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Saturday, October 2, 2010

Jure Robic, Endurance Bicyclist, Dies at 45

Jure Robic, a long-distance bicyclist who won the grueling Race Across America five times and whose seemingly endless, sleep-eschewing stamina tested the limits of human endurance, died during a training ride on Friday when he collided with a car on a mountain road in Plavski Rovt, Slovenia, near his home in Jesenice. He was 45...


...chapeau Estragon...


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2 comments:

  1. "It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over."
    Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950)

    "Life is just one damned thing after another."
    Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)

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