Quote Originally Posted by Zen View Post
What's really amazing about Andy is that at one point he was 45 seconds back and in the end only 8 seconds from Berto.
Well actually, he was 31 seconds ahead overall to start, and ended up 8 seconds behind. From my accounting, that means he lost 39 seconds. So if he was 45 seconds behind Alberto on the climb/descent today, that would really mean that the biggest gap was 14 seconds overall (and he ended up 8 seconds behind, so he did make up some lost time), since he started with a 31 second lead. You make it sound like he made up 37 seconds, which he did not. He actually lost 39 seconds.

I like Andy alot, and would love to see him win the whole thing, but Alberto is a professional and very talented. You've got to give him credit.

As for Lance...is this Lance racing clean? With such a dramatic decline, that's just about all I can think of to explain it. Kindof puts a damper on the all that Lance-Alberto hype that was stuffed down or throats at the beginning of this. I hope it's not true, but I see no other explanation, unless he just totally slacked and ate cake and ice cream instead of training.