The Return of Eric Heiden

[B Lafferty]

Riding RAAM as reported in CyclingNews:
".....Eric Heiden who helped announce one of those broadcasts will be
returning to RAAM this year on a four-person team."

Nice to know he'll be back on a bike.

--
How strange when an illusion dies, it's as though you've lost a child.--Judy
Garland

 

[Steve]

On 1/21/05 2:44 PM, in article
[email protected], "B Lafferty"
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Riding RAAM as reported in CyclingNews:
> ".....Eric Heiden who helped announce one of those broadcasts will be
> returning to RAAM this year on a four-person team."
>
> Nice to know he'll be back on a bike.

And if he does good he MUST be on dope............
That is your point right????

 

[Kurgan Gringioni]

Steve wrote:

>
> And if he does good he MUST be on dope............
> That is your point right????




Dumbass -

No, but he used to be good, therefore he used to be on dope
(Laffertyism #1).

Problem is, Heiden doesn't fit into the: he's arrogant, therefore he's
on dope (Laffertyism #2).


K. Gringioni.

 

[B Lafferty]

"Steve" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> On 1/21/05 2:44 PM, in article
> [email protected], "B Lafferty"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Riding RAAM as reported in CyclingNews:
>> ".....Eric Heiden who helped announce one of those broadcasts will be
>> returning to RAAM this year on a four-person team."
>>
>> Nice to know he'll be back on a bike.
>
> And if he does good he MUST be on dope............
> That is your point right????
>

Not at all. It's going to be fun to see what he looks like on a bike. I
suspect that he's lost some of that top heavy muscle that he needed in speed
skating which hindered his climbing. As part of a team (I'm assuming this
is how he'll ride RAAM) he could have lots of fun and possibly raise the
profile of the race in 2005.

 

[John Forrest Tomlinson]

On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 10:55:54 GMT, "B Lafferty" <[email protected]>
wrote:


>
>Not at all. It's going to be fun to see what he looks like on a bike. I
>suspect that he's lost some of that top heavy muscle that he needed in speed
>skating which hindered his climbing.

Yeah, I'm sure that he's lost a lot of upper body weight that he had
in riding the Giro and most stages of the Tour of France.

JT

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[B Lafferty]

"John Forrest Tomlinson" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 10:55:54 GMT, "B Lafferty" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>
>>
>>Not at all. It's going to be fun to see what he looks like on a bike. I
>>suspect that he's lost some of that top heavy muscle that he needed in
>>speed
>>skating which hindered his climbing.
>
> Yeah, I'm sure that he's lost a lot of upper body weight that he had
> in riding the Giro and most stages of the Tour of France.
>
> JT

Do you remember that scene from the CBS coverage (I think it was CBS) where
after a mountain stage he just looks up at the camera and says, "Ouch!?"
IIRC, he dropped out the next day.

 

[John Forrest Tomlinson]

On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 13:39:41 GMT, "B Lafferty" <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
>Do you remember that scene from the CBS coverage (I think it was CBS) where
>after a mountain stage he just looks up at the camera and says, "Ouch!?"
>IIRC, he dropped out the next day.

He got dropped on every mountain stage, which is to be expected.
(Though he would have finished the Tour of France if he hadn't
crashed) But riding grand tours would do more to take off upper body
weight than his last 10 years of work.

JT

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[Callistus Valerius]

> >
> > Nice to know he'll be back on a bike.
>
> And if he does good he MUST be on dope............
> That is your point right????

sounds reasonable to me.

 

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Kurgan Gringioni wrote:

> Dumbass -
>
> No, but he used to be good, therefore he used to be on dope
> (Laffertyism #1).
>
> Problem is, Heiden doesn't fit into the: he's arrogant, therefore
he's
> on dope (Laffertyism #2).


dumbass,

i don't think it's that simple. lafferty hates the 'power structure' of
cycling, the UCI and especially USAC. his lance hate (and past hate of
national team rider creed) is a way to put a face on that.

not only does he go on about lance being on dope he also goes on about
LA's lack of wins in other races and his tactical failures when he does
lose. the doping angle just happens to have more material.

 

[Warren]

"B Lafferty" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...

> Not at all. It's going to be fun to see what he looks like on a bike. I
> suspect that he's lost some of that top heavy muscle that he needed in
speed
> skating which hindered his climbing. As part of a team (I'm assuming this
> is how he'll ride RAAM) he could have lots of fun and possibly raise the
> profile of the race in 2005.

As others have said he did some grand tours. He has been riding occasionally
ever since. A bit of XC skiing too. He will be riding as part of a relay
team to raise money for Team Donate Life. http://www.teamdonatelife.com/

There will probably be 8 riders doing the RAAM relay. I think they're
planning on shifts with each rider riding about 90 minutes at a time, but
the little joke is that they may just strap Eric to his bike and make him
ride until he collapses.

-Warren

 

[Tom Kunich]

"Warren" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> "B Lafferty" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>
>> Not at all. It's going to be fun to see what he looks like on a bike. I
>> suspect that he's lost some of that top heavy muscle that he needed in
> speed
>> skating which hindered his climbing. As part of a team (I'm assuming
>> this
>> is how he'll ride RAAM) he could have lots of fun and possibly raise the
>> profile of the race in 2005.
>
> As others have said he did some grand tours. He has been riding
> occasionally
> ever since. A bit of XC skiing too. He will be riding as part of a relay
> team to raise money for Team Donate Life. http://www.teamdonatelife.com/
>
> There will probably be 8 riders doing the RAAM relay. I think they're
> planning on shifts with each rider riding about 90 minutes at a time, but
> the little joke is that they may just strap Eric to his bike and make him
> ride until he collapses.
>
> -Warren

Someone told me that Eric held the record time up Old La Honda Rd.