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Date: 12 Aug 2007 18:05:19
From: dustoyevsky@mac.com
Subject: Tour of Columbia
http://sports.yahoo.com/sc/news?slug=ap-tourofcolombia&prov=ap&type=lgns

Appropriate breakin' da rules (no spoiler in header).

Only 10,875'? I didn't see any course profiles in Cycling News--
doesn't that race include at least some 12's? --D-y





 
Date: 12 Aug 2007 23:24:28
From: Mike G
Subject: Re: Tour of Columbia
In article <1186967119.662984.90510@r34g2000hsd.googlegroups.com >,
"dustoyevsky@mac.com" <dustoyevsky@mac.com > wrote:

> http://sports.yahoo.com/sc/news?slug=ap-tourofcolombia&prov=ap&type=lgns
>
> Appropriate breakin' da rules (no spoiler in header).
>
> Only 10,875'? I didn't see any course profiles in Cycling News--
> doesn't that race include at least some 12's? --D-y

Goodman uses one of my favorites in his write-up - "Escarabajos".

The nickname given to all the little tiny guys from that area that are typically
great in the mountains...

"Beetles".

Love that...

Mike G.
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Date: 13 Aug 2007 09:15:57
From: Ewoud Dronkert
Subject: Re: Tour of Columbia
Mike G wrote:
> "dustoyevsky@mac.com" <dustoyevsky@mac.com> wrote:
>> (no spoiler in header).

You confused Colombia and Columbia.

> Goodman uses one of my favorites in his write-up - "Escarabajos".
>
> The nickname given to all the little tiny guys from that area that are typically
> great in the mountains...
>
> "Beetles".

Yeah, dung beetles!


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E. Dronkert