Agostinho
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Just found this photo.... Couldn't resist posting it.
This bloke was as tough as old boots!
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Is this BR Top Trumps ?
I'll match you with this:
Gilbert Duclos-Lasalle, tougher than Agostinho, so there :Pseanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
Some great hardman photos here:-
http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/paris%20roubaix
Love Jens Voigt covered in mud.0 -
I win:
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Not so fast batman:
seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
I see your mud and raise you snow & ice.
None of the above should be taken seriously, and certainly not personally.0 -
^^^Winner!!
That's madness! Cannot even begin to imagine what that must feel like.0 -
Think of the ordeal his hands must have been going through0
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I'd be crying & asking for my mummy by this point! I can handle a lot of sh*t, but horrible biting cold I cannot cope with unless i am kitted up. Brrr0
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Like the snow and ice. Paris-Nice?
Was going to try and top it with the broken nose but went for fisticuffs with les farmers instead:
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pinarello001 wrote:Is this BR Top Trumps ?
I'll match you with this:
Gilbert Duclos-Lasalle, tougher than Agostinho, so there :P
Not with suspension forks!0 -
Me-109 wrote:Like the snow and ice. Paris-Nice?
Was going to try and top it with the broken nose but went for fisticuffs with les farmers instead:
You may prefer this one. A shot of Bernard Hinault permanently losing the feeling in 2 fingers after riding through the snow in the 1980 Liege-Bastogne-Liege.
None of the above should be taken seriously, and certainly not personally.0 -
daviesee wrote:I see your mud and raise you snow & ice.
Not really the right rider though. That's Johan van der Velde who was first over the summit of the Gavia, but stopped in one of the refuges on the descent (what a lightweight! ) and finished 48 minutes down on the stage winner, Erik Breukink.
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How about Fiorenzo Magni?In the 1956 Giro d’Italia, stage 12, Fiorenzo Magni famously broke his left clavicle and still managed to finish 2nd place overall. At the hospital he refused a to put on a plaster cast and refused to abandon the Giro in the year of his announced retirement. Magni continued the race with his shoulder wrapped in an elastic bandage. To compensate for his inability to apply force with his left arm, he raced while holding a piece of rubber inner tube attached to his handlebar between his teeth for extra leverage. Since his injury prevented him from effectively braking and steering with his left hand, Magni crashed again after hitting a ditch by the road during a descent on stage 16. He fell on his already broken clavicle, breaking his humerus, after which he passed out from the pain. They put him in an ambulance, but when Magni regained his senses and realized that he was being taken to the hospital he screamed and told the driver to stop. Magni took his bike was able to finish the stage in the peloton, who had waited for him
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^^^^ New winner? ^^^^
I was aware but had forgot about that one.greasedscotsman wrote:Not really the right rider though.
If people are going to post photos on the web could they please tag them correctly to enable accurate Google searches.None of the above should be taken seriously, and certainly not personally.0 -
Agostinho sounds like quite a character - 3 years guerilla warfare before he started cycling - sounds like his death was preventable with proper medical treatment too.
it's a hard life if you don't weaken.0 -
With winter fast approaching I thought I'd revive this thread
I agree with daviesee about Andy Hampsten on stage 14 of the 1988 Giro d'Italia.
The image shows Hampsten near the top of Italy's famous Passo Gavia climb covered in snow, barely visible. :shock:
His efforts that day saw him take second place on the stage behind Dutchman Erik Breukink, he then went on to take the overall win"Arran, you are like the Tony Benn of smut. You have never diluted your depravity and always stand by your beliefs. You have my respect sir and your wife my pity"
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greasedscotsman wrote:daviesee wrote:I see your mud and raise you snow & ice.
Not really the right rider though. That's Johan van der Velde who was first over the summit of the Gavia, but stopped in one of the refuges on the descent (what a lightweight! ) and finished 48 minutes down on the stage winner, Erik Breukink.
Yeah, but van der Velde wasn't wearing arm warmers or mitts which are really girly!
Compare and contrast with this year where races in similar conditions were shortened or cancelled and the riders were dressed for an Artic expedition (and moaned a lot more too).0