*** OFFICIAL Lance in France with Tight Pants thread ***

[Arnfinn Madsen]

Thanks, and congrats on Lance!

Next years tour will be incredibly exciting since Ullrich is a clearly better time trial rider than his challengers (Basso, Vinokourov, Rasmussen etc.). Thus he will be ahead of them when it gets into the mountains. He is not the best climber but still a very good climber so expect a lot of attacks at him and him battling with all he has, to defend it.

[Patrick del Poker Grande]

I'm calling Basso. He's improving in the time trials and we've seen what he can do in the mountains. Oh yeah and he's been second the last two years...

I can't believe how Rasmussen completely just fell apart on the time trial. It's really too bad. It was expected that Jan would pass him anyway, but the way he went out was just sad.