1. Rebellin 2. Boogerd 3. Bettini

leif_ericson

Boogerd should have put the pressure up the whole climb, instead
of a sprint.



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Tom Kunich

"leif_ericson" <usenet-forum@cyclingforums.com> wrote in message
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> Boogerd should have put the pressure up the whole climb, instead
> of a sprint.

Against Rebellin it wouldn't have made any difference. Davide is a classier
rider than Boogerd. The funny thing is that it's taken him so long to make a
big win.

Tuschinski

Tom Kunich wrote:
> Against Rebellin it wouldn't have made any difference. Davide is a
> classier rider than Boogerd. The funny thing is that it's taken him so
> long to make a big win.



Thats debatable if you look at the palmares. I would say they are pretty
close in class. Boogerd has surprised me with his consistency and by
making the top ten of UCI. I never believed in him when he was a younger
Pro, not even when he won a TdF stage by dropping that Spanish time-
trial specialist (god... my memory fails, he won a vuelta, rode for
Banesto and Once... HELP).

On Boogerd's sprinting: He isn't that slow at all. Uphill he is one of
the faster sprinters and he actually managed to end up second in the
Amstel Gold Race sprint Zabel won. Sure, Rebellin is faster, but Boogerd
isn't really a "Strijkijzer" (anti-sprinter)



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Sonarrat

Tuschinski <usenet-forum@cyclingforums.com> wrote in message news:<YGthc.55951$E_.39435@fe22.usenetserver.com>...

> Tom Kunich wrote:

> > Against Rebellin it wouldn't have made any difference. Davide is a
> > classier rider than Boogerd. The funny thing is that it's taken him so
> > long to make a big win.
>
> Thats debatable if you look at the palmares. I would say they are pretty
> close in class. Boogerd has surprised me with his consistency and by
> making the top ten of UCI. I never believed in him when he was a younger
> Pro, not even when he won a TdF stage by dropping that Spanish time-
> trial specialist (god... my memory fails, he won a vuelta, rode for
> Banesto and Once... HELP).

Abraham Olano? BTW, Boogerd is just under 6'0 and he weighs somewhere
around 140 lb, if the OLN TdF listing was to be believed. That might
explain some things.

-Sonarrat.

Tuschinski

Sonarrat wrote:
> Abraham Olano? BTW, Boogerd is just under 6'0 and he weighs somewhere
> around 140 lb, if the OLN TdF listing was to be believed. That might
> explain some things.
> -Sonarrat.



Not Olano, but in 1996 he dropped Melchior Mauri Prat in a dangerous
final part of the stage to Aix le bains



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