Ahh yeah. So I am in Palo Alto Cycle the other day, just checking out the local store (which was right on the prologue course) & and who do I see? Mario flip'n Cippolini. Dude was shopping (note the man bag!!) for cold/wet weather clothing to race in! I am serious, we saw him wearing a vest that he was trying on in the store. Dude is tall. Taller than I am. He also got third (behind Boonen & some other dude) a few days later.
Sweeping through a corner in downtown Santa Rosa, thousands of people line the roads hoping to get a closer look at their favorite elite cyclist. And there were a ton of the best cyclist in the world on hand at the ATOC. Boonen, Cipo, Bettini, Leipheimer, Millar, Friere, Cancellara etc.
George Hincapie ate shit big time less than 5 feet from me. I was watching Bettini come out of the tunnel in full rainbow treatment, his face gnarled in suffering and pain as he was firing at 35 mph. As the peleton races by, it creates a calm in the air before blasting you with a sudden gust of wind. Just as the calm before the storm started settling in, I hear a "ping!" and a tree fell in the forest of lycra. Clad in a High Road kit it did not cross my mind that this tall slender figure was George. CRAZY. Dude slid on his shoulder for 5 feet, Joklies broken in pieces and his DA lever mangled and twisted. The Mavic neutral support guy took like 30 seconds to get his chain back on his bike & it took everything I had to not do it for him.
With only 300 meters to the finish, George lost no time & would win the final stage of the race a few days later.
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OOohhh, he's like a lion. RArarararrrrrrrrr!!! What do you think he has in his man sack? Hair gel, a brush, Polo cologne, I-phone, expensive lotion, colored contacs, lip gloss....?
Those are the contents of my man purse!! Except for the the hair gel of course.
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