Sad...

[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...