of the Tour De France was chiseled into these walls of rock by men
willing to ask more of themselves knowing that this time for some, the answers
from their bodies would be ...no more." Phil Liggett, 1987 TdF
“This
was harder than it looked.” E. Matthiesen, 2012 Rottweeler races, said
numerous times
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