robwbright
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Don't know how many are following the Tour this year (I hardly have - the "no Lance factor", I guess).
Anyway, ESPN magazine did a piece on American Floyd Landis (who is apparently in 1st place in the tour as of today).
I suppose most of you knew this, but Landis rides MX (he was pictured with his sweet RMZ450) and hangs with Ryno.
http://www.cyclingnews.com/features.php?id=features/2005/floydcamp
Incidentally, Floyd is also a former Mennonite (the Mennonites are the "progressive Amish", as the ESPN article referred to him.).
He's tough, too:
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/wire?section=cycling&id=2517374
"Elite cyclist Floyd Landis has Tour de France fans and even many physicians stumped.
How can a guy whose hip is falling apart hop on a bike, let alone be a contender in this most grueling challenge?
His degenerating condition has crumbled the ball of his hip joint so that it no longer fits neatly into the socket, his doctor says. The irregular-shaped bone has ground down surrounding cartilage, and arthritis has set in.
It's the same kind of injury that shortened the career of former baseball and football star Bo Jackson.
For mere mortals, the pain would be excruciating and they'd be begging for a hip replacement. . .
Pain tolerance separates elite athletes from the rest of us, said Dr. David Prince, a sports injury specialist at New York's Montefiore Medical Center.
"If you or I were to undergo what he's experiencing, we would go nuts and probably have the surgery that night," Prince said. "For the average person, on a pain scale of 1 to 10, this would probably be a 50."
Anyway, ESPN magazine did a piece on American Floyd Landis (who is apparently in 1st place in the tour as of today).
I suppose most of you knew this, but Landis rides MX (he was pictured with his sweet RMZ450) and hangs with Ryno.
http://www.cyclingnews.com/features.php?id=features/2005/floydcamp
Incidentally, Floyd is also a former Mennonite (the Mennonites are the "progressive Amish", as the ESPN article referred to him.).
He's tough, too:
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/wire?section=cycling&id=2517374
"Elite cyclist Floyd Landis has Tour de France fans and even many physicians stumped.
How can a guy whose hip is falling apart hop on a bike, let alone be a contender in this most grueling challenge?
His degenerating condition has crumbled the ball of his hip joint so that it no longer fits neatly into the socket, his doctor says. The irregular-shaped bone has ground down surrounding cartilage, and arthritis has set in.
It's the same kind of injury that shortened the career of former baseball and football star Bo Jackson.
For mere mortals, the pain would be excruciating and they'd be begging for a hip replacement. . .
Pain tolerance separates elite athletes from the rest of us, said Dr. David Prince, a sports injury specialist at New York's Montefiore Medical Center.
"If you or I were to undergo what he's experiencing, we would go nuts and probably have the surgery that night," Prince said. "For the average person, on a pain scale of 1 to 10, this would probably be a 50."