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Franco Ballerini! No way!
Former Paris-Roubaix winner passes away in Italy at the age of 45
Italian national cycling coach and former Paris-Roubaix winner Franco Ballerini died on Sunday morning after being involved in a crash during a rally car event in Tuscany, Italy.
According to La Gazzetta Dello Sport, Ballerini, 45, was competing in the rally within the municipality of Larciano as a navigator for pilot Alessandro Ciardi when their vehicle left the road and crashed.
Both were rushed to nearby Pistoia Hospital where despite the efforts of doctors Ballerini passed away soon afterwards.
Ballerini rode as a professional between 1986 and 2001. He won Paris-Roubaix twice, in 1995 and 1998. The cobbled Classic was also his last race as a professional when he retired in 2001.
He quickly became the Italian national professional men's road coach and was in charge of the team that won the rainbow jersey with Mario Cipollini in 2002, Paolo Bettini in 2006 and 2007, and most recently with Alessandro Ballan in Varese in 2008.
Paolo Bettini also won a gold medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics under Ballerini's management.
Cyclingnews spoke to Pat McQuaid as the UCI President was about to board a plane for Vancouver, Canada. He hadn’t heard the news, and was stunned to hear of Ballerini’s passing.
“What can you say - it is a tragedy for Italian and world cycling,” he stated. “He was a very good figure in the Italian team over several years now, creating an importance within the Italian cycling as regards to the title of World professional Champion.
“[The World Championships] has been his biggest day every year with the Italian team. He had a very successful tenure as coach, and he was also a great cyclist too. It is a tragedy that he goes like this.”
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Bloody hell. RIP.
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Cracking actor and star of some excellent films
Ian Carmichael RIP
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Think this one slipped through the net in Dec 2009. He might have been old-school in an increasingly commercial world, but Walt's nephew fought the good fight for creativity and imagination in the face of Hollywood blowhards like Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg.
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Walter Frederick Morrison - inventor of the frisbee!
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article7028027.ece
Doug Fieger: The man who sang My SharonaOddly The Times has tomorrow's date on the article, so perhaps he's still alive and they mean to bump him off tonight.
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Yeah, I got that message through earlier today... My Sharona will be going on at the next Rollers I DJ at... RIP...
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At high school, he joined a group called Sky formed by Jimmy Miller, who would go on to produce several Rolling Stones albums.
As a young man he moved to Los Angeles and was in the firmament of the city’s proto-punk scene. He became well known in the Sunset Strip rock clubs with the Sunset Bombers.
He formed the Knack in 1978 and the band played its first gig at the famed Whisky a Go Go nightclub in Los Angeles in June 1978. The Knack followed up My Sharona with Good Girls Don’t, which reached No 11 in the US. Their debut album Get the Knack sold three million copies in the US alone.
Later singles, She’s So Selfish and Frustrated, and a second album, But the Little Girls Understand, were less successful. After two years of triumph the band suffered a reaction from critics who pointed out that it was distasteful for four men in their late twenties to produce songs that fantasied about schoolgirls. http://www.lfgss.com/thread37839.html
The Knack soon split up but did not quite disappear. They sued the rap band Run-DMC, claiming that its single* It’s Tricky* (1986) sampled My Sharona without permission. In 1994 the band’s signature song appeared on the soundtrack of the cult film Reality Bites and was rereleased as a single. In 2005 it was even cited by President Bush as one of the tracks on his iPod. The Knack even re-formed for the occasional tour until 2005. "But did they actually write anything else?
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RIP old money....this day in 1971....death of £.S.D where 12d=1 shilling and 20 shillings=£1....a land of half-crowns [12.5p in modern money] or florin or 2 bob [10p]...the tanner...or 2.5p and the many sided 3d bit [not a lot]....and there was a 10 bob note [bob=shilling]....which was brown in colour and when you had one of them you were in the money.....going to the flicks [or cinema] was 1/9d....1 and 9d [ about 8p].....d=denari and dates from Roman times
39 years ago.....i was 15!......thought i would this moment with you.
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article7028027.ece
Doug Fieger: The man who sang My SharonaOddly The Times has tomorrow's date on the article, so perhaps he's still alive and they mean to bump him off tonight.
Like that song. If you're going to be a one-hit wonder, you might as well have a pretty decent one hit. I prefer that to bands who produce a lot of mediocre cack for ages.
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RIP old money....this day in 1971....death of £.S.D where 12d=1 shilling and 20 shillings=£1....a land of half-crowns [12.5p in modern money] or florin or 2 bob [10p]...the tanner...or 2.5p and the many sided 3d bit [not a lot]....and there was a 10 bob note [bob=shilling]....which was brown in colour and when you had one of them you were in the money.....going to the flicks [or cinema] was 1/9d....1 and 9d [ about 8p].....d=denari and dates from Roman times
39 years ago.....i was 15!......thought i would this moment with you.
Thanks for the memories ... :)
I won a Ten shilling note when I was 15.
It was a competion on an Ice Cream wrapper
It was to create a cartoon picture that had two meanings - mine wa -
Thanks for the memories ... :)
I won a Ten shilling note when I was 15.
It was a competion on an Ice Cream wrapper
It was to create a cartoon picture that had two meanings - mine waAre you that old you've just lost the plot halfway through typing ?
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No way! I used to rehearse at The Stables - Johnny and Cleos place. She put a complaint in about us to the staff....second best grand piano in the UK in that auditorium and it was covered in empty Stella cans by the time we were finished!