JENS!

by rocketpress on Jul 8, 2008 8:33 AM EDT Comment 17 comments

"I am being saved for something special," smiled Voigt. "I am like a tightly coiled spring and I'm just waiting for Bjarne to pull the trigger and release me and then - bam, I will explode into the race."

From cyclingnews.com

Somebody get that man some more coffee.

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he seems to go for first place right now

by semprenaroda on Jul 8, 2008 9:38 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Jens!

Why doesn’t someone just follow him all day with a camera? He needs his own at-home show when he retires, like the Osbournes.

"If writing too much about the Classics is wrong, I don't want to be right."

by Chris... on Jul 8, 2008 1:25 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Brilliant!

I wonder what his family is like. I’ll bet he has a crazy brother.

by rocketpress on Jul 8, 2008 1:50 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

One more thought

He might take yellow this week. Why not? Super Besse would be a good place for him to attack.

"If writing too much about the Classics is wrong, I don't want to be right."

by Chris... on Jul 8, 2008 3:11 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'll bet

that he IS the crazy brother!

by giant rider on Jul 9, 2008 1:04 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Still pathetically wondering

if anyone knows what his 5th child was. The one born with some trouble last November. Anyone? Anyone?

by NE Observer on Jul 8, 2008 4:15 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Vanity Fair

Has the answer:

...die beiden Söhne Marc und Julian, die Töchter Kim-Helena, Adriana und Maja…

Bork, bork, bork!

by TheFigurehead on Jul 8, 2008 4:41 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Well, at last.

Thank YOU, Figurehead.

(Is there a German ‘Vanity Fair??)

by NE Observer on Jul 8, 2008 7:05 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Come on... Lipsum as filler copy?

Where’s the passionate love of hotdogs?

When Leipheimer is done mating with his Time Trialing bike... does he bite its head off and eat it?

by crashdan on Jul 8, 2008 5:47 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Chris has become a vegetarian

and will not tolerate such talk.

by Jimbo... on Jul 8, 2008 5:52 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

It seemed appropriate for JENS!

Lorem Ipsum is from a classical piece of literature by Cicero called “The Extremes of Good and Evil” and the passage used is about pain and suffering. The opening roughly translates to “There is no one who loves pain itself, who seeks after it and wants to have it, simply because it is pain…”

Besides, I don’t have much to say about hotdogs.

by rocketpress on Jul 8, 2008 6:15 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Jens! quote from VS today...

regarding how to motivate himself for the TT… “the mind has to rule the body and tell the body ‘shut up and do what I tell you to do’ and it works every now and then… and then sometimes you just try to bluff and sometimes that works as well…”

by Jimbo... on Jul 8, 2008 5:56 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Nice

None of this would be half as funny if you couldn’t mimick his voice in your head. God bless “Overcoming.”

"If writing too much about the Classics is wrong, I don't want to be right."

by Chris... on Jul 8, 2008 5:57 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I love his accent!

My next door neighbor has a similar one, and I always think of Jens! when talking to him.

by Veloki on Jul 9, 2008 1:06 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Jens! still hungry

says he’s ready to sign with Bjarne for an additional year. He has a contract until end of next year but would like to renew until 2010.

by Jens on Jul 9, 2008 7:51 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I wish he would talk to Zabel

and convince him to sign there too until 2010. The peleton needs both guys riding for as long as humanly possible.

What is it about former East German cyclists, documentaries, and humor? Jens is well documented in Overcoming, but Rolf and Erik in Hell on Wheels both come off funny as hell too. I love the part in Hollentour after Rolf takes the Maillot Pois and laments that each spot cost him a year off his life. And then Ete reminds him that ”...last year when you broke your rib, I didn’t give a shit.” delivered in that totally deadpan tone he can adopt. Classic.

"I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum."

by Drew... on Jul 9, 2008 8:51 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

That was classic

they seemed to have a real good camraderie. Zabel talking on the cell phone in the same scene is funny too calling Rolf an old “Anklamper” (Wheelsucker).

Back to topic, would love to see Jens going for it today, but fell its more likely that Frank goes to make up some time. Maybe Jens goes first like in Switzerland and Frank goes over the top if/when he is fading. However there is a strong possibility that there are a lot of guys who want to attack today and the will cancel each other out, like they do on the Poggio.

by Capisce on Jul 10, 2008 4:59 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs