Sad...

[Grog]

Sad indeed.

I wouldn't label cocaine as "recreational" though. It's been used in cycling (and other high-stress professions, you name 'em) for years and years along with caffeine, amphetamines, and other stimulants, some explosive cocktails are made with it, to increase tolerance to intense exercise and pain. My understanding is that the "cocktails" are mixed with little doses of lots of stuff so that individually they are not detectable but together they still have lots of effect. That stuff probably causes the athletes to become addicted after a while...

[redrhodie]

Sad indeed.

I wouldn't label cocaine as "recreational" though. It's been used in cycling (and other high-stress professions, you name 'em) for years and years along with caffeine, amphetamines, and other stimulants, some explosive cocktails are made with it, to increase tolerance to intense exercise and pain. My understanding is that the "cocktails" are mixed with little doses of lots of stuff so that individually they are not detectable but together they still have lots of effect. That stuff probably causes the athletes to become addicted after a while...

Oh, I was figuring him for a disco dancing party animal.

[gnat23]

Oh, I was figuring him for a disco dancing party animal.

I thought it was him maybe trying to keep up with his young girlfriend.

-- gnat! (oh, kids these days...)

[VeloVT]

I thought it was him maybe trying to keep up with his young girlfriend.

-- gnat! (oh, kids these days...)

ahem...

ok, so according to an interview with Boonen in Cycle Sport a few months ago, that 16 year old is **not** his girlfririend, just the daughter of the person (sponsor, or someone otherwise affiliated with the team) who organized the vacation for him, and the press "twisted" those photos around. Boonen also says in this article that a year earlier, the press caught a photo of him and his girlfriend having lunch on his balcony with a good friend and HIS girlfriend, and they cropped the photo to make it look like he (Boonen) had a new girlfriend...

OK, I don't know who to believe !!!

But I want to like him because he has a sweet, innocent smile...

[redrhodie]

Liza, you don't live in the same cynical world that I do. I don't see sweet and innocent:

http://foto.nieuwsblad.be/6788234867

Well, maybe I'm wrong. Just because he acts like a rock star, and does a little blow, doesn't mean you can't bring him home to meet your parents, right? I'm sure he's a very nice boy.

All joking aside, I think he's great, and I don't care what he does in his personal life.

[redrhodie]

He's out :

http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/cyclin...ory?id=3436911

[sundial]

Drat! No Tornado Tom this year.