An uphill start in Andorra.
Two thirds of Team Condor have a headache.
The headache is not only the result of drinking too much Albariño at yesterday's picnic.
Although that didn't help much.
No, the headache is that Sweezus is back.
......
On the uphill stretch:
Arthur: I'm the team leader.
Pablo: I know
Arthur: So how is it that he gets to make up the attack plan?
Gaius: Calm down, Arthur. What's YOUR attack plan?
Arthur: I haven't made up an attack plan
Gaius: Then why not use his?
Pablo: What is it?
Gaius: Get in a breakaway early. Stay in front. Try and annoy Peter Sagan.
Arthur: Wonderful. I don't want to annoy Peter Sagan,
Pablo: Me either.
Gaius: The question for you two is, who do you not want to annoy the most?
They ride on, uphill, each weighing the consequences of various courses of action.
.......
Later with forty kilometres to go, it is raining, and a cross wind blows cross-wise.
Team Philosophe is struggling.
Vello: Why, oh why do we do this?
David: For the fame.
Marx: I do it for the people.
Vello: These clowns? Look at them! Tooting and clapping and getting in the way with their stupid umbrellas.
Marx: Is that Terence?
David: Couldn't be. He's with Belle.
Marx: It looks like him. And the parrot.
Vello: All I can see is feet.
David: Good man. Keep your head down. Remember our attack plan.
Vello: I invented the attack plan. I'm not likely to forget it.
Marx: To be effective you must not only remember it, but excecute......
David: Watch out man, there goes Luke Durbridge! He's splitting the breakaway!
Vello: Damn! And there goes Matthews. And Impey. And Sagan!
Marx: Was that part of our plan?
Vello: No. It wasn't.
......
Back a few hundred metres, under a large umbrella, two cement feet and two parrot ones.
Terence: So what happened to the bear cub?
Parrot: It was wounded.
Terence: But how?
Parrot: It had an accident. A hunter tried to kill it. It walked and walked. Then it lay down to die.
Terence: Is this a happy story?
Parrot: Yes. The drop of water dropped by the angel from the water jug fell to earth and produced a beautiful red flower. Like the one I had yesterday.
Terence: Where is it?
Parrot: Right next to the poor sleeping bear cub. And when it wakes up, it feels better.
Terence: Why?
Parrot: Sometimes nice things like that happen.
......
That may sound lame, but sometimes nice things do happen.
To Michael Matthews, for instance, when he wins today's stage.
And outsprints Peter Sagan.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment