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From the Ashes
Last Post 05/16/2015 08:44 AM by Nicholas Arenella. 4 Replies.
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Nick A
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| 04/05/2015 08:14 PM |
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Saw the Team Rwanda documentary on Netflix. Very interesting. |
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zootracer
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| 04/06/2015 10:27 AM |
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Watched it last year on Netflix instant view. I enjoyed it.....
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Nick A
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| 04/07/2015 08:29 AM |
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I only just noticed it. I thought it was new. LOL. With Jock's past, and what he's doing now...life and people are complicated. I found it interesting how he didn't want' to delve into the history of the genocide. I'm the other side of that coin. I probably would have been too overwhelmed by it.
When I raced growing up in NY, he came out for a photo op (circa 1983) on The Gimbels Ride for the then new Winning Magazine. He happened to be staying with his friends in my suburban town. So when he asked how to get there after the ride, I was able to show him. Of course, a dozen guys who lived no where near there came along. I didn't want to bug him, so didn't talk to him at all. Especially since all of these guys were asking him dorked out gear questions. One guy asked him about training, and with virtually no inflection he answered, "I don't train, I just race". That's back when you did all of the classics, sometimes more than one grand tour, and even six days!
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huckleberry
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| 05/14/2015 03:21 PM |
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| Just watched it - a wonderful doc. |
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Nick A
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| 05/16/2015 08:44 AM |
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Huck,
I thought so too. But at the risk of a little bit of arm chair psychoanalyzing, it still struck me how he insulated himself from the history of Rwanda, at least at first. Also with his conviction, it reminded me of somebody who can compartmentalize. It's easy to speculate on the Internet, and he's a real person like you and me, but some people are public figures...
It is so super cool how some people (him, Ritchey, all of the riders) can make something so complex out of whole cloth like that.
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