Is Vinokourov OK?

Well, he finished 35...but it was basically a peloton finish.

Tim Lines said:

http://sports.yahoo.com/sc/news?slug=reu-spainrock_attack&prov=reuters&type=lgns

So, I assume Vino went down when his wheel was destroyed. Is he OK?

There's only one guy who could hurl a 5 kg rock with accuracy....

Fred Flintstone.

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From: Richard Adams [email hidden]

Quoted message said:

There's only one guy who could hurl a 5 kg rock with accuracy....

Fred Flintstone.

Nope:
The traditional stone weighs 14 pounds, and was actually an event in the early
modern olympics. In fact, the stone is a traditional unit of weight
measurement, equal to 14 pounds. It is common in England, Scotland, and
Ireland, to describe one's bodyweight in stone units. For example, a 215-pound
man would be "15 stone, 5 pounds."

http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/8682/heavy/descrip.htm
Bill C

Richard Adams said:

Tim Lines said:

http://sports.yahoo.com/sc/news?slug=reu-spainrock_attack&prov=reuters&type=lgns

So, I assume Vino went down when his wheel was destroyed. Is he OK?

There's only one guy who could hurl a 5 kg rock with accuracy....

Fred Flintstone.

I thought something similar, but I'm not sure accuracy was an issue. He
might have just shotput the thing in the general direction of the
peloton and gotten Vino's wheel by chance.

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TritonRider said:

Nope:
The traditional stone weighs 14 pounds, and was actually an event in the early
modern olympics. In fact, the stone is a traditional unit of weight
measurement, equal to 14 pounds. It is common in England, Scotland, and
Ireland, to describe one's bodyweight in stone units. For example, a 215-pound
man would be "15 stone, 5 pounds."

I hope Lafferty isn't going to use this to get out of supplying someone
with a Mardi Gras King Cake prize after the winter
(http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&c2coff=1&threadm=AH8Vc.101309%24dP1.354473%40newsc.telia.net&rnum=5&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26c2coff%3D1%26q%3Dullrich%2Bcake%26btnG%3DSearch%26meta%3Dgroup%253Drec.bicycles.racing).

"Donald Munro" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

TritonRider said:

Nope:
The traditional stone weighs 14 pounds, and was actually an event in the
early
modern olympics. In fact, the stone is a traditional unit of weight
measurement, equal to 14 pounds. It is common in England, Scotland, and
Ireland, to describe one's bodyweight in stone units. For example, a
215-pound
man would be "15 stone, 5 pounds."

I hope Lafferty isn't going to use this to get out of supplying someone
with a Mardi Gras King Cake prize after the winter
(http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&c2coff=1&threadm=AH8Vc.101309%24dP1.354473%40newsc.telia.net&rnum=5&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26c2coff%3D1%26q%3Dullrich%2Bcake%26btnG%3DSearch%26meta%3Dgroup%253Drec.bicycles.racing).

I have all the predictions stored. The prize will be awarded, subject to
weight verification. If you want to predict in stones, that's fine. But
you will have to convert that to kilos, not me.

BTW, if Jan's weight can't be verified, I'll consider making King Cake
available at an open house. Any attendees will be subject to weapons
searches and psychological profiling before admittance---but don't let that
keep anyone away. [censored] choking on the Baby, won't get the Heimlich. ;-)

"Donald Munro" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

TritonRider said:

Nope:
The traditional stone weighs 14 pounds, and was actually an event in the
early
modern olympics. In fact, the stone is a traditional unit of weight
measurement, equal to 14 pounds. It is common in England, Scotland, and
Ireland, to describe one's bodyweight in stone units. For example, a
215-pound
man would be "15 stone, 5 pounds."

I hope Lafferty isn't going to use this to get out of supplying someone
with a Mardi Gras King Cake prize after the winter
(http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&c2coff=1&threadm=AH8Vc.101309%24dP1.354473%40newsc.telia.net&rnum=5&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26c2coff%3D1%26q%3Dullrich%2Bcake%26btnG%3DSearch%26meta%3Dgroup%253Drec.bicycles.racing).

I have all the predictions stored. The prize will be awarded, subject to
weight verification. If you want to predict in stones, that's fine. But
you will have to convert that to kilos, not me.

