Sunday, September 26, 2004

Sorry for the delay, but Heras won

Roberto Heras won his 3rd Vuelta a Espana (I'm using windows, so I don't know how to put the tilde over the n) today, Sunday, 26 September 2004. The first was in 2000 when he was on the Spanish Kelme team, then 2003 on US Postal, and now 2004 on Spanish team Liberty Seguros.

The race came down to the final time trial, as it has on so many occasions in this race. Heras is not a good time trialist, but he still won the Vuelta taking third in the TT. Perez, not a bad challenger for the overall lead, won the stage, with Heras third.

Perez


Floyd Landis abandoned the race, so you won't see his name in the standings, as you would expect.

The ever-present Erik Zabel took the points jersey, as he has done many times in the past.



The final top finishers:

Final overall standings
1. Roberto Heras (Sp), Liberty Seguros, 77:42:46
2. Santiago Perez (Sp), Phonak, at 0:30
3. Francisco Mancebo (Sp), Illes Balears-Banesto, 2:13
4. Alejandro Valverde (Sp), Kelme, 3:30
5. Carlos Garcia Quesada (Sp), Kelme, 7:44
6. Carlos Sastre (Sp), CSC, 8:11
7. Isidro Nozal (Sp), Liberty Seguros, 8:32
8. Angel Gomez (Sp), Paternina, 13:08
9. Luis Perez (Sp), Cofidis, 13:24
10. David Blanco (Sp), Kelme, 15:15



Something big about your favorite guy from Marblehead, Massachusetts has accured. Tyler Hamilton has been accused of taking someone else's blood, but there is no evidence for that, and he says he'll race again, and his wife, Haven has sent a letter to all his fans trying to pursuade people of his innocence because they didn't want to even have their dog get a blood transplant because of risks it has. Haven also says in her letter that the reason Tyler quit the Tour this year without more of a fight is because he remebered how long it took to recover from last year's edition with his broken collarbone.

This is the season for bike shows, with major ones being the Eurobike in Friedrichshafen, Germany; EICMA in Milan, Italy; International Cycle Show in Islington, England; Interbike in Las Vegas, etc.
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  1. GlenSeptember 28, 2004 2:35 PM

    I am sorry to hear that Floyd didn't finish. What’s up with that?

    This thing with Tyler is interesting. In some of the news that I have read, I wonder if technology has advanced more than the rules have kept up. If they can now detect certain practices, they should be explicit about whether the rules and the practices in the lab keep up with the technology. Don’t misinterpret this and think I am for doping. I am not.

    I am back in Chicago today after two days in Indianapolis. Cindi comes tomorrow.

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