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87.Tour de France Das Tour-Tagebuch von Marcel Wüst
Lesen Sie bei RADSPORT-NEWS.COM das
Tour-Tagebuch des Festina-Profis. Marcel meldet sich
täglich per E-Mail und schreibt in Englisch für seine
internationale Fangemeinde.
Mon Jul 17 19:42:47 2000 hi everyone in my adress book, and hi all enjoying my diary on the internet, well the tour is over 4 me as U all know, and typing this lines I'm back home in germany after I enjoyed a 3 day holiday with my family in the south of france...with all mobile phones switched off and no online connection...IT WAS GREAT!! so I left the tour after my team doctor insisted that a rider with fever and bronchitis is better off the bike then on it...it was hard to listen but finally the intelligence won the fight agains the little devil saying: " go to paris man, you'll make it and stuff" but I'm sure with the sickness in my body I wouls have lasted only 2 or 3 more days anyway. so now I get ready for the vuelta in late august...motivation is there for two things: doing well and doing another diary... thanx all 4 your support during the hard days!!! until the vuelta...au revoir and hasta la vista baby mw Tue Jul 11 23:16:41 2000 lucky no one attacked at the start...I would have been gone 4ever...2 kom's in the first 20km then an attack of erik dekker from "robo-bank"(yes robo like robo-cop not rabo... did U know that rabo is spanish for cock??) followed by some kelme guy and that was the race. tempo in the bunch, myself suffering like hell and when banesto picked it up in the cross wind @ 40km to go I lasted about 2...then on my own with pascal lino who waited 4 me at 15km to go. horrible day, still really sick and definitely NOT riding on tomorrows restday. just looking foreward to see my family and getting a bit of health back...hope this is enough to get me over ventoux and the alps.well, once started whining: I've got an infected eye as well from the shitty weather and all the stuff getting in my eyes all day. one thing is is for sure and it is quite a big statement: "now after being in the tour (finally) my favourite race is still the vuelta espagna" there is too many reasons to type them down for you but anyway, the tour is the biggest thing if U look at the media attention you get, and the biggest thing in many other thing...but remember: bigger is not always better and sometimes size does not matter. wish me a good recovery!!! MW Mon Jul 10 22:46:14 2000 prick of a day!! high mountains low temperatures and lots and lots of rain. my health is wrecked, can't breathe, can't talk and I'm coughing like whatever is the worst thing coughing in this world...and sure todays weather did not help. I'm getting hot and cold sweats and hope I don't get fever overnite. we made it b4 the time cut but I don't know if I should be happy about it, we'll see tomorrow how it goes. 220km, all really hilly and more rain. I really want to make it to the restday. it's gonna be great to hang out with the family and not ride at all...supposed to be nice weather there too. I've been typing way to much already for the factor of fuckedness I'm at...nite mw PS I think i was rite to say b4 the tour: "lance will win the tour, no one can beat him..." good onyer champ, go 4 it the tour is yours!! Sun Jul 9 22:23:20 2000 here we are still in the gutter... today sucked big time for various reasons: first lucky that this is not a voice diary...I've lost mine completely after the race, big swallen throat and when I talk I sound like a bad guy in a cartoon. I lost the green jersey by finishing 22nd in the sprint...thanx tour de france to let us go through 2 really tight roundabouts in the last 1 1/2 km... I predicted there will be a crash this morning... and it happened just millimeters away fom my front wheel. I lost zabels wheel and no way to move up again in the last bit...bummer but it was nice to have the green for at least 2 days...and the tour is not over yet. thanx robbie to take the points of him in the intermediate sprint. then there was my team chasing all day into the headwind and not beinf able finish it off nicely is the biggest bummer for me, but shit happens in cycling also. next bad news is the weather forcast 4 tomorrow: cold and rain all day, I hope the tour wheather report is as wrong as ususal, because rite now taping this the sky is really blue and it seems to be the nicest day...we'll see tomorrow, but there is nothing worse than shit wheather in the mountains. the pestso of the day goes again to the "societe du tour" for the shitty finish today...there were many wide straight roads to be taken in the end... I wonder why this guys have ex riders in there? but none of them has been a sprinter really. the only good thing about today was the start...we took off really easy, and most of us really appreciated it. the hotel we stay in wsa build by some famous architect...so it's pretty ugly and there is way to much furniture in the room, but at least the restaurant was good and fast... I hope not to wake up my room mate beloki tonite with my really bad cough, I might get a room by myself if I don't feel way better tomorrow. wish all of us good weather for the first big day in the mountains and let the grupetto be big and early... If U don't get anything tomorrow I might be to stuffed, but I try to drop at least a few lines mw
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Sprintstar Marcel Wüst aus Köln ist der 
Sat Jul 8 19:30:04 2000
first sorry for not being able to do day 6 and 7.
on day 6 we were in a chateau hotel, the best
hotel I've ever seen in france, but I could not
be bothered to unscrew the phone to get online,
and yesterday I was just to stuffed to even get
the computer out of the bag.
