Judy Richardson DMS01
um... what's your point?
That we've come along way from suffrage by bike to
suffering by bike? Get with today's news: equal race
distances = equal payouts.
Where've you been this past week? Hope you didn't miss her:
http://www.oregonlive.com/outdoors/index.ssf/2008/05/winnin
g_isnt_everything.html
No small feat for the 19 year old Beveridge and our repeat
champ, Goldstein (both tough as nails chicks) who beat her.
In sum: Merckx, Coppi, Hinault, that Lance guy: Jeannie
Longo-Ciprelli should be at the top of that list, but do
you know her? She has more than 900 career victories, the
most of *ANY* cyclist in history. She has an Olympic gold
medal, four time world road champ, reigning national road
and TT champ, three time winner of Tour Cycliste Feminin
(that's the women's TDF, fyi) and holds 38 world records,
52 national titles and 13 world titles. And she was here,
racing on Natio Parkway, Mt. Tabor, Cooper and Hood River.
The French have a term for someone like Jeannie: they
invariably describe her as a monstre sacr`e. Picasso was a
monstre sacr`e and so were Stravinski and the young A`ndre
Malraux. Literally, the words mean a sacred monster - an
extraordinary character who dominates a field, often
controversially, with slight regard for the niceties. A
less literal translation might be "holy terror".
Oh let that diminutive grace my epitaph, maybe i'll
consider my life well spent.
By the way, we quit wearing riding underwear, and caring
that anyone knew, a long time ago...
Judy Richardson
Sorella Forte
---david hart wrote ---
http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/wayoflife/05/20/women.bicycl
ing/index.html
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