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Old January 17th 16, 08:13 PM posted to rec.bicycles.racing
Davey Crockett[_12_]
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Default Alexi Grewal: worst teammate ever

a écrit profondement:


On Wednesday, December 8, 2010 at 6:58:09 PM UTC-5, Ryan Cousineau wrote:
| In his own, awesome words:
|
|
http://www.alexigrewal.com/index.php...olympics-in-la
|
| " I was not thinking what I could do to help Davis, I was thinking how
| I could use the situation to work all my rivals against each other"
|
| "Phinney was wearing a skin suit.... The skinsuit was information I
| filed away. Only one pocket was sewn into it and we faced a hot,
| hilly two hundred kilometer race. One feed zone per lap on a
| downhill, right near the start finish, wearing a skin suit with one
| pocket was to rely on the unreliable."
|
| "Two laps to go Davis asks me for food. I lied, said I don't have
| any, I justified it in my mind by thinking I might need it myself."
|
| ...and much more, very entertaining stuff, not just about hiding food
| from the team leader, but also about his tactical choices, and how he
| saw the race.
|
| I did a cursory search, and haven't seen a post in rbr that breaks
| down 1984 Olympic road race race to this extent. Grewal's explanation
| is as fascinating as it is Machiavellian.
|
| There's more goodies in the rest of the site, including his story of
| spitting on the camera man.
|
| I remind you this reinforces my "amateur bike racing is awesome"
| theory, since in 1984 this was an amateurs-only race.

| i will have you all know that Joker was on LSD also... this is how the sprinter lost to the mankie indian...


On LSD?

Then he should have been doing a Flyer

Ryan --- Are you still around?

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