{"id":341,"date":"2007-04-21T01:07:09","date_gmt":"2007-04-21T05:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/04\/21\/tdg-brasstown-bald\/"},"modified":"2007-04-21T01:07:09","modified_gmt":"2007-04-21T05:07:09","slug":"tdg-brasstown-bald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/04\/21\/tdg-brasstown-bald\/","title":{"rendered":"TdG: Brasstown Bald"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So you&#8217;ve already read the comprehensive <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/road\/2007\/apr07\/georgia07\/?id=results\/georgia075\">Cycling News report<\/a> on what happened at stage five of the Tour de Georgia.  Anything new I can tell you?  Well, here&#8217;s what I hope you want to know:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/219\/466761436_6aa9415f6f_m.jpg\" class=\"imagefloatleft\" alt=\"Levi Leipheimer Wins Stage Five\" \/><br \/>\nWas Tom Danielson pissed?  Well, at the press conference, in which Levi Leipheimer repeatedly made reference to &#8220;Tom lending me Brasstown Bald this year,&#8221; Tom was very gracious.  And he smiled.  Perhaps a tinge too much.  It&#8217;s the first time I&#8217;ve seen either man in person, so take it for what it&#8217;s worth, but Tom gave off the slightest hint of the vibe of a man who&#8217;s just been had, and knows it.<\/p>\n<p>Were the riders a complete mess as they crossed the line at the top of Brasstown Bald?  Absolutely.  Even Levi, taking the stage, didn&#8217;t smile.  Some faces were stony masks, but their first faltering steps off the bike gave clue to just how much the day took out of them.  Other riders had a hard time even taking a bottle.  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/206\/466773316_2b87400575_m.jpg\" class=\"imagefloatright\" alt=\"All that's left is the hurt\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Was it any easier to follow the race in person than online?  Actually, no.  In fact, I&#8217;m almost certain that most of you knew more about what was going on for the first 90% of the race than I did.    Between the same video\/cell problems that&#8217;ve been plaguing the tracker, having no cell coverage, and (ahem) leaving my laptop at the bottom of the mountain, I was only able to gather bits and pieces of updates from team radios (which, in my limited experience, seem to be regularly contradicting each other).<\/p>\n<p>See anything cool?  Well, of course.  I saw the finish of Brasstown Bald.  But cool as in amusing?  Yeah &#8211; Levi Leipheimer&#8217;s mom came over to Tyler Hamilton to say hi and give him a hug.  I&#8217;m sure Tyler will one day enjoy telling Levi to &#8220;Say hi to your mom&#8221; at some opportune moment.<\/p>\n<p>(Between making sure I get details right, formatting, etc., it&#8217;s getting later than I&#8217;d like.  More tomorrow.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So you&#8217;ve already read the comprehensive Cycling News report on what happened at stage five of the Tour de Georgia. Anything new I can tell you? Well, here&#8217;s what I hope you want to know: Was Tom Danielson pissed? Well, at the press conference, in which Levi Leipheimer repeatedly made reference to &#8220;Tom lending me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}