Pieter Henning

Hi everyone Im part of a development program at work, and to kick off the program we've been given a challenge: create a short YouTube clip on 'Health and Wellness', and the person with the most views on YouTube by 14 August will be declared the winner. If you don't mind, please give it a quick view - it has a good message on why a healthy lifestyle is important. Here's the link below: Thanks. Pieter

Yeah, what has happened to George? He dissapeared from the scene completely after getting sick at Trans-Alps (if I recall correctly). Haven't heard of him doing a road or MTB race since. Did MTN fire him, did he leave or is he still with them?

They also made a Madone out of chocolate. No jokes.

Haha, ja we have none of that here, but with traffic and taxi's I can see why no one would want to train here. I'm coming down in January so maybe I'll be lucky enough to spot some of those guys on the road. Went to the Eindhoven TTT (when the Pro Tour was in its first year and all 20 the teams had to take part in all the events) and managed to sneak into the warm-up area inside a big hangar-like building where all the team buses were parked and all the riders on their rollers. I was still a kid and had only seen these guys on tv before. was one of the coolest days ever for me.Phen2009-11-24 02:38:04

Wow, didn't know Ciolek also trains here. Super talent that guy!

Good luck with your venture. You'd have to pull out all the stops if you wanna compete with the KOB. Live racing commentary will be greatly appreciated by a lot of folks

Some of them are worse than others (particularly the two closest to the golf course - their angles are completely wrong and it's like hitting a wall). These things can't be good for roadbikes. Broke a spoke by going over on of them at a fairly low speed last week. Pity they cannot make 30cm on each side for roadies to pass. It will still slow down cars and I'm happy to take the risk of running into an animal on my bike (the chance of this happening is not gonna be much different whether I'm doing 28km/h or 40km/h). It's great what they're doing on the MTB side, but they're killing an awesome training place for roadies (and in Pretoria there are few enough nice places to ride).

All the speed humps are just a pain in the arse for the roadies, but I suppose it's a fair trade for the enhanced safety, wildlife and MTB routes, so won't complain. Still one of the nicest places to train in PTA.

Yikes, are the people okay?

Pantani, is that Darren Lill in the bottom right hand corner of the photo (and on one of the other pics)?

Possibly another medal coming before the end of the championships.Phen2009-09-04 00:19:20

Lap 4 Stander starts the 4th lap with a gap of 51 seconds on Vuillermoz. Litscher 3rd at 1:11, Sagan 4th at 2:02, Fl?ckiger 5th at 2:04, Soto 6th at 2:06, Konwa 7th at 2:32, Wengelin 8th, Vinit 9th, Lukas Kaufmann (Switzerland) 10th. At the first feedzone, Stander has 57 sec on Vuillermoz. Litscher in 3rd is at 1:33 back. Sagan now alone in 4th at 2:40, Soto 5th at 3 min, Konwa 6th at 3:20. Fl?ckiger appears to have had a problem (crash or mechanical) as he has dropped back to 22ndPhen2009-09-03 23:24:18

Nah, he's elite next year. Man this is looking good, only 2 more laps - GO BURRY!!!

Anybody know where I can watch the race on live streaming tomorrow morning? It's on 6AM SA time.

Nothing broken luckily, just road rash and sore muscles. Lot of cracked carbon bits on the bike, but the insurance should cover that, no problem. All the other guys also got back up and rode to the finish, so nobody injured seriously. The other Toyota guys (Jock Green and Johan v/d Merwe) this person is referring to also went down in this crash. Big bunch, high speed, simple touch of wheels. Not foul play.

So if it happened with 3km to go how did someone claiming to stand close to the finish line witness this? A bunch of us hit the deck with about 3km to go, but I don't think that it was a result of the alleged shirt pulling. I'm not sure what happened between those guys in the sprint, but saying Johan is always like that and that he can't stand losing is simply just not true. Either way the riders / managers / relevant officials would've seen to the situation after the finish, so this lame topic post is a little bit unnecessary.

Looks cold!

Cool photo's! Must've been awesome to be there in the thick of the action

1st position at World Championships = Gold medal. Hence the gold tape and golden fork?

Well here's the video. Starts at the moment where Contador attacks. Shows some old guy pacing a lot, then a German guy pacing a lot. Maybe the video was edited. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqeYm0L1cyc

Just for interest sake, Contador received that dog as a prize for the stage victory. Wonder if he'll keep it. Immediately after Contador went it was clear that Kloden was pacing flat out with Lance on his wheel. You'd have to be blind to have missed that. Dunno if it was perhaps to try and catch up to Andy who was just in front of them (and just behind Contador), but either way they were pacing, and they were riding hard. Yet some people are still seeing what they want to see, so no point in arguing I guess.

When? Today?