It was a sad day yesterday for the Basque Country, the two riders that had the highest chances of being on the podium fell prey to a trecherous stage.
Now Iban Mayo and Haimar Zubeldia are too far behind to be a treath to Jan Ullrich or to Lance Armstrong.
But there is still plenty of Tour for both of them to ridicule the Texan on stages that used to be his specialty.
And there is always next year, and Joseba Beloki, Iban Mayo and Haimar Zubeldia are young enough to give us some thrills in the Tour for years to come.
Here is a note that appeared today at Berria:
Now Iban Mayo and Haimar Zubeldia are too far behind to be a treath to Jan Ullrich or to Lance Armstrong.
But there is still plenty of Tour for both of them to ridicule the Texan on stages that used to be his specialty.
And there is always next year, and Joseba Beloki, Iban Mayo and Haimar Zubeldia are young enough to give us some thrills in the Tour for years to come.
Here is a note that appeared today at Berria:
Euskaltel’s Waterloo
Mayo and Zubeldia have said goodbye to the podium. Mayo suffered a fall and Zubeldia got held up on the cobblestone section and lost 3.48. The stage was won by Jean-Patrick Nazon
Andoni Urbistondo
June 18, 1815. The end of the Battle of Waterloo. The British under Wellington and the Prussians under von Blücher and von Bulow defeated the French army led by Napoleon. It marked the end of the Napoleonic Empire. July 6, 2004 did not see the end of an empire, because there wasn’t one, but it did see the shattering of the dreams of nine cyclists and a team, on whom a country had pinned its hopes. Until now Waterloo has been a milestone in the history of Europe. From now on it will be an episode in the black history of the Euskaltel-Euskadi team. Haimar Zubeldia and Iban Mayo, the two leaders of the team, said goodbye to the Tour de France, to the podium, during the stage which set off from that Belgian town.
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