Kimmage's L'Etape

B. Lafferty said:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2094-2271966.html

Some fun parts this week. Enjoy.

It's nice to see that Kimmage is as bitter and
disdainful toward tourists and Freds riding L'Etape
as he is towards racers, fans, and anyone else stupid
or naive enough to enjoy the spectacle. I think he
might be getting carried away and starting to enjoy
it himself a bit, though.

It's a good thing he's sodding off to cover golf next
week. Because otherwise he might start to care.
While golfers, of course, will never betray him by
doping, golfers don't dope, no sir. They play for the
love of the game.

Ben
would need dope to survive golf

p.s. How come he didn't ask the tourists and Freds
riding L'Etape if they doped?

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It's nice to see that Kimmage is as bitter and
disdainful toward tourists and Freds riding L'Etape
as he is towards racers, fans, and anyone else stupid
or naive enough to enjoy the spectacle.

dumbass,

i can understand why kimmage is bitter (though it makes him
insufferable), but what about lafferty ?

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It's nice to see that Kimmage is as bitter and
disdainful toward tourists and Freds riding L'Etape
as he is towards racers, fans, and anyone else stupid
or naive enough to enjoy the spectacle.

dumbass,

i can understand why kimmage is bitter (though it makes him
insufferable), but what about lafferty ?

Nothing like a good pint of English bitters, eh? It might help to put his
golf comment into perspective:
"Thursday, July 13: Seeing and believing

Want to know what I'll miss next week about covering The Open? Join me for a
moment at the summit of today's finish in Val D'Aran. The first three
riders - Denis Menchov, Levi Leipheimer and Floyd Landis have just crossed
the line after a fantastic finish. Menchov has won the stage. Landis is the
new race leader.

I'm standing in the press pen, a couple of metres after the finishing line
when Landis stops and climbs off his bike. A helper hands him a bottle of
water. He pulls off the top, takes a swig and pours the rest over his head.
He unzips his jersey to dry his sweat-covered chest, and every fibre of his
being is twitching with exhaustion. A friend embraces him with tears in his
eyes. He is escorted to the podium to be presented with the maillot jaune.

I'd kill to interview Floyd Landis. He is one of the toughest athletes in
sport and his Mennonite background fascinates. I want to tell the world your
story, Floyd. I want to believe in you. I have no reason not to, but how can
I be sure I won't be betrayed? That never happens in golf. It's what I love
about The Open."

And as for why he does carry a bitter taste around with him, consider this
from last week:

"Tuesday, July 4: Rage

Woke up in Luxembourg this morning to a fax shoved under the door of my
room. It was sent by my brother in Dublin and included the following
covering note: "Have you read about the man who has saved professional
cycling?' The second page was a copy of an Irish Sunday newspaper and a
first-person piece written by the president of the UCI, cycling's world
governing body, Pat McQuaid.

The subject was the big-name exclusions from the Tour in the wake of the
Spanish doping controversy. The tone was self-congratulatory. "That's the
risk we take to protect our sport,' the headline announced. "When I came
into this job I wanted to clean up cycling and I will clean up cycling," the
president insisted. I nearly choked.

McQuaid and I have some previous on this issue. In 1990, when Pat was a mere
foot soldier in the corridors of power, I wrote a book called Rough Ride
about the doping culture in cycling and the changes needed to address it.
The UCI ignored me. The book was dismissed as a loser's whinge. And almost
every time I was extended a microphone, I'd find "Big Pat" in the opposite
corner, batting against me.

McQuaid was a key player when the 1998 Tour started in Dublin and after
eight years of being treated as a pariah, it came as no real surprise when I
wasn't invited to the pre-race functions. But not everyone had forgotten me.

A few days before the race, a Dutch journalist called and requested an
interview. He had raised the issue of my "low profile" with McQuaid and had
been informed that I was "bad for cycling".

Amazingly, that's still a perception in certain quarters but this much I
know. There was a time, not so long ago in France, when Tour riders were
revered as "giants of the road"; today they are, rightly or wrongly,
dismissed as "tous dopés" (all doped).

McQuaid will probably argue that it is my fault but now that he has finally
sorted it out, it would be small of me not to extend my congratulations.

Well done Pat. It takes a rare genius indeed to solve a problem that has
never really existed."

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2094-2261916.html

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i can understand why kimmage is bitter (though it makes him
insufferable), but what about lafferty ?

Imagine living your whole life with a broken down brain?

B. Lafferty said:

Quoted message said:

dumbass,

i can understand why kimmage is bitter (though it makes him
insufferable), but what about lafferty ?

Nothing like a good pint of English bitters, eh? It might help to put his
golf comment into perspective:

dumbass,

i read the kimmage columns.

i said : it's understandable that kimmage is bitter, though i'm sure it
makes him intolerable to be around. i feel like a kunich for asking:
but what's your excuse ?

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Lafferty (') said:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2094-2271966.html

Some fun parts this week. Enjoy.

"Wednesday, July 12: The remarkable Bradley Wiggins
Bradley Wiggins is not easy to love. He rarely responds to your text
messages. He rarely stops for a chat. Offer him a deal in February to
write for your newspaper, and you can be sure that in March he will
sign for somebody else. I don’t understand him. I can’t figure him
out..."

Dear boy, has it not occurred to you that he _doesn't_ _like_ you? Has it
not occurred to you that (if what you write is anything to go by),
you're negative, cynical, surly, hostile, and generally rather
unpleasant to know?

--
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i can understand why kimmage is bitter (though it makes him
insufferable), but what about lafferty ?

Imagine living your whole life with a broken down brain?

LOL!!!!! Got that Merckx quote yet, Eunuch?

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B. Lafferty said:

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dumbass,

i can understand why kimmage is bitter (though it makes him
insufferable), but what about lafferty ?

Nothing like a good pint of English bitters, eh? It might help to put
his
golf comment into perspective:

dumbass,

i read the kimmage columns.

i said : it's understandable that kimmage is bitter, though i'm sure it
makes him intolerable to be around. i feel like a kunich for asking:
but what's your excuse ?

Do you still beat your wife/girlfriend?

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Documents from the French Golf Federation, which has been
testing elite players for the past five years, produced 21 positive
results from among 157 players - a failure rate of more than 13%.
Among the drugs identified by the testers were cocaine, ecstasy
and sambutamol, an asthma drug which taken in high doses
can increase an athlete's endurance. ...

You need to be a real fatty master to require endurance dope for golf.