Kat, I'm so so sorry you and your family continue to have to go through so much. You are all still in my thoughts and prayers. I'll be hoping both procedures go as well as possible.
One of you is gonna fall and die, and I'm not cleaning it up!
Mal ,'War Stories'
Natter 53: We could just avoid making tortured puns
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Stephanie - Jul 25, 2007 2:06:54 pm PDT #188 of 10001
Trust my rage
Liese S. - Jul 25, 2007 2:09:09 pm PDT #189 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Yeah, I was thinking about that. If I were there and had everything invested in one guy from my country and had saved up my whole life to be standing at the side of the road, I would probably scream and run alongside him waving a flag too.
Okay, I probably wouldn't. But I would understand the sentiment.
But I also can't imagine trying to ride through that mass of flesh. Although I did awww at them pushing up whatshisname as he fell back.
Dana - Jul 25, 2007 2:11:08 pm PDT #190 of 10001
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Although I did awww at them pushing up whatshisname as he fell back.
Menchov. Though that's more or less illegal, but it's up to the referees to make an issue of it. It's pretty awesome, in a freaky way, to watch the guys work so hard that they suddenly just go *boom* and have trouble even moving their legs.
Liese S. - Jul 25, 2007 2:14:39 pm PDT #191 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I know. At first I thought something had happened, but then I realized he'd just totally spent himself. Athleticism at this level is just amazing to me.
Which makes the doping stuff just all that much odder. I can certainly understand the pressure that would cause it, but man, how can you not think you're going to get caught at this level?
§ ita § - Jul 25, 2007 2:18:31 pm PDT #192 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
eta:
how can you not think you're going to get caught at this level?
If it's as prevalent as rumoured, lots of people aren't getting caught. They're just cheating right.
Dana - Jul 25, 2007 2:21:19 pm PDT #193 of 10001
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
If it's as prevalent as rumoured, lots of people aren't getting caught. They're just cheating right.
But the more successful you are, the more you're tested. Which would imply that the guys who aren't getting caught are probably the workhorses of the team. But stage winners are tested. Yellow jersey, tested. Plus random tests.
§ ita § - Jul 25, 2007 2:26:51 pm PDT #194 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't know much about bike racing and how they dope or test, but from what I've been told about athletics the tests don't catch the dopers. Ben Johnson was a moron.
Dana - Jul 25, 2007 2:30:44 pm PDT #195 of 10001
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
I just caught a couple minutes of Lance Armstrong on Hardball. Man, Chris Matthews is a schmuck.
amych will know more about the testing than I do.
t /Tour de France likes carrots
Kat - Jul 25, 2007 2:32:24 pm PDT #196 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
After reading the article, I'm still wigged by the idea that people are using blood transfusions (!!) to recover! Where it says that Vinokourov had two different types of blood in system do they mean blood types? And how is that possible unless one of the types is O?
Jesse - Jul 25, 2007 2:36:33 pm PDT #197 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
In other news, did anyone see the CNN/YouTube debate, or coverage thereof? A semi-worker was totally all over all of it! Jon Stewart told her she could "do better" than her partner! Bananas!! (Semi-coworker because she works for the NYC local branch and I work for national, but we're in the same space.)