I promise, this will be my last post about Oscar in yellow (well, unless something really juicy happens). But I just wanted to share this weird doctored photo that the Caisse d'Epargne team sent out to me along with their news release after the odd little ceremony held this morning in which Oscar was officially named the winner of the 2006 Tour.
WTF?!?!? It's beyond weird. It's actually kind of creepy like in the movies when stalkers cut out the heads of people in photos and stick themselves in beside the object of their affection. Do you think that Oscar's room at home is plasterd with photos of that podium on the Champs d'Elysee with Floyd's face cut out and his pasted sloppily in its place?
The release also included the following quotes from Oscar:
"I have the feeling to arrive at the end of a thriller, after having spent 14 months thinking about that and not being able to concentrate as I should have to on my job", declared Oscar Pereiro after he received the yellow jersey. "I am glad to have received this jersey, but it is essentially a kind of release. It is the end of a problem which lasted more than one year and today I think that what had to be made happened that the history finishes as it had to finish. It is the logical conclusion considering the regulation is clear on this subject. I know that it is a life-lasting story, which will be a part of the history of cycling, but it is clear that after such a long time the feelings which one can have are not the same as the ones one can feel in the moment, as for example those which were mine in Montélimar when I put on the yellow jersey, without imagining that someday I would be declared winner of the Tour. These emotions, it is impossible to feel them in a ceremony like this one, which is organized so that everyone understands and sees that Oscar Pereiro is the winner of the Tour 2006. The moment I received the profit of my work, I had mixed feelings, something between satisfaction and regret for we were deprived of."
Wacky picture aside, his words just remind me that the whole situation just sucks all 'round.
Oh, I forgot to say "Thank You" for all the great advice on climbing!! I've even been using it in Spin class...yes, now that I've reach my goal, I've gone inside...but I've started my Strength training with Spinning, so that maybe, just maybe.....I might think I can do 100 miles next year...At the Tornado Alley 110 in July! (Which is "roughly" 110mi...they added some miles when it got to the ride day! That was my 62mile ride that turned into a 78mile ride!!)
Posted by: Theresa | October 17, 2007 at 01:16 AM