EisenAndy has moved to Wordpress for a while, to see if it is better than Blogger: and I took the opportunity to get the name Schleckland back, yay!
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Boo hoo, I found out yesterday that Rob Goris has sadly died from a heart attack at the very early age of just 30 years.
Cycling News gave a brief report, saying that he was visiting the Tour yesterday and died in his sleep overnight.
He became an honorary Schlecklander last year, after the commentators kept referring to him as the Belgian Fritte Boy due to his er, somewhat chunky build. He came into cycling from Ice Hockey, bit of a change of career there: and proved that you don't have to be a tiny skinny little thing in order to be a good professional cyclist.
It is always tragic when a young man dies: I was particularly sad as this is the second Honorary Schlecklander to die, after poor Tondo died last May.
Luckily, before I began to get a complex about ever picking any more honorary Schlecklanders, I remembered all those who have gone on to bigger and better things: like Johan Van Summeren (JVS) who, after being a super domestique for so many years, came to fame on my blog for his strange habit of tucking up his sleeves, obscuring the Garmin-blue band. Then he won Paris-Roubaix last year, ha ha, good boy!
Not to forget Ryder Hesjerdal, of course: I was taking the mickey out of his name a year ago, and look what a great year he's had! Well, up until today, that is, when he was involved in a very nasty crash and came in over 13 mins down, in 181th place. Oops.
Talking of JVS, poor boy, he came in last today, 16 minutes down, having also been caught in that crash, and this is what he looked like:
Ouch! Not a lot of that jersey left! 14 minutes earlier, Frankie and his group came in, only losing 2 minutes or so, which was pretty remarkable, considering what a huge crash it was.
Strangely, Frankie appears to be frothing at the mouth as he crosses the line, below: at least, I can't imagine what else it could be?
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