Rasmussen – very shaky, but has returned 14 negative tests so far. He missed two local and two international tests during his training. Three by any body is an automatic positive and suspension, so he was on thin ice. Where there’s smoke there’s fire, and he’s like a Cuban Snooker Bar – lying to his team manager where he was training? These guys do dodgy training in far flung parts of the world, and you just don’t know what they do behind the scenes. But they definitely don’t just have pronutro for brekkies and energade in the bottle.
If this is the look of a healthy person in peak physical condition, then I’d hate to see him when he’s sick. Yes you guessed it, he does bear a striking resemblance to Timmy, that’s why they call him ‘The Chicken”.
There’s a big showdown come Saturday for the Yellow Jersey. Cadel Evans won the last Inidividual Timetrial, and has just under 2 minutes to pull back Alberto Contador. Anything less than 30 seconds delta and we could actually have a race on Sunday’s final stage. They’re probably both on untraceable jungle juice, and who wants an aussie to win anyway?
Luckily our Barlowworld boys have far exceeded the predictions. Juan Maricio Soler from Colombia had the Polka Dot Jersey sewn up before the Chicken got fried. Of course he’s also on some sort of crack, climbs like a praying mantis. Then our very own Robbie Hunter, is second in the points classification. He’s 22 points behind the leader, Tom Boonen, but needs some real luck to overtake him. He just can’t compete with the Quickstep leadout team on his own, and should probably just try hold onto second.
Not from this years tour, but this is why the Argus is such a non-event, Suikerbossie looks like a pimple.
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