No,miss Fede didn't take a pause from her blog because she had decided to escape to the sea in order to meet again her latest 'love'. No, she didn't do that, especially because she doesn't have enough money to do so. Simply, the lack of her posts over the last days was due to the fact that she's recently been pretty busy with her offline life and with organising plans that always ended up with her meeting her love by chance and her love moving to the cold Bergamo to stay with her. Girls, follow my advice: never fall in love with someone who lives 500 kms away from you!! ;)
RANDOM LINKS DU COMEBACK:
http://blog.tv2.dk/chris.anker.ol/entry380839.html and http://blog.tv2.dk/chris.anker.ol/entry380453.html : hoping that you didn't forget about him during my absence, here are the links to Chris Anker Sorensen's latest blog entries. A friend of Chris' parents complained about the lack of new blog posts during the first part of August and, to resolve the problem, Chris wrote two new entries in just 5 days (*wow!'*). In those entries he talks about how low his morale was during the week between the end of the Tour and San Sebastian, says he had a good holiday near Venice with his girlfriend and he also gives an important tip to cyclists who travel a lot: always put your cycling shoes and cycling helmet in your hand-luggage, and not in your suitcase. Chris took this advice from Lars Bonde and luckily he followed it also during his flight towards San Sebastian. In fact,on that occasion his suitcase got lost,but he could race with his cycling shoes and his own helmet anyway.
http://www.bergamonews.it/sport/articolo.php?id=17037 : interview with Alessandro Vanotti. Ale is a great rider and an excellent helper who, unfortunately, broke his collarbone and ended his season last week. I wish him a very fast recover and hope to see him back on the roads (of Bergamo and of the rest of Europe) very quickly.
http://www.schleckfans.com/ : as you probably already know, Frank Schleck and Martine celebrated their religious wedding on Saturday. On the official website of the brothers there are some pictures of the celebration. Obviously,miss Fede wishes Frank, Martine and the little Leea a long, healthy, happy and serene life together as a family!!
MARKETING NEWS:
As everyone already knows, next year Menchov and Sastre are racing for team Geox-la scarpa che respira ('The shoe that breathes'- that's what the motto of the company says...). As well as Menchov, Rabobank will also lose Posthuma, who hasn't announced his new team yet.
RANDOM LINKS DU COMEBACK:
http://blog.tv2.dk/chris.anker.ol/entry380839.html and http://blog.tv2.dk/chris.anker.ol/entry380453.html : hoping that you didn't forget about him during my absence, here are the links to Chris Anker Sorensen's latest blog entries. A friend of Chris' parents complained about the lack of new blog posts during the first part of August and, to resolve the problem, Chris wrote two new entries in just 5 days (*wow!'*). In those entries he talks about how low his morale was during the week between the end of the Tour and San Sebastian, says he had a good holiday near Venice with his girlfriend and he also gives an important tip to cyclists who travel a lot: always put your cycling shoes and cycling helmet in your hand-luggage, and not in your suitcase. Chris took this advice from Lars Bonde and luckily he followed it also during his flight towards San Sebastian. In fact,on that occasion his suitcase got lost,but he could race with his cycling shoes and his own helmet anyway.
http://www.bergamonews.it/sport/articolo.php?id=17037 : interview with Alessandro Vanotti. Ale is a great rider and an excellent helper who, unfortunately, broke his collarbone and ended his season last week. I wish him a very fast recover and hope to see him back on the roads (of Bergamo and of the rest of Europe) very quickly.
http://www.schleckfans.com/ : as you probably already know, Frank Schleck and Martine celebrated their religious wedding on Saturday. On the official website of the brothers there are some pictures of the celebration. Obviously,miss Fede wishes Frank, Martine and the little Leea a long, healthy, happy and serene life together as a family!!
MARKETING NEWS:
As everyone already knows, next year Menchov and Sastre are racing for team Geox-la scarpa che respira ('The shoe that breathes'- that's what the motto of the company says...). As well as Menchov, Rabobank will also lose Posthuma, who hasn't announced his new team yet.
