Candi Murray

Happy April Fool's Day from VeloNews.com
Posted Apr. 1, 2008
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Davis and Connie are sticking with what they got. You'll have to make your
own
It's been something of a tradition here at VeloNews to start the month of
April with things a bit skewed from the normal. In the past, on April 1st,
we've fired Patrick O'Grady, revealed the development of new mag-lev wheel
bearings, declared Dick Pound to be head of the UCI (with Hein Verbruggen
taking the helm of WADA) and scorched the French countryside with fatally
flawed sunflowers that perfectly match the color of the Maillot Jaune. Yup,
it's April Fool's Day.

This morning we announced the establishment of the Connie Carpenter and
Davis Phinney sperm and egg bank for those parents who want to take a
short-cut to raising a world champion. Some of you spotted it for what it
was ("Thanks for carrying on a fun tradition ... and don't sign me up for a
Phinney-Carpenter kid; I don't want my four-year-old dropping me on family
rides!" writes one observant reader), while others got suckered in ("I have
the utmost respect for what Carpenter and Phinney accomplished on the bike
over their careers ... but, are these people completely crazy?" writes
another).

Just for the record,

Carpenter and Phinney are not starting a "champions' factory"
Michael Ball is not trying to buy time, nor is OJ Simpson his spokesman.
OBRA is not going to ban Astana
ASO hasn't banned radios... yet.
And we're not reverting to a site plan that is based on the needs of those
with 14.4kbs modems... really.
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We got more than 200 emails, some from the appreciative, some from the
outraged and some from those who suggest we leave the comedy to The Onion.
We'll run a selection of the best, tomorrow.

Candi Murray