Two Wheel Blogs

What do you get when you decide to cut towards instead of away from yourself? These pictures show it clearly...you get a pair of shears buried into your fore arm, and an emergency room full of doctors wondering if you need Psych. clearance after your suicide attempt.

Mom taught me not to run with scissors, but she never said anything about running scissors into my self.

Now I sit here watching the whole thing turn ever more purple, thankful every minute that it was a minor injury. I managed to miss the arteries and tendons, but because of the depth of the puncture, I have deep bruising and pain when I attempt to support myself on the bars while riding. I will have to raise my bars considerably in order to keep training (must take some weight off my hands).

Learn from your idiot friend: Sharp objects and shellfish can totally ruin a party. Cold lobster is not very good. Emergency rooms are crowded on a Saturday night. And your family needs you, so take care of yourself!

A friend sent me a couple photos once and I always thought that this was a photo shop job. Recently someone showed me this video and Hans is for real, and this video looks pretty convincing. I am pretty sure that Hans would never stoop to video editing…either he pulls off an amazing move, or it won’t make the video (sometimes even the ones he doesn’t pull off make it to video).

You think you ride some technical stuff…nope, you don’t. Hans has you beat.

Let it roll for about 1:20...you will see this ledge again.

If it looks deep, or you have never been there before, take it slow the first time.

It's been two long years, but today is the day the suspension ends. Let's all join in and welcome Tyler Hamilton and his chimera twin back to the peloton.

How's that for an understated title? The real news today is that at least two of them have not admitted it voluntarily. Who? Frankie Andreu and an unnamed US Postal Service teammate. Seems the postal boys were doping to keep up with Lance in preparation for the Tour de France that year.

Or was it during the Tour? They won't say. Nor will they say who else was using.

[Frankie] Andreu said he was introduced to drugs in 1995 when he and Armstrong were teammates for Motorola, saying some riders felt they could no longer compete with Europeans whose rapid improvement was rumored to be aided by EPO.

Andreu's wife Betsy told the Times she found a thermal container with EPO in her refrigerator before the 1999 Tour and became angry but bowed to her husband's plea to take EPO to help finish the race and then never use it again.

Betsy Andreu told the Times she blames Armstrong for pressuring teammates to use drugs, saying her husband "didn't use EPO for himself, because as a domestique, he was never going to win that race.

"It was for Lance," she said.

Today should be a fun one for armchair GC contenders. The forums will be alive with rants and raves today.

Word on the street is Dick Pound is in the process of preparing a statement for the press.

Miyazato aces 2 holes in same round

Japan's Yusaku Miyazato became the first golfer to make two holes-in-one in the same round of a PGA Tour tournament when he aced a pair of par 3s Friday at the Reno-Tahoe Open.

Miyazato accomplished the feat on the 230-yard, downhill seventh hole and then the 173-yard, uphill No. 12 at the Montreux Golf and Country Club.

Bob Tway had two aces in the same tournament at the Memorial in 1994 and Glen Day did the same at the Greater Hartford Open the same year, but PGA Tour officials said they could find no record of any golfer on tour who pulled it off the same day.

Miyazato, 26, who lives in Tokyo, speaks only a little English so his caddie served as a translator for reporters after the round. But he knew how to answer directly when asked how he planned to celebrate Friday night.

"Drink much beer. Big party," he said with a wide smile.

OK so it's not cycling. Sue me. Funny too, because I don't think the Pounder is the type who prepares for anything.