BTW, if Jan's weight can't be verified, I'll consider making King Cake
available at an open house. Any attendees will be subject to weapons
searches and psychological profiling before admittance---but don't let that
keep anyone away. [censored] choking on the Baby, won't get the Heimlich. ;-)

Tim Lines <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<OXt%c.50972$3l3.29621@attbi_s03>...

Quoted message said:

Richard Adams said:

Tim Lines said:

http://sports.yahoo.com/sc/news?slug=reu-spainrock_attack&prov=reuters&type=lgns

So, I assume Vino went down when his wheel was destroyed. Is he OK?

There's only one guy who could hurl a 5 kg rock with accuracy....

Fred Flintstone.

I thought something similar, but I'm not sure accuracy was an issue. He
might have just shotput the thing in the general direction of the
peloton and gotten Vino's wheel by chance.

Drunken british hooligans are common enough aren't they?

Tim Lines said:

Quoted message said:

I thought something similar, but I'm not sure accuracy was an issue. He
might have just shotput the thing in the general direction of the
peloton and gotten Vino's wheel by chance.

Tom Kunich said:

Drunken british hooligans are common enough aren't they?

British football (aka soccer) hooligans are commonplace, but according to
cyclingnews this one was "clad as a mountain biker".

"Donald Munro" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Tim Lines said:

Quoted message said:

I thought something similar, but I'm not sure accuracy was an issue.

He

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

might have just shotput the thing in the general direction of the
peloton and gotten Vino's wheel by chance.

Tom Kunich said:

Drunken british hooligans are common enough aren't they?

British football (aka soccer) hooligans are commonplace, but according to
cyclingnews this one was "clad as a mountain biker".

It's not exactly his style (and he probably can't heave a 5 kg. rock very
far anyway), but did Cornelius Horan escape jail?

Donald Munro said:

Tim Lines said:

Quoted message said:

I thought something similar, but I'm not sure accuracy was an
issue. He might have just shotput the thing in the general
direction of the peloton and gotten Vino's wheel by chance.

Tom Kunich said:

Drunken british hooligans are common enough aren't they?

British football (aka soccer) hooligans are commonplace, but
according to cyclingnews this one was "clad as a mountain biker".

How is that? Did he wear a cycling helmet with visors 😉

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It seems that while he was okay from the rock, he's suffering from food poisoning and has all but dropped out of contention for the GC. In case you didn't see the results.

Carl Sundquist said:

It's not exactly his style (and he probably can't heave a 5 kg. rock very
far anyway), but did Cornelius Horan escape jail?

He got a big fine and a suspended sentence.

keydates said:

It seems that while he was okay from the rock, he's suffering from food poisoning and has all but dropped out of contention for the GC. In case you didn't see the results.

Hit by a rock then gets diarrhoea? Must have been one dirty rock.

keydates said:

It seems that while he was okay from the rock, he's suffering from
food poisoning and has all but dropped out of contention for the GC.
In case you didn't see the results.

You totally misunderstood my question. I responded to this

Quoted message said:

but according to cyclingnews this one was "clad as a mountain biker".

and asked
How is that? Did he wear a cycling helmet with visors

LOL It was supposed to be funny, since everybody knows that mountain bikers
wear visors on their helmets and roadies do not LOL

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Perre

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I was responding to the OP, not you. But, I'm not the quoting type so it sometimes becomes hard to discern who I am actually addressing.

Don't think you could eat a 10 pound rock.

keydates said:

I'm not the quoting type

Everyone else is, cyclingforums moron. This is not a web forum, this is
a usenet newsgroup. You're just using a web gateway that parasitizes on
our collective creativity to sell ads. I hate it, hate it, hate it!

Go to http://www.individual.net/ , create a (free!) account, wait for
the login details sent by e-mail, enter the account details in your news
reader (like Outlook Express with OE-Quotefix from
http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/ (free!) or Thunderbird
from http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/ (free!) or Agent from
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the real world.

keydates said:

I was responding to the OP, not you. But, I'm not the quoting type so
it sometimes becomes hard to discern who I am actually addressing.

Don't think you could eat a 10 pound rock.

I'm sorry. Your response was linked to my posting not the OPs. Mr Dronkert
is absolutely correct. Go get a Newsserver account if you want to make any
sense in this virtual reality we have here. There's lot's of static in ths
NG but at least we keep track of who we are talking to.

And yes I tried eating 10 pound rocks when I was younger. Never seemed to
make it through more'n a gram or two though 😉

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