Man Wins Race, Gets Girl
by Chris Fontecchio on Apr 10, 2011 12:51 PM EDT
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Johan Van Summeren and girlfriend Jasmin Vangrieken, to whom he proposed after crossing the finish line in today's triumphant Paris-Roubaix. The Google gnomes are a tad cryptic, but I think she said yes.
Photo by Bryn Lennon, Getty Images Sport
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that is a horrid pic of van summer/ale
"Wizard's first rule. People are stupid. They will believe anything they want to be true or fear to be true." -- Terry Goodkind
Just thinking what a glorious pic it is!
by Sarah Connolly on Apr 10, 2011 1:22 PM EDT up reply actions
Good for him!
Looks as if he has two resons to celebrate. But are you sure that’s not Billy Idol in the picture?
It's a nice day
for a white wedding
Vlaanderens Mooiste
by Koppenberg on Apr 10, 2011 1:18 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
How many points do I get for "proposal accepted"?
I also love it because 11 years ago (Saturday April 8, 2000) was the day I proposed to my future wife.
Hadn’t won a bike race though.
Nice job Chris, now that's a photo keeper.
"It's a lovely thing, feeling that momentum. If you're lucky, it's also about grace." Tim Winton
*northern* Belgium
If cobble delusions are wrong, who wants to be right? -JFS PGH
by Chris Fontecchio on Apr 10, 2011 2:32 PM EDT up reply actions
If you wanna celebrate with them
She’s buying a keg in Cafe Pauline, Driehoekstraat, Lommel. I could be there in just over half an hour …
I like tinkering with the boys.
- majope
Final episode of De Ronde right now!
No Euskies have crashed … yet
I like tinkering with the boys.
- majope
No one crashed in the final episode!
Maybe because no way they were riding the finale of the race, but I’ll not mention that cause it’s your birthday. Also, they a had a shot of shirtless water splashing Fab.
I like tinkering with the boys.
- majope
Not sure I want to know more about these
Belgo-Dutch in-jokes.
Badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger...
by TheFigurehead on Apr 11, 2011 3:50 PM EDT up reply actions
Dear god
How do I unsee that? Claw out my eyes? Bang my head at a certain angle? Any suggestions appreciated.
If cobble delusions are wrong, who wants to be right? -JFS PGH
by Chris Fontecchio on Apr 11, 2011 5:21 PM EDT up reply actions
Ah
good thinking. And hey, I have a whole Chimay Blu waiting too.
If cobble delusions are wrong, who wants to be right? -JFS PGH
by Chris Fontecchio on Apr 11, 2011 6:05 PM EDT up reply actions
Do pass on our congratulations!
… and get a close-up photo of any new jewellery that she may be wearing…
Aw, aw, aaaaaaaaaaw
How Jasmine lived through the finale. One big, giant aw, from “Come on, stupid Tjallingi”, over “Shit, I didn’t tape this race!” to “I’m happy I’m not Lore Boonen, she must get this nervous every week!”. And yes, she said yes :)
I like tinkering with the boys.
- majope
And she runs fast
Badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger...
by TheFigurehead on Apr 10, 2011 3:09 PM EDT up reply actions
She's quite tall, too.
Their children could be hard to buy clothes for.
I yearn for the cobbles--Edvald Boasson Hagen
The likelihood that GHH knows the Yankees...
…from any other baseball team on Earth are so. incredibly. limited…
yup...just joking. Saw the hat and thought, WTF!
Be like Jeter walking around with a Garmin-Cervelo hat on…world’s collide.
by JustJoshinYa on Apr 10, 2011 7:24 PM EDT up reply actions
maybe the Yankees are universally known unlike the Red Sox?
(From a Mets Fan)
Sminer: I blame KARMA for everything.
Jens: I've heard it's a bitch
Water Girl: I heard it ran over your dogma
I don't know if they are known as a baseball team
or if the hat is a fashion item made popular by American pop culture that has been exported. You see a lot of people in Europe wearing the hat that don’t know what it signifies. They just know they saw it in a movie or that Jay-Z wears it.
