The Coffee Ride: Hells bells, Rohan Dennis on track for wedding
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WEDDING BELLS
WHILE Rohan Dennis is focused on getting through this week’s Tour Down Under, his mind is also on a much bigger commitment he’s about to make next month.
Dennis is set to marry fiancee and former Olympic cyclist Melissa Hoskins in the Margaret River in February.
The pair live in Andorra but are marrying in Hoskins’ home state of WA with family and friends.
Word has it Dennis has organised the suits for his groomsmen and shoes from RM Williams, as well as insisting the wedding be held at a winery.
But he pushed it a bit far when Hoskins gave him the chance to help choose a song for the bridal waltz and he wanted AC/DC’s Highway to Hell.
Not surprisingly, that was the last he had to do with the planning.
SHUT UP LEGS
GREAT to see big Jens Voigt in Adelaide for another Tour Down Under.
The retired star is an ambassador of the race but his preparation was somewhat compromised this year by his attempt to run seven marathons in seven days for charity earlier this month.
Big Jensy got through the first four marathons before being cut down on January 7 with a bacterial infection of his leg which if he continued and worsened, could very well have changed his catch-cry from ‘shut up legs’ to ‘cut off legs’.
But in true Jens style he has pushed through the pain barrier to be up and on his feet at the TDU where he continues to be a major drawcard with fans.
After my marathon runs and that stupid bacteria infection in my left leg i am still on antibiotics but things are improving really good now. I am ready!
— Jens Voigt (@thejensie) January 12, 2018
THIS AIN’T HOT
JAPANESE rider Fumiyuki Beppu admitted he’s feeling the heat at this week’s race but he’s experienced worse.
The Trek-Segafredo rider rode at the 2008 Beijing Olympics where he said the humidity, combined with pollution, was his toughest day on a bike.
He also recalls racing in 43C temperatures at the Tour of California.
We might ask him again on Friday night after back-to-back 41C days and see if he wants to reconsider.
Which is better? 🤔
— Trek-Segafredo (@TrekSegafredo) January 18, 2018
Cool butt or cool head?#TDU pic.twitter.com/j8rL6tGvQw
STARRY EYED
ADELAIDE Olympic soccer player Fausto Erba was ordered by his Slovakian mother to do ‘whatever you can’ to meet her idol Peter Sagan in Adelaide this week.
The big moment happened in Glenelg on Wednesday when Sagan’s manager Giovanni Lombardi introduced the two before Stage 3. We hope Erba’s mother — who lives in Italy — was sent a photo.
Originally published as The Coffee Ride: Hells bells, Rohan Dennis on track for wedding