An early spring taining ride up an alp called the Col de la Madeleine. It was raining and cold. U.S. Postal Team direction Johan Buryeel pulled alongside Armstrong in the follow car……
Johan : There’s snow 6km form the top. Lance : Huh? Johan : You can’t pass. Lance : How much snow. Johan : A lot. From an avalanche. Lance : What if I keep going? Johan : You can’t. 3 meters of snow. Guy says there’s no way you can ride. No way. Lance : Who says that?
…….. in the end, they stopped before the avalanche spot. Johan told Lance to get in the car, told him he was done for the day. Armstrong begged to differ. “I think I’m going to ride a little more, go down 10K and come back.”……. Armstrong vanished down the mountain, Johan stood in the rain, his grin cutting the gloom.
“That’s what it takes to win the Tour,” Johan said, “Training in this weather. Nobody sees that.”
Reigning champion Fernando Alonso cruised to his fifth win this season in Sunday's British GP at Silverstone from pole position to the top of the podium ahead of Ferrari's Michael Schumacher and Kimi Raikkonen (McLaren) for his 14th straight F1 podium to extend his championship lead to 23 points.
"Victory today was quite ok for us," said the Spaniard. "Yesterday with winning pole position things became a little easier and then we saw that we had more fuel than the others and this helped in terms of strategy. "This is good news for the rest of the season, but we have to take the advantage now - in the first two laps after the safety car Kimi was really quick. "Winning in Spain Monaco and Silverstone is a dream come true. There is a great atmosphere at this circuit and to win in this country, 20 minutes away from my home in Oxford is a really great feeling." Jenson Button's miserable home race ended after nine laps, when he spun off on oil from his broken Honda engine. Until that point, Button had looked as if he might salvage something from the disappointment of qualifying only 19th because of a team error. He made up five places on the opening lap and was up to 12th, and looking set to score points, before his untimely retirement.
Fernando Alonso took pole postition at the F1 British GP as Jenson Button managed only 19th place on the grid.
The English Honda driver was eliminated in the 1st session, leaving a strong result in Sunday's race a distant hope. Michael Schumacher's Ferrari had been fastest until the final runs, when Alonso grabbed pole with a lap of 1'20"253. McLaren's Kimi Raikkonen also got ahead of Schumacher to demote the German to third ahead of team-mate Felipe Massa.
Alonso had been just 0.043secs behind Schumacher before going into the last runs and he admitted he thought be might have lost his chance to beat the German. tag:F1
World No.1 and top seed Roger Federer against World No.2 and second seed Rafael Nadal in the final of Roland Garros. It couldn't have been scripted any better. Sunday's match between the two evokes memories of past Grand Slam finals between the top two players in the world – Sampras vs Agassi, McEnroe vs Borg for example.
Federer, of course, is trying to become the first player since Rod Laver in 1969 to win four straight Grand Slam events, a streak that began at Wimbledon last year. Meanwhile, Nadal is seeking to extend his Open Era record of 59 straight matches won on clay and defend his crown in Paris (d. Puerta in 2005).
Federer, 24, hails from Switzerland, while Nadal who turned 20 last Saturday, comes from Spain. The two have met six times during their ATP careers, with Nadal coming out on top in five of those encounters, including all three times on clay. Last year at Roland Garros, the Spanish sensation took out Federer in the semifinals.
「有次在比賽中射入二十三球後，自己名字就第一次在報紙上出現，那年，我十三歲！」一直把剪報保存至今的「細哨」，射術確不下於腳法；然而「入波」對他來說，不盡為球隊爭勝，更是遵從父親的遺訓。
雖 然十一歲已加盟美奧青年軍的長子羅拔圖，曾獲不少教練讚許，但「老哨」遠望僅得八歲的「細哨」說：「羅拔圖不錯呀！但你們千萬要留意另一個朗拿甸奴，他將 來會是世界上最出色的球員。」也許天機不可洩露，「老哨」發表預言後不久，就在長子十八歲生日、也是自己結婚十九周年當天，於泳池內心臟病發…….！
Fernando Alonso took pole postition at the F1 British GP as Jenson Button managed only 19th place on the grid.
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