Yeah, it seems like something people bring back from NYC
as something very “New York” – rather than meaning allegiance to a team
(I know friends have them for that reason)
by Sarah Connolly on Apr 11, 2011 2:33 AM EDT up reply actions
He's vegan, you know
(which i am definitely not, but I respect his choice, even more so while he is racing in the ProTour.)
I'm thinking his lifechoices didn't matter much to her at that point :-)
He could have been the worlds greatest puppy lifesaver and she still would have hoped for him to bonk or ride in a ditch.
But you see, one must not be mean to Dutchies...
…under any circumstances.
She forgot the rule ;)
It's dog eat dog in the Belgian anarchy
And JVS was about to win the girl and half the kingdom.
Badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger...
by TheFigurehead on Apr 10, 2011 4:57 PM EDT up reply actions
Hey, we kicked their asses out
about 180 years ago. Ed can’t hurt me no more!
(Ed, can I still come watch the world champs next year? please?)
I like tinkering with the boys.
- majope
Didn't want to link one to the other
Just wanted to mention that he is vegan. Which is very rare for a pro cyclist.
Just like
Robert Millar. And that’s about where the similarities end…
If cobble delusions are wrong, who wants to be right? -JFS PGH
by Chris Fontecchio on Apr 10, 2011 6:36 PM EDT up reply actions
Aw! I love the cameraguy telling her where to go
(for optimum shots, haha!)
She’s very cute there, aw! Happiness!
by Sarah Connolly on Apr 10, 2011 3:29 PM EDT up reply actions
I think that is what's played at the end of every romance movie
or something damn like it
Sminer: I blame KARMA for everything.
Jens: I've heard it's a bitch
Water Girl: I heard it ran over your dogma
Made me tear up a little
Do my tears surprise you, Jens?
Jens! Voigt puts the 'laughter' in 'manslaughter'
Speaking of pics--don't you wish you could go back to this day
and say: Just wait.
I yearn for the cobbles--Edvald Boasson Hagen
What I don't quite get
is who all must have been in on it—they started showing her picture inset in the action a LONG time before it was obvious that he was going to take it. And they flashed back to her several times. Think someone was tipped off about the proposal, or conditional proposal, or whatever the plan was?
"luckily for me i was born with an extremely high hemassholecrit level. no pills needed." -ant1
I thought they might have been asking any of the partners who were hanging around, just on the off-chance
You know, like the shots of Freire’s wife & kids at Pais Vasco – can imagine them nipping up & down, asking anyone there…. until it became obvious Summie would be a story
by Sarah Connolly on Apr 10, 2011 5:44 PM EDT up reply actions
ah hell, just put freire's kids together with av's twins. extremely huge cuteness factor there.
"Wizard's first rule. People are stupid. They will believe anything they want to be true or fear to be true." -- Terry Goodkind
She's good looking and she's standing with the press and willing to be photographed
and her boyfriend was in the break. That is probably as far as the thinking went.
Jens! Voigt puts the 'laughter' in 'manslaughter'
Gerard Vroomen tweeted a superb Summie quote
Vansummeren last 5k on a flat: “I know how to ride on a flat because sometimes I forget to bring a tire on training rides”
He has Oscarcito tendencies sometimes
I remember a Tour interview where he’s going on and on about the time bonuses at the finish, only for the interviewer to interrupt him saying: “ehrm, there are no time bonuses at the finish. There haven’t been for years!”.
Though to be fair, they got him a tad drunk on French wine for that interview.
I like tinkering with the boys.
- majope
Best quote found so far -
"You know some guys offer a ring in marriage. Me, I give a rock." – Van Summeren
What would Deming do? (+8:00 GMT)
I've decided I want a framed copy of that photo
I can’t stop coming back to look at it. Kills me.
"It's a lovely thing, feeling that momentum. If you're lucky, it's also about grace." Tim Winton
Largest version I found
I'm going to break out my photo printer
I’ll let you know how it turns out, thanks Ted.
"It's a lovely thing, feeling that momentum. If you're lucky, it's also about grace." Tim Winton
Same
Sminer: I blame KARMA for everything.
Jens: I've heard it's a bitch
Water Girl: I heard it ran over your dogma
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