As far as Saxo Bank is concerned, the Danish exodus is going on, since Anders Lund has announced he'll leave the team as well.
AUSTRALIA, AUSTRALIA:
The Worlds are coming nearer and nearer, so here are news about some national teams.
ITALY: As every year, here comes the time of the season when miss Fede becomes more patriotic than usual. It seems that Bettini won't take Petacchi and Bennati 'down under', while it seems that the captain of the Squadra will be Pozzato (can you imagine what he will do to the rainbow jersey if he becomes World Champion???). Also Visconti and Paolini will probably race in Melbourne, while there are about other 10 riders (Ginanni, Nibali, Cunego, Tonti, Pinotti,Santambrogio, Tosatto, Oss, Belletti,Ballan and Nocentini) on Bettini's long-list.
AUSTRALIA: the road race team will be formed by Baden Cooke, Allan Davis, Cadel Evans, Simon Gerrans, Matthew Goss, Mathew Hayman, Stuart O'Grady, Michael Rogers and Wesley Sulzberger. As you can see, both McEwen (*noooo!*) and Haussler (poor Heinrich had too many troubles this year) didn't make it to the selection. The team however seems very good to me, especially if you consider that in it there are guys who can sprint, guys who can work and guys who can climb. As far as the TT team is concerned, it will be formed by Rogers and by Richie Porte (yay!).
GERMANY: the road race team will be formed by Marcus Burghardt, Bert Grabsch, André Greipel, Danilo Hondo, Christian Knees, Sebastian Lang, Tony Martin, Marcel Sieberg and Fabian Wegmann. Germany has some good cards to play, since Greipel and Hondo are very fast and Sieberg is a member of Columbia's lead-out train. Martin and Grabsch will race also the TT race (and they could also get a medal). Anyway this selection of riders leaves Fangirl with an unanswered question: DOES GERMANY COACH REALLY WANT TO FLY TO MELBOURNE WITHOUT THE FUCKING AMAZING JENS VOIGT?!?
AUSTRALIA, AUSTRALIA:
The Worlds are coming nearer and nearer, so here are news about some national teams.
ITALY: As every year, here comes the time of the season when miss Fede becomes more patriotic than usual. It seems that Bettini won't take Petacchi and Bennati 'down under', while it seems that the captain of the Squadra will be Pozzato (can you imagine what he will do to the rainbow jersey if he becomes World Champion???). Also Visconti and Paolini will probably race in Melbourne, while there are about other 10 riders (Ginanni, Nibali, Cunego, Tonti, Pinotti,Santambrogio, Tosatto, Oss, Belletti,Ballan and Nocentini) on Bettini's long-list.
AUSTRALIA: the road race team will be formed by Baden Cooke, Allan Davis, Cadel Evans, Simon Gerrans, Matthew Goss, Mathew Hayman, Stuart O'Grady, Michael Rogers and Wesley Sulzberger. As you can see, both McEwen (*noooo!*) and Haussler (poor Heinrich had too many troubles this year) didn't make it to the selection. The team however seems very good to me, especially if you consider that in it there are guys who can sprint, guys who can work and guys who can climb. As far as the TT team is concerned, it will be formed by Rogers and by Richie Porte (yay!).
GERMANY: the road race team will be formed by Marcus Burghardt, Bert Grabsch, André Greipel, Danilo Hondo, Christian Knees, Sebastian Lang, Tony Martin, Marcel Sieberg and Fabian Wegmann. Germany has some good cards to play, since Greipel and Hondo are very fast and Sieberg is a member of Columbia's lead-out train. Martin and Grabsch will race also the TT race (and they could also get a medal). Anyway this selection of riders leaves Fangirl with an unanswered question: DOES GERMANY COACH REALLY WANT TO FLY TO MELBOURNE WITHOUT THE FUCKING AMAZING JENS VOIGT?!?
UPDATE:
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/andy-schleck-rules-himself-out-of-world-championships .Andy Schleck announced that he's not going to take part in the Worlds this year, because he wants to focus on Tour of Lombardy. I think that this is understandable if you consider that this year the Worlds are very far from Luxembourg and their parcours doesn't suit Andy very much. As well as that, if he ends la Vuelta, it will be difficult for him to fly 'down under' and race there in just 2 weeks time.
