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Marty Wallace

"Tom Kunich" <cyclintom@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "Marty Wallace" <mart@geo.net.au> wrote in message news:4-
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> > Canberra is in Australia, not Europe. Read it again.
> > They catch their cheaters BEFORE they get to Europe.
>
> But you do have to admit that the French are a little
> disadvantaged in
this
> regard. They're already there.....
>
>

Their drugs don't seem to do much good anyway.

John Stevenson

David Off <david.off_dumpthisbit_@voila.fr> wrote in
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> It seems pretty much everyone in Oz must be a sportman

Actually I think we currently run second in the world to the
US in adult obesity and just took first in the number of
hideously lardy kids we're ferrying about in 4WDs so the
little darlings turn into globs of grease and die of heart
attacks at 35.

The biggest factor is Australia's sporting success is that
the gummint spends money on elite sport through the AIS,
whereas, (and I am sure someone will correct me if I have
this wrong) there's no such federal expenditure in the US.

Richard Adams

John Stevenson wrote:

> David Off <david.off_dumpthisbit_@voila.fr> wrote in news:40efb4e2$0$30433$79c14f64@nan-newsreader-
> 06.noos.net:
>
>
>>It seems pretty much everyone in Oz must be a sportman
>
>
> Actually I think we currently run second in the world to
> the US in adult obesity and just took first in the number
> of hideously lardy kids we're ferrying about in 4WDs so
> the little darlings turn into globs of grease and die of
> heart attacks at 35.
>
> The biggest factor is Australia's sporting success is that
> the gummint spends money on elite sport through the AIS,
> whereas, (and I am sure someone will correct me if I have
> this wrong) there's no such federal expenditure in the US.

The US gummint generally stays the heck out of sports, even
when it is in the sole position to mediate or legislate
things. The use of performance enhancing drugs is Sporting
Fraud in many countries, but in the US it gets a finger
waggled at it and the gummint only expresses interest in
prosecution of use of outlawed drugs.

The argument goes that the sport will take care of itself.
They do, but sometimes I think a general law on doping or
thuggery would give authorities some teeth, after all,
sports provides a lot of role models. Shame so many of them
aren't very good.

jcjordan

Admitatly 10 is upleasent when sitting around doing nothing, but quite nice out on the bike. You get to play 'train' and make steam come out your mouth, may not be funny here but it had a riding partner in stiches a week ago.

One thing I do remember from Canada is the snow. Having only seen it once in Australia, I can say i never want to see the stuff again.

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"Pain does not last, bones heal and chicks dig scars"

Marty Wallace

"John Stevenson" <johnstev@comcen.com.au> wrote in message
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> David Off <david.off_dumpthisbit_@voila.fr> wrote in news:40efb4e2$0$30433$79c14f64@nan-newsreader-
> 06.noos.net:
>
> > It seems pretty much everyone in Oz must be a sportman
>
> Actually I think we currently run second in the world to
> the US in adult obesity and just took first in the number
> of hideously lardy kids we're ferrying about in 4WDs so
> the little darlings turn into globs of grease
and
> die of heart attacks at 35.
>
> The biggest factor is Australia's sporting success is that
> the gummint spends money on elite sport through the AIS,
> whereas, (and I am sure someone will correct me if I have
> this wrong) there's no such federal expenditure in the US.

When you go to the footy there's 40 blokes running around on
the oval, (I'm talkiing Aussie footy here), and 40 000
spectators sitting in the stands. Obesity will disappear
when we have 40 000 people running around on the oval and
only 40 people in the stands.

Marty

Benjamin Weiner

"Pistof" <dataylor123@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Yeah, but what happened to McGee? I can't believe someone
> of his caliber would quit so early..., or at all! He
> should've tried to finish even if he wasn't really in the
> spirit of being competitive. It would've been one more TdF
> under his belt and probably some good base training too.
> McEwen looked comfortable in Yellow, tho, and he's doing
> great this year.

Riding around ten minutes off the back of a peleton when
you're sick, you raced hard earlier this year, and your back
hurts isn't base mileage. It's suicide.

Jim Flom

"Benjamin Weiner" wrote...
>
> Riding around ten minutes off the back of a peleton when
> you're sick,

PelOton.

Thanks.