Yet Another Cycling Forum
General Category => Freewheeling => Racing => Topic started by: mattc on 12 July, 2011, 04:50:53 pm
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This guy is surely the new Tour hero. Must be worth a separate thread?!?
Pinched from the other one:
Hoogerland has 33 stitches, 11 in his buttocks, 11 near his knee, and 11 in his calf.
The stitches in his knee are very close to a tendon. He hopes these stitches will not cause him to DNS in the next stage.
His pants were completely ripped off. Maybe that's the reason there was no TV coverage of him getting out of the barbed wire.
A not very nice picture, but shows his injuries. Ouch
Tour De France 2011: Johnny Hoogerland (Vacansoleil-DCM) Extracts Himself From..., Photos | Cyclingnews.com (http://www.cyclingnews.com/tour-de-france/stage-9/photos/181772)
I can't find a video of his post-race interview (shown on ITV4) bit it was really moving: "Nobody means to do something like this". Wow.
Genuine tears on the podium, continuing despite 'orrible injuries, and astonishing compassion; is this guy for real?!? A great athlete and a gentleman.
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Genuine tears on the podium, continuing despite 'orrible injuries, and astonishing compassion; is this guy for real?!? A great athlete and a gentleman.
Just another cyclist and not a whinging footballer ;)
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"He certainly is Phil!" Sorry, wrong thread.
He certainly did show a huge amount of restraint.
Plus earlier: he carried on racing!
Just imagine what state you'd be in, waking up the following morning!!
In years to come, that 'arse' shot will be printed in books to show just how driven the racers continue to be, and how hard this particular race can prove to be.
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He is a flipping legend. Didn't show any outward signs of suffering on the climbs today, even though he must still be pretty damn sore.
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Aye.
Where's the Cool Wall (http://) when you need it ;D!
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Yep. Hero. He must be hurting, so I hope he manages to keep hold of the Polka dot
Yacf jersey for a few days more
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+1. Much respect to Johnny H. Hard as nails.
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+1, though for added authenticity, shouldn't the t-shirt be a bit er... "distressed"? ;)
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+1 more, at least. Given the success of the recent Weylandt multi-buy should we do another? Checking the website it doesn't seem to be available to buy just yet...
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I am so getting one of those! I could understand the sentiment behind the WW shirts but I found it just too sad... this is more of a celebration of the spirit of the bike racer.
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This is the man who can frighten The Stig and Chuck Norris with two looks! :thumbsup:
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I iz wanting teh t-shirt!
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Surely it should be a Johnny Hoogerland shorts multibuy ?
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Hero (http://www.supanet.com/the-great-escape-steve-mcqueen-9547866.jpg) :thumbsup:
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I'd love the t-shirt :) True MAN.
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Spare a thought for Juan-Antonio Flecha, who also demonstrated himself to be pretty nails yesterday. IIRC at one point he looked like he was attacking, although it could have just been a misidentification on the part of the colemantators.
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The T-shirt is now on sale - http://stomachofanger.com/hoogerland.shtml :thumbsup:
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Fletcha has my utmost admiration - to just get back on the bike is a really amazing achievement. Fletcha t-shirt anyone?
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Of course, the whole episode is just hilarious (http://www.bikebiz.com//news/read/barbed-wire-car-bike-tdf-smash-is-laughing-matter-tweets-us-tv-anchor), apparently.
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I can't find a video of his post-race interview (shown on ITV4) bit it was really moving: "Nobody means to do something like this". Wow.
NOS Sport - Hoogerland: "Baal verschrikkelijk" (http://nos.nl/video/255119-hoogerland-baal-verschrikkelijk.html)
I'm not sure whether it is available outside NL, and it lacks subtitling.
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I reckon he's faking the extent of his injuries and is going to spring a big attack today :)
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The only thing capable of stopping him (that wooden fencepost) is apparently due to be auctioned!