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Awesome Bugno Photo

I'm sure this is exactly the face Bugno put-on in '99 when he was implicated in the trafficking of amphetamines...

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Cool guy though, and mad respect to him for being the only Italian helicopter rescue pilot who can double as a GQ model (though TwistedSpoke was first to report on GB's recently-expressed displeasure with the media's constantly highlighting his good looks and macho image at the expense of referring to his achievements as an athlete):

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Bugno could be one of the first notable Italian athletes to complain:
Cool guy though, and mad respect to him for being the only Italian helicopter rescue pilot who can double as a GQ model (though TwistedSpoke was first to report on GB's recently-expressed displeasure with the media's constantly highlighting his good looks and macho image at the expense of referring to his achievements as an athlete):

Kinda like Sarah Palin except good looking and talented.
 
Topangarider said:
Since LA has retired i guess the public will be denied seeing his Lycra perp walk

I mean, c'mon, someone must see the irony in the Bugno Polti Flanders photo? He's just won a major classic and yet looks like he's being perp-walked. For that photo to reappear at this particular moment? Priceless.
 
joe_papp said:
I mean, c'mon, someone must see the irony in the Bugno Polti Flanders photo? He's just won a major classic and yet looks like he's being perp-walked. For that photo to reappear at this particular moment? Priceless.

his expression does not say race winner. and those cops are not looking too happy.
 

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Bugno looks like a Rio Negro Shaman, interupted from an intensive Ayahuasca healing session. The Carbenieres are like giant red poison arrow frogs.
I think the vehicles next door are really Anacondas.
 
usedtobefast said:
his expression does not say race winner. and those cops are not looking too happy.

I guess it has to do w/ his being mortified at almost having lost the race to J.M. by raising his arms too soon - and the cops are ****ed that he won in the first place...?
 
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flicker said:
Bugno looks like a Rio Negro Shaman, interupted from an intensive Ayahuasca healing session. The Carbenieres are like giant red poison arrow frogs.
I think the vehicles next door are really Anacondas.

Which Yanamamo shaman's blowgun did you inhale? Where can I get some?
 
joe_papp said:
I guess it has to do w/ his being mortified at almost having lost the race to J.M. by raising his arms too soon - and the cops are ****ed that he won in the first place...?
a picture is a thousand words. those cops are like you little fing Italian. we are taking you to drug control now! and he is just brain dead from the race.
 
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Brilliant. I spotted this one too and thought it would make a brilliant caption competition.

After Polti he rode for Mapei where the deal was that he just had to look cool on a Colnago, which he did.