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Message: [QUOTE="homey, post: 144563, member: 24429"] I think we have to realize that this is his full time job. Like everyone else in the working world, he too has his complaints. There are not too many people that can devote every hour of their lives to their career! I have a 40 hour a-week job and at 5:00 I drop everything and forget about it. Travis, and any other professional athelete, has to put in extra hours to get where he is. I tried a full season of downhill mountainbiking this year with the job, if I didn't have the job I think I would still get burnt out, and I only had about 10 races. These guy's are on the road every week in a different time zone living out of a suitcase for months at a time. They don't have it easy! The media and everyone who observes the sport from a distance are quick to judge, and usually make statements without good judgement. Although I am not a professional athelete, I would believe Travis's own statement before I would believe someone else! [/QUOTE]