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> "Marlene Blanshay" <
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> > In article <
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[email protected] (Bikerecker)
> > wrote:
> >
> > > He looked so calm today, reminded me of Coppi. The others were
> flailing.
> > > Greg Miller
> >
> > Actually, only a couple of them looked like they wer really suffering. Casagrande looked cool as
> > usual, except at the very end, but Garzelli was starting to get that suffering look. Simoni kind
> > of put me in mind of this photo I remember seeing of Gianni Bugno, on the Alpe D'huez, I think
> > it was 1992. Everyone else is suffering and sweating and they're all unzipped. And he looks
> > perfectly expressionless, and his WC jersey is zipped all the way up to his neck, and he looks
> > like a movie star! Simoni made me think of that, totally cool and calm.
>
> Did Bugno ever raise a sweat ever? He was one of the smoothest pedallers I've ever seen (cue for
> jokes). Even when he was sprinting he was as smooth as glass. He wasn't bad against the clock
> either, but got a bit steamrolled by the Indurain juggernaut.
>
> Jeff
Yeah, and he was a great climber. I just remembered how he looked so unfazed in that photo. There's
another photo I saw in Cycle sport last year, from one of the mountains stages in 1996. In the
photo, Alex Zulle is really suffering because he'd crashed twice and was all beat up. When we're out
on rides and climbing any of the hills around here, I joke, "everyone wants to look like bugno but
we really end up looking like Zulle". I don't know if anyone knows that photo, but it was in the
Tour preview issue last year and it was called, "Anatomy of a climb". Great picture.