issoisso wrote:
It wasn't just a bad day. He was dropped on the climb yesterday when the peloton still had about 30 people.

I should add that, true to his words, he does seem slimmer than he's ever seemed at this time of year. He doesn't seem to have any extra weight at all. Which is awful news for him. If he's this bad when he's slim and fit, he can't possibly be that much better when he gets more training and racing and....other things....under his belt.

hondo wrote:
No matter how much you envy this man, he is going shut your mouth in the Tour de France.

Deadpool wrote:


Please stay around until July, I can't wait to see your reaction when Lance bombs in the Pyrenees.

mb2612 wrote:
Bos wins the final stage of Murcia, Brown 2nd

issoisso wrote:


No waiting for July with me. It's already hilarious that he's enough of a fanboy to think we actually envy someone like Armstrong

ruben wrote:


1. Theo Bos (Cervélo) 2.43:35
2. Graeme Brown (Rabobank) m.t.
3. Daniel Schorn (Team NetApp) m.t.
4. Valentin Iglinskiy (Astana) m.t.
5. Henning Bommel (Selección alemana) m.t.
6. Russel Downing (Team Sky) m.t.
7. Roger Kluge (Team Milram) m.t.
8. Andreas Schillinger (Team NetApp) m.t.
9. Fco. Manuel Antón (Selección española) m.t.
10. Ian Wilkinson (Endura Racing) m.t.

If only Crue had kept the sprint ratings I gave Bos, there would never be a problem

Now Bos needs to be updated again in the next DB *sigh*

hondo wrote:


He's somebody, you're a nobody. Famous people always have haters, so it's not a big surprise. Tbh. I'm sure he doesn't care himself either

issoisso wrote:


Lance's mental demons would make a couple of books. oh wait, they have.

I have none of those issues. I'm mentally sane. In a nutshell, he cannot be happy without making others feel like shit and destroying them in competition. Since he's never going to be able to do that again he's F****.

As for fame, it's an awful thing. It takes away most of your freedom while giving you nothing good.

I have all I want in life, and he's a bit screwed.
So please, do keep telling me that I envy him :lol

Oh fanboys. You're all so ridiculous. You really can't even begin to think logically

No athlete was coddled more than Jordan, and no athlete had a bigger disparity between "public image" and "what he was actually like." Hell, for his entire career, Sam Smith was the only journalist with the testicular fortitude to call him out.

After the speech, some readers asked me why I didn't write about it. The truth is, I wrote an extended section in my book about him -- not his career as much as his force of personality, and how that shaped everything that happened for him for better and worse. He wasn't a great guy by any stretch, just a bloodthirsty competitor who cared only about ruining everything in his path. That's it. That's what fueled him. At the time, we glorified him for that one quality because we love that stuff. How many times did you hear MJ gushingly described by an announcer as a "killer" over the years? A hundred? A thousand? That's not a switch you turn on and off -- when you're wired to conquer everybody, that doesn't just stop. And so the same qualities that made him the greatest basketball player ever also led to that speech. The man fueled himself with petty BS for 20 solid years, turned molehills into mountains and never stopped searching for an edge. That's who Michael Jordan was. I wasn't remotely surprised by what happened at the Hall of Fame banquet. Neither was anyone who knew him or played with him. That much, we can all agree on.

rjc_43 wrote:


And if only you'd given Downing a bit more eh?

ruben wrote:
Brown: "Bos was already in front with 300 meter to go. I thought I could pass him with 150m to go, but then he suddenly accelerated again." "Impressive", said Adri van Houwelingen from Rabobank "More impressive than Almeria."