"Robert Chung" <
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> "HEATHER HALVORSON!!!!!" wrote
> >
> > Robert Chung wrote:
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> > > do either of you have a shift key on your keyboards?
> > >
> > > --robert
> >
> > Yes, I have a Shift Key, but I do NOT like using it.
> >
> > why are you so interested in the size of my letters, robert?
>
> What, are you worried that I'm casing you out?
>
> Back on topic, I'm still sorta interested in why w.a. manning thinks
Boonen
> is going to flame out.
There are a number of thoughts that come to mind. 1) Boonen is naturally talented and like all
naturally talented people the tendancy is to slack off on the training because he can win without
trying. Since the Belgians are such fanatical fans they just build the egos of star riders up almost
as much as the Italians (of course neither get anywhere near that of an American football
quarterback.) It takes a tremendous amount of character to withstand that sort of adulation and not
become completely self absorbed as VDB seems to have become. While Museeuw hasn't gotten too far
into left field he too has suffered from the spotlight with his "I'm retiring" every other week. So
it is probable that Boonen is going to have the same problems and as you seen him behaving with
Postal it's clear that unless he catches himself pretty quick he's going to go the same way VDB did.
2) Since the majority of children born in Belgium these days are of Arab extraction, all of the
Belgian businesses are going to pull their money out of bicycle racing and put it into camel racing.