grovel with crosswinds and rain all day yesterday,
and totop it off a throat infection and blocked
sinus...I still finished 2nd of the stage and
took the green jersey. but when my team asked if
I want them to ride to bring back the lonely
breahaway rider I said no because I felt so bad...
turned out to be a bummer but that's life. so
after 11 hours of sleep I woke up as a new person
this morning. feeling better in the throat after
gargeling some horrible stuff every 2 hours, but
at least it worked. today was unbelieveble: koes
moorenhout from farm frites attacked at the km 0
sign, and it looks like he eliminated his teammate
jans koerts. robbie and me looked for jans all day
but he never made it back to the bunch. I hope
he's not eliminated but even if he's not koes is
"the pestoso of the day".
the rest of the stage was super fast with a break
going away after 70km or so. the went superslow
4 a while until the "happy family" (mercatoneu uno)
picked it up and put it in the gutter 4 the last
100km.
I won the bunch sprint to secure the green jersey...
this is actually the only reason doing it because
as all real sprinters I think it sucks to sprint
4 12th place.
typing this few lines my phone rang 6 times...I
picked it up 3 times and the best conversation was
the one I had with my son alexander, giving me
kisses and telling me all the things he did today..
..because he's only 22 month old there was a lot of
guessing from my side but I think I've got it rite...
can't wait for the restday next week when I see him
and my wife...now I get a rub and probably to diner
b4 9pm tonite...
GREEN IS THE COLOUR!!
mw
Wed Jul 5 23:13:33 2000
a dream came true...
I WON !!! after winning 12 times in the vuelta
and one stage in the giro it finally happend. In
the sprint I kicked'em all to finish of the nice
work of the whole festina team. they went flat
out from 30km to go to catch the leftovers of
the break away on the last straight. Thanx alot
guys, that was awesome.
same thing as yesterday...to the hotel really
late, diner at 9:45 after massage, getting some
fresh air on the hotel carpark with the boyz and
now taping another short report...
winning is great and in a big tour it's even
better...but with all the stuff happening after
it's always late and U always get short reports...
and in the mountains I might be to stuffed to
write much...
shit happens
mw
Tue Jul 4 23:18:47 2000
hello from "la bretagne" where it never rains when
U ask the people who live here and where it always
rains when I'm here...so far so good. we got 6th
in the ttt, alrite but not super happy. it was a
big headwind so it was easier to recover in the
wheels. it was still hard enough though.
after I got to the podium 4 the mountains jersey
we had a tranfer of 90km to the hotel, then lots
of phone calls, shower massage and diner at 9:15.
coffee at a bar across the street with the spanish
part of the team and now back in my room and almost
11 o'clock so that's basiclly all U get...
the pestoso of the day was some guy after the
finish who asked me 5 times if he could have my hat,
and five times I told him nicely that he could not...
nicely until he started asking if I would give him
the glasses and gloves...I told him to F#$% OFF
that was my day...good nite
mw
Mon Jul 3 23:00:56 2000
it's already late so today a short verson...
I was 2nd...(first loser!) bummer, but still felt
great, so my day will come. pestoso of the day is
the "societe du tour " to make us get into nantes
on the smallest roads possible, full with
roundabouts and little concrete things in the
middle of the road....no wonder there was the crash
in the final. they should take a look across the
border...no stuff like this in the 
Sat Jul 1 22:59:04 2000
myself the kom jersey of the tour de france...
sounds like a joke but it's not. I was thinking
of it since I first saw the climb of the time
trial. 1km, not too steep, so I started easy on
my normal bike and on the bottom I began what
was one of the longest sprints in my career.
the best time from bottom to top ( 1:19min.)
was what they took to give the first kom jersey
in the tour...and they gave it to me...after
being leader in the vuelta last year this was
one of the best days in my career...and as
there are no mountains until wednesday I'll
keep it at least 4 more days!! compared to
this all the rest happening fades into
insignificance...x-cept dave millar pulling
the tt of his life out of his giro helmet
to take yellow...good onya mate..we need to
take a photo together tomorrow...
b4 the start of the tt I listened to the
" the rocky story" all the music of the famous
movies...the right thing to get U going before
a time trial and typing this I've got "waiting
for the sun" of the doors in the cd player.
my thought of the day: "....................."
l just could not think anything when they told
me I had the jersey...
wish me luck for tomorrow, until then
mw
Sat Jul 1 08:45:03 2000
hi all,
this friday sucked...
12:00 MEETING WITH THE TOUR DIRECTORS!!
nothing really new, just enough time wasted that
training was not really possible before. Because
the team presentation started @ 4:00 we decided
to go for another little ride in the late
afternoon. we did 3 more laps of the prologue
course and it's bloody hard with false flats and
a cross head wind on the last 5km. Not a prologue,
but a time trial where most of the sprinters will
lose the chance to wear yellow in the first week.
the pestoso of the day will be nominated from on
tomorrow, and I know already who it's gonna be....
at the massage it was chopi's (my masseurs
nickname!) pick for the cd and we ended up
listening to ABBA gold....
mw