The best excuse yet

[Carl Sundquist]

I was listening to an NPR interview today with Adam Nelson, US shotputter
and silver medalist at 2000 and 2004 Olympics, who is training for Beijing.
He recently competed in the adidas Track Classic and finished 2nd behind
another USA competitor, He claimed that his poor performance was partially
due to the airlines only serving him peanuts on his cross country flight to
the event. He claimed that he lost 7 pounds during the trip.

 

[Howard Kveck]

In article <HP3%[email protected]>, "Carl Sundquist" <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I was listening to an NPR interview today with Adam Nelson, US shotputter
> and silver medalist at 2000 and 2004 Olympics, who is training for Beijing.
> He recently competed in the adidas Track Classic and finished 2nd behind
> another USA competitor, He claimed that his poor performance was partially
> due to the airlines only serving him peanuts on his cross country flight to
> the event. He claimed that he lost 7 pounds during the trip.

Damn, what a metabolism he's got. Or did they just taxi across the country?

--
tanx,
Howard

Whatever happened to
Leon Trotsky?
He got an icepick
That made his ears burn.

remove YOUR SHOES to reply, ok?

 

[RicodJour]

On May 27, 10:54 pm, "Carl Sundquist" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I was listening to an NPR interview today with Adam Nelson, US shotputter
> and silver medalist at 2000 and 2004 Olympics, who is training for Beijing..
> He recently competed in the adidas Track Classic and finished 2nd behind
> another USA competitor, He claimed that his poor performance was partially
> due to the airlines only serving him peanuts on his cross country flight to
> the event. He claimed that he lost 7 pounds during the trip.

I thought you were going to post the one by Riccardo Ricco:
“Without the team time trial and my fall in the individual time trial,
I’d be in the pink jersey right now,” said Riccò.
In other words, if he was in another race and could stay on the bike
he'd be winning right now...

R

 

[dave a]

Carl Sundquist wrote:
> I was listening to an NPR interview today with Adam Nelson, US
> shotputter and silver medalist at 2000 and 2004 Olympics, who is
> training for Beijing. He recently competed in the adidas Track Classic
> and finished 2nd behind another USA competitor, He claimed that his poor
> performance was partially due to the airlines only serving him peanuts
> on his cross country flight to the event. He claimed that he lost 7
> pounds during the trip.

Damn, I should fly more. I could stand to lose 7 pounds.

What airline did his competitor use?

/dave a

 

[Fred Fredburger]

dave a wrote:
> Carl Sundquist wrote:
>> I was listening to an NPR interview today with Adam Nelson, US
>> shotputter and silver medalist at 2000 and 2004 Olympics, who is
>> training for Beijing. He recently competed in the adidas Track Classic
>> and finished 2nd behind another USA competitor, He claimed that his
>> poor performance was partially due to the airlines only serving him
>> peanuts on his cross country flight to the event. He claimed that he
>> lost 7 pounds during the trip.
>
> Damn, I should fly more. I could stand to lose 7 pounds.
>

Yeah. There's a diet book in this for sure. If we could get Oprah to eat
the peanuts, we'd make millions!

 

[Howard Kveck]

In article <[email protected]>,
Fred Fredburger <[email protected]> wrote:

> dave a wrote:
> > Carl Sundquist wrote:
> >> I was listening to an NPR interview today with Adam Nelson, US
> >> shotputter and silver medalist at 2000 and 2004 Olympics, who is
> >> training for Beijing. He recently competed in the adidas Track Classic
> >> and finished 2nd behind another USA competitor, He claimed that his
> >> poor performance was partially due to the airlines only serving him
> >> peanuts on his cross country flight to the event. He claimed that he
> >> lost 7 pounds during the trip.
> >
> > Damn, I should fly more. I could stand to lose 7 pounds.
> >
>
> Yeah. There's a diet book in this for sure. If we could get Oprah to eat
> the peanuts, we'd make millions!

Ahh, the maaaagic peanuts...

--
tanx,
Howard

Whatever happened to
Leon Trotsky?
He got an icepick
That made his ears burn.

remove YOUR SHOES to reply, ok?

 

[Ryan Cousineau]

In article
<396dcd49-659d-43e7-90c0-1458774958dd@p25g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>,
RicodJour <[email protected]> wrote:

> On May 27, 10:54 pm, "Carl Sundquist" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I was listening to an NPR interview today with Adam Nelson, US shotputter
> > and silver medalist at 2000 and 2004 Olympics, who is training for Beijing.
> > He recently competed in the adidas Track Classic and finished 2nd behind
> > another USA competitor, He claimed that his poor performance was partially
> > due to the airlines only serving him peanuts on his cross country flight to
> > the event. He claimed that he lost 7 pounds during the trip.
>
> I thought you were going to post the one by Riccardo Ricco:
> ³Without the team time trial and my fall in the individual time trial,
> I¹d be in the pink jersey right now,² said Riccò.
> In other words, if he was in another race and could stay on the bike
> he'd be winning right now...
>
> R

Yeah, well, shoot...if I had better genetics and more dedication to
training and not eating, I could be living the $15k dream right now.

If ifs and buts were fruits and nuts, we'd have semi-pro sports in a
nutshell,

--
Ryan Cousineau [email protected] http://www.wiredcola.com/
"In other newsgroups, they killfile trolls."
"In rec.bicycles.racing, we coach them."

 

[Donald Munro]

Carl Sundquist wrote:
>> He claimed that his poor
>> performance was partially due to the airlines only serving him peanuts
>> on his cross country flight to the event. He claimed that he lost 7
>> pounds during the trip.

Howard Kveck wrote:
> Damn, what a metabolism he's got. Or did they just taxi across the
> country?

Perhaps it was a GM peanut that was modified to act as a stimulant.

 

[mtb Dad]

LOL Damn, you guys are funny today.
Thx

 

[Carl Sundquist]

"mtb Dad" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>
> LOL Damn, you guys are funny today.
> Thx

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