Andy's decision however is going to have bad effects on the quality of the Luxembourg team that we'll see in action in Melbourne on the 3rd of October. In fact, also Frank and Laurent Didier may decide not to race the Worlds, while Kim Kirchen hasn't taken part in any race since he suffered a heart attack in June.
Now you can feel as the real romantic heroine who is longing for her true love! His old-fashioned name is only helping with it;)
RispondiEliminaI have a little technical question: did you find more wedding's photos on: frankschleckofficial.com?
Oh, and don't spend too much time on the balcony, because it isn't known whether your Romeo will ever appear...
Kisses
I actually couldn't find any picture of the wedding on frankschleckofficial.com, while there are some on http://www.schleckfans.com/ (and a few that I hadn't seen before are on http://www.lovetripper.com/bridalstars/celebrity-weddings/2010/08/cyclist-frank-schleck-marries.html). Perhaps they're uploading them in a few days time, or perhaps Frank and the person who updates the website made a little 'confusion mistake' by writing that we would have found more pictures on Frank's official page.
RispondiEliminaThank you for your 'Romeo advice',it is very wise and I will try to follow it :) After all,'Everything begins and ends', so I suppose it's time I stopped daydreaming about him and started to focus myself on other things.
You consoled me a bit. I already thought that I’m too stupid to use Frank’s website...
RispondiEliminaAndy’s absence in the world championships actually pleases me... because almost certainly I won’t be able to watch and I would feel sad, if I missed something really interesting.
Anyway it will be broadcasted at absurd hours, after all it is Australia.
I am also not surprised with Andy’s decision (more I was surprised that he wanted to go there).
And you would like to send also Jens to this end of the world, as if he didn't have his eye on more interesting things ;)
So let Pozzato win championships - he wants it so much, he is talking about it all the time probably for half a year. Then he will do the commemorative tattoo, get the new jersey and won’t have to show up bare in the advertisements of the footwear. And it’s what I wish him, You and myself!
Giving such pessimistic advices wasn't my intention.
To say the truth,you consoled me as well. When I realised I couldn't see the pictures anywhere, I also thought I was missing something obvious in my own stupidity. Instead, more simply, it's the website that gave a wrong information :)
RispondiEliminaI actually don't dare to think about the time zone difference between Italy and Australia.I love the Worlds and not being able to watch them because of the time zone is a big worry of mine.
I just love the excitement of that race: you stay glued to your television all day long, waiting for the decisive moment to come and feeling worried every time a dangerous breakaway takes off...No doubts, the Worlds are my favourite one-day race.
Jens probably prefers staying at home with his family rather than flying down under, but (according to Fangirl) a German team without Jens is like a bike without a wheel... ;)
Gosh,I hadn't thought about the commemorative tattoo yet!! That would be scaring!!
I don't think your advice was pessimistic. Actually, I think it was very wise and I appreciated it a lot. What happened while I was at sea was wonderful, but I don't think there will be something serious between me and him in the future. It's not that I'm going to eliminate him completely from my life (I still can't help thinking about him sometimes), but I simply have to be realistic and admit that, in spite of all my dreams, it is very unlikely for him to become the boyfriend of a girl who lives 500 kms from him... And even if the 'miracle' happened, well, I think we would find ourselves in a very difficult situation (it's a 7 hours travel from my city to his, we both study and I don't have a driving license yet; therefore, we could meet each other on a very few occasions).
Btw, I wrote the most pessimistic part ('everything begins and ends') of my previous comment because your advice reminded me of those words, which a colleague of 'my man' said to a friend of mine (who had fallen in love with him) on the eve of our departure.So,'the pessimistic part' isn't your fault at all :)
So you are insisting that advice was wise... so I am accepting it meekly.
RispondiEliminaAnd when next time I will express the similar opinion and my friends will state again that I am a beastly monkey (it isn't literal quotation... but that's the point) I will tell them that there is Italian girl who thinks my advices are very sage, while they are ignorant. That's what I will tell them :]