so what...

Floyd got a new hip yesterday and Shakira is singing about no lying hips? Hum...my hip hurts too, but I think I can wait on the replacement until after I win a Tour de France. Maybe a thumb replacement might be in order. I heard they can replace the thumb joint. Oh well. Meanwhile, back to other matters of no consequence.

From www.cyclingnews.com 9/29/06...
Astana riders Alexandre Vinokourov and his most valuable domestique Andrei Kashechkin have decided to call it a day for this season after the Züri-Metzgete, the pair announced. Even though the two could not participate in the 2006 Tour de France, they made the Vuelta a España a tough battle for Alejandro Valverde, and managed to turn the race around in the final week, to take home the maillot oro.

It is this achievement that French trainer Frédéric Grappe questions now in Vélo Magazine, saying that the physical progress Vinokourov achieved since the Tour de France last year was practically impossible. "He would have gained, in one year, between 35 and 40 watts on the verge of the anaerobic threshold? That's nearly impossible on that level of training. Even the best training in the world would not lead to this kind of performance increase," Grappe told the French magazine, speaking of those last two mountain stages where the Kazakhstani reversed the overall classification.

Those French. Can't they just let their inner child out, imagine a glorious ride, and believe in the "impossible" sometimes?