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He rode the Giro in 2000 and 2001 for Panaria-Gaerne when he was 24 and 25, then achieved some results in the U.S. for Navigators the following year, and that was it. He was 26. He seemed to quit pro and went home after that. Does anyone know why? Homesick? Didn't want to dope? I...

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Us Aussies like to tell "coulda woulda shoulda" stories about blokes, especially footballers, who would've superstars had they only stuck it out, but isn't it true that Sweet was every bit as fast as McEwen, even faster?

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Is it just me, or was the camera-work/producing lacking a little in the last few hundred metres? We obviously saw Thomas cross the line, but that was about it; we barely saw who came 3rd and 4th, and i didn't see the rest of the bunch come in. Or did I look away again at the wrong...

^ Ha! Thanks. I thought they were gunna go the other way, but no. :) It looks like 1 or 2 of the links have gone, but I had a quick look at them last week

I dunno if this is true, but I heard that Phil Anderson once said: "When flabby white guys start flying past me up mountains at 35km/h, you know something's fishy" :p

Thanks for the replies about Goss

Ha! Yep, maybe McEwen knows more about bunch sprinting that Philbie. Gold :D

I wasn't concentrating. :p Where the hell was Goss?

Yeah, or "stingers", as Letterman likes to categorize them all. He seems to have a fascination with the joint, and I'm surprised he hasn't been here :p

As long as he never had to speak (apart from the fact that his upper body is too big), coz that broad Aussie accent would keep bleeding through :D

I are tellin' yooz, Owen Wilson would be a dead ringer for Ballstrong if he had the same hair. Someone photoshop it :D