Franco-American conspiracy theory

Benjamin Weiner

No, not as in Franco-American meatballs. LANCE gives up the
maillot jaune to the French champion and a breakaway with
riders on three French teams gains time. Sandy Casar might
yet take yellow and hang on for a while. Where's the
conspiracy? Guess whose team just bought cheap insurance
against getting woken up at 3 am by a French police raid.
Bruyneel has outsmarted Jan, Tyler and Lafferty once again.

Chris

"Benjamin Weiner" <bjw@mambo.ucolick.org> wrote in message
news:40edf0b0$1@darkstar...
> No, not as in Franco-American meatballs. LANCE gives up
> the maillot jaune to the French champion and a breakaway
> with riders on three French teams gains time. Sandy Casar
> might yet take yellow and hang on for a while. Where's
> the conspiracy? Guess whose team just bought cheap
> insurance against getting woken up at 3 am by a French
> police raid. Bruyneel has outsmarted Jan, Tyler and
> Lafferty once again.

Nice try, I like the way you pay attention except that I
don't think the investigators in France give a hoot who has
the jersey. Allowing the host to have a few (very few)
crumbs is just courtesy. Nothing really to be gained
IMO. ASO *might* appreciate it but they don't have any
influence over the investigation unless they won't to
hurt someone. I really doubt they can make anyone's
life any easier though.

Matabala

Exactly right, Postal wasn't about to let just anyone get
away in a break yesterday and take the yellow jersey.
Another calculated move by Bruyneel and probably Lance
himself. Who better than the up-and-coming, personable,
young star of French cycling? Looks like a winning move for
organizers, sponsers, French TV and Postal who score brownie
points for their "gesture" towards the home-team.

"Benjamin Weiner" <bjw@mambo.ucolick.org> wrote in message
news:40edf0b0$1@darkstar...
> No, not as in Franco-American meatballs. LANCE gives up
> the maillot jaune to the French champion and a breakaway
> with riders on three French teams gains time. Sandy Casar
> might yet take yellow and hang on for a while. Where's
> the conspiracy? Guess whose team just bought cheap
> insurance against getting woken up at 3 am by a French
> police raid. Bruyneel has outsmarted Jan, Tyler and
> Lafferty once again.

Bob

"matabala" <matabala@wanadoo.fr> wrote in message
news:cclm1o$et5$1@news-reader5.wanadoo.fr...
> Exactly right, Postal wasn't about to let just anyone get
> away in a break yesterday and take the yellow jersey.
> Another calculated move by Bruyneel and probably Lance
> himself. Who better than the up-and-coming,
personable,
> young star of French cycling? Looks like a winning move
> for organizers, sponsers, French TV and Postal who score
> brownie points for their
"gesture"
> towards the home-team.

Bruyneel cunningly worked to get the weather to cooperate in
order to ensure success but, alas, some other manager with
better connections (devious bastard) tried to prevent
Postal's masterful plan. Yet, in the end, even inclement
conditions could not derail such wily design. Later, Lance
innocently suggested: "We'll do better next time. We'll get
it completely right and deliver, even if only for the sake
of better TV".