Tour de France 2004

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Has the holder of the Yellow Jersey ever lost the tour on the Champs Elysees last stage?

― Neville Thompson, Thursday, 22 July 2004 11:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Yep they certainly have. The last time was when Laurent Fignon lost the jersey to Greg Lemond in 1987. The last stage that year was a time trial on the Champs Elysees. Lemond ended up the winner of the Tour by 8 seconds. Fignon never really got over it.

Not sure about previous instances though.

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 22 July 2004 11:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Good lord, this is one crazy statto page

http://www.angelfire.com/realm/cvccbikers/tour/top_ten.html

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 22 July 2004 11:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Nuts. I was wrong about the year - looks like it was 1989.

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 22 July 2004 11:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Fignon never really got over it.

He seems to assert that HE'S over it, but nobody else is. Nobody talks about his two authoritative Tour wins.

Next up on SportsTalk, Billy Buckner!

― Hunter (Hunter), Thursday, 22 July 2004 12:47 (twenty-one years ago)

that was an unusual (and awesome, tho i'm mad at lemond right now)thing for a last day. it's usually over by then and it's a procession with a sprint

― duke champs-, Thursday, 22 July 2004 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I guess it's not totally unusual that things are sorted out in the last time-trial (take last year for instance and Ullrich crashing out when he *might* have really pushed things close). What was pretty unusual that year was that the last TT was on the final stage into Paris.

Hunter, I'll bite: who the feck is Billy Buckner?

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 23 July 2004 07:39 (twenty-one years ago)

noone really calls him billy. cept maybe mookie wilson.

― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 23 July 2004 07:48 (twenty-one years ago)

http://slate.msn.com/id/2104322/

"...characterizing him as 'arrogant, cold, machine-like.'..."

"...described the U.S Postal Service team's effort as 'a typically American business that scorns humanity.' It went on to chide the cancer survivor: 'Mankind is not fond of those who gorge themselves on success without suffering and without showing compassion for their fellows.'..."

Call me a typical American, but I very much like the idea of a machine-like, merciless Lance. Fuck yeah, he's a machine.

― Major McTwitch (kenan), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)

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