Recent content by Bobito

No! No! He's the greatest American rider in 7 years and an exemplar of what old men can still do if they put their minds to it.

That he won at all at his age is simply incredible, in the old-fashioned sense of the word. No one should need power numbers to prove that a dog is a dog.

American healthcare.

So now all the 30 year old competition is so clean that they can't beat a grandpa? At any rate, i's good to have confirmation that Purito is clean.

I'm not insinuating anything. I'm simply very impressed that a man over 40 can do what no man over 40 has ever done in the history of the world, which is outride a bunch of younger men for three weeks. I'm old enough now to find this quite incredible. I wish I knew how he did it, because it's...

I'd claim that any time someone over 40 wins an endurance athletic competition against top tier elite competitors of normal age the burden is on them to prove that they are not doping. Historically there are no examples of such performances (someone will supply two examples to prove me wrong)...

He's 40+. Empirically that's an enormous gigantic tremendous counter indicator to winning any kind of elite sporting event (please don't give Bernard Hopkins as a counter example ...)

In my lifetime I've already seen some amazing breakaway climbs in grand tours made by American cyclists, but this is the first one I've seen by someone over-the-hill, so to speak, so you're probably right that we won't see this again soon. Surely the youngsters will figure out how to keep up...

Some of us are over 40 and understand what it takes to win the Vuelta at such an age.

It's a great inspiration for middle-aged men everywhere to see a man become for the first time a great champion, and in such a dominant way, over the age of 40. Such perserverance in the face of aging gives us all hope.

I knew some people involved in Atlanta's successful bid to get the Olympics. The children of lots of voters later all managed to get into some very good US universities ... It's all about who pays the most and who meets the IOC's ($$$) needs. Spain's bidders believed themselves to be big time...

You forgot Michael Owen.

this seems to answer your question: http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/schistosomiasis/Pages/Introduction.aspx

While I don't argue with the conclusion of the article (Bolt using so-and-so as trainer is bad news), it is pretty naive about boxing. Many fairly neutral observers believe that Marquez beat Pacquiao every time they fought (count me among them). That doesn't deny that Marquez was unnaturally...

The comparison with diving in football is not very good. First, in some countries many children are actually taught to dive. It does not explicitly violate any rule. It's a way of improving the odds. Also it is rarely sanctioned. I personally hate it, and teach my children not to do it, but it's...