That was an awesome finish. Kinda long for Cav. Haussler is sitting up because he’d just led out Goss.
People keep sayin’ this and it keeps not happening. What’s the point of discussing it, really?[/quote]
well dude is an enigma in my mind. how can he live with himself? i can’t imagine the pressure.
wackos like floyd are easy, with simple motives.
lance is something else. it bugs me to think about it.[/quote]
Lance is special, definitely. He’s relentless about everything he does including the creation of the “image”. I just get tired of people forecasting his imminent demise. Personally, I believe that even if someone eventually comes up with some hard evidence against him that his PR machine will generate enough doubt that he just keeps on truckin’.
[quote=halbritt]That was an awesome finish. Kinda long for Cav. Haussler is sitting up because he’d just led out Goss.
People keep sayin’ this and it keeps not happening. What’s the point of discussing it, really?[/quote]
well dude is an enigma in my mind. how can he live with himself? i can’t imagine the pressure.
wackos like floyd are easy, with simple motives.
lance is something else. it bugs me to think about it.[/quote]
Lance is special, definitely. He’s relentless about everything he does including the creation of the “image”. I just get tired of people forecasting his imminent demise. Personally, I believe that even if someone eventually comes up with some hard evidence against him that his PR machine will generate enough doubt that he just keeps on truckin’.[/quote]
agreed. it’s the best/worst kept secret that Lance cheated with the rest of them. Does not matter one way or the other. Still the best of his era and nobody really cares besides the teammates he burned out.
“Landis’ reaction was one of bluff and mocking contempt. He set up a fake legal firm and began to email the UCI’s legal team. He even set up a website for his fictitious legal firm, Greymanrod.com (the website has since been removed), creating a lawyer to represent him. One of the legal team’s areas of expertise was in Vegetable Rights Abuse Advocacy.”
The photo finish is pretty rad, but they’ve been doing it for a while. The old school way used a camera with a slit aperture and a moving film strip. It’s not really a photo, rather, it’s a graph of what the plane of the finish line looked like over time. That’s why you get the weird effects like the curved spokes, and why the ground looks the exact same along the length of the photo.
I read a cool article a few years back, but can’t find it online. Here’s the info:
A Wrinkle in Time: The distorted precision of photo-finish photography
Kris Belden-Adams
Cabinet Magazine
An interesting side effect is that the direction the racers are facing doesn’t depend on the direction they are moving, but rather the direction the film is moving.
