All is right with the world
Lance Armstrong is back in the yellow jersey. (Read about it here and here; there's a handy little online guidehere if you like Flash animation.)
That Armstrong has the yellow isn't a surprise. Discovery didn't ride the team time trial as well as it wanted, but it was good enough to give Armstrong the lead. (It didn't hurt Lance that David Zabriske, the American rider for a Danish team who had led the first three stages, crashed late in the stage.)
Here's the real stunning fact: The Discovery team set a team time trial record by averaging 35.5 mph. (It took 'em about 1 hour 10 mins to go 42 miles.)
Anyone who wants to break out the old "They're only riding a bike" meme can just shut it now. Anyone think they can keep up 35 mph for just a mile on a bike? C'mon, I dare you. Trust me: It's not easy.
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I don't think I could go 35 miles per YEAR on a bike! Lance is a bad man, for sure.
Posted on July 5, 2005 10:14 PM