This season's cyclocross World Championships are in Hoogerheide, Netherlands. The official website is up and has a rather funny story about their home nation's star, and current World Champion, Lars Boom. I think the writer has a crush on Lars. Check out the glowing descriptions of Boom in the first couple paragraphs.

Lars Boom is 192 centimetres of Dutch pride with his blond hair and strong body. The rainbow jersey of the Cyclo-Cross World Championships in Treviso does not cover a slender climber's chest, but clings to a muscular torso. The cycling shorts tightly cling to his thighs the size of beeches. Lars Boom, 22 years old, is the Dutch world champion embodied, with a mission: becoming cyclo-cross world champion on 1 February 2009 in his own country, in Hoogerheide in Brabant

When he is testing a nasty, steep climb from the World Championships track, it looks as if he is cycling through a meadow on a sunny summer's day. Pure power varnished in suppleness. That is the climb that he can use to give the pack a real beating. Grass and weeds seem to bend aside for the world's best cyclo-cross rider. On top of the hill, he looks like a predator that has just spotted a prey. It's his track.

Did I ever mention crossing paths with Lars in the restroom of J. Bucks?