In honor of the first Australian to win KBK it seems appropriate to give a Chapeau to our mates down under. Congrats to perhaps the greatest up and coming cycling nation on earth and to Chris Sutton for a show of strength in what was a free-for-all to the finish in Kuurne today.
Lest our mates get too cocky though, have a look at the egregious attempt at the three-point system from the first Aussie to wear yellow in the tour. Yes, Phil is a stud and the hair net and eye shades rule. But in order for them to work some adjustment needed to be made.
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@mouse
I think it's 1991. Thierry Marie rode a bike with a similar fairing while riding for Castorama. It was made by (or for) Selle Italia saddles.
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I know in one of his 3 Tour prologue wins the one he rode with was huge and black. I'm sure Patty McQuaid would ban them outright these days!
Sorry to drag things down this route, but I saw Anderson interviewed on Aust. TV recently where it was alleged he was present in the hotel room when the then 21 year old COTHO bribed ($50K) a couple of Italian riders to help him take the $1M prize for crossing the line first (I can't call it winning) in all three of the triple crown races in the USA. Anderson was like a rabbit in the headlights, umming and ahhhing and generally coming across as guilty as all fuck. It really left me in no doubt that he was aware of Pharmstrong being a cheating pile of shit from the very earliest days.
Gutted.
Reminds me of a line on The Paul Hogan Show when I was a kid.."it's kind of like finding out that Muhammad Ali is a poofter"
*please excuse 70's Aussie bogan homophobia
@El Segundo
Phil was my idol when I started racing in the 80's. Have a autographed cap as well as collected any newspaper results/reports that I could get as cycling news wasn't as big as it is now. Even posters up on my bedroom wall. My LBS gave me the old Shimano calendars that had wide, landscape pic of most of the classic european races, kept the ones with PA in them.
Saw that said interview and like you was gutted. All the umming and aaring, he arrrs a lot anyway, had guilty all over.
Now every time I see him talking, as the late great Bill Hicks once said,
"every word that comes out of your mouth is now like a turd falling into my drink..."
@sthilzy I dare say you were more disappointed than I, me being just a kid and a casual observer in Phil's day. He was still a hero to me though.
In retrospect my interest was purely nationalistic, and I never raced, I just liked riding my bike. The same bike I'm rebuilding now. That's a great quote from Bill Hicks too, but it's a shame to be introduced to it in this context.
All this doping/cheating shit really makes me question how realistic it is to have naively expected more from these guys, as if they should somehow be immune from human frailties. Though I've despised cheating ever since playing footy in primary school, I shudder to think how I'd answer some difficult questions about my distant past. From the way he responded to those questions, I dare say it plays on Phil's mind to this day.
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