Our brief cold snap has rolled in today. Today was in the teens virtually all day but it felt tolerable because of the bright sun. Tonight the temperatures drop even further to just above zero and are supposed to reach mid-teens for highs tomorrow. I'll be picking a good stage from a recent Tour and popping it in the VCR.
My weight has settled down to a respectable number. I believe it was 155 today.
News Item of the Day: Ramini - The prosecutors office in Rimini has decided to charge three drug dealers in connection with the death of former Tour de France winner, Marco Pantani, Italian media reported on Thursday.
Prosecutor Paolo Gengarelli said that his investigations in the Pantani death had been completed and that three men would be charged with drug dealing resulting in death. The three are said to have supplied huge quantities of cocaine to Pantani since December 2003 and also sold him the fatal dose, thereby being directly implicated in his death.
The three dealers were in competition with each other and supplied huge quantities of between 50g and 70g to Pantani," Gengarelli said. The drugs are said to have been obtained in Naples and then brought to Rimini, where Pantani, who was suffering from depression, had stayed.
The former Tour winner, who also won the Giro dItalia, was found dead from a drug overdose in a hotel room in Rimini on February 14 this year. Police thereafter investigated the drug scene in Rimini.
It is expected that a 30-year-old woman, as well as another man will also be charged in connection with the case, but it is believed that they will be charged only with drug dealing, not with drug dealing resulting in death. - Sapa-dpa
Viewpoint: Pantani was such a sad tale. What a dynamic climber Marco was to watch. He was one of my favorites starting in about '94 when he was with the old Carrera team and still had a little hair. His eventual doping violations and the cocaine overdose has forever tarnished my memory of him. His climbing style was completely different from mine but whenever I'm climbing well, it is Marco who drifts through my mind with the fantasy that I look even half as good as he did going up the side of a mountain.
My weight has settled down to a respectable number. I believe it was 155 today.
News Item of the Day: Ramini - The prosecutors office in Rimini has decided to charge three drug dealers in connection with the death of former Tour de France winner, Marco Pantani, Italian media reported on Thursday.
Prosecutor Paolo Gengarelli said that his investigations in the Pantani death had been completed and that three men would be charged with drug dealing resulting in death. The three are said to have supplied huge quantities of cocaine to Pantani since December 2003 and also sold him the fatal dose, thereby being directly implicated in his death.
The three dealers were in competition with each other and supplied huge quantities of between 50g and 70g to Pantani," Gengarelli said. The drugs are said to have been obtained in Naples and then brought to Rimini, where Pantani, who was suffering from depression, had stayed.
The former Tour winner, who also won the Giro dItalia, was found dead from a drug overdose in a hotel room in Rimini on February 14 this year. Police thereafter investigated the drug scene in Rimini.
It is expected that a 30-year-old woman, as well as another man will also be charged in connection with the case, but it is believed that they will be charged only with drug dealing, not with drug dealing resulting in death. - Sapa-dpa
Viewpoint: Pantani was such a sad tale. What a dynamic climber Marco was to watch. He was one of my favorites starting in about '94 when he was with the old Carrera team and still had a little hair. His eventual doping violations and the cocaine overdose has forever tarnished my memory of him. His climbing style was completely different from mine but whenever I'm climbing well, it is Marco who drifts through my mind with the fantasy that I look even half as good as he did going up the side of a mountain.
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