French pancakes

I rode through the Fairgrounds again today. Hey, French girl, what do you think of this?Actually, I already asked her. She said some of the le Menu items are distinctly not very French but that the banana and chocolate seems pretty Frenchy. And they also have Nutella. The stand is located kitty corner from the DNR building, just around the corner from the big yellow slide.

Earlier I rode past Lake Owasso. There was a drowning there yesterday at about 2pm. We were there at around 11am and based on the newspaper story and what I saw at the lake today I am certain that the group of four young people we saw getting their boat ready for a day of water recreation are the group from which one person drowned. The body has not been recovered yet. If the picture taken yesterday had been taken this afternoon you would see a sheriff's boat cruising up and down that shoreline with two deputies peering into the shallow water. Out in the deeper water there are several buoys marking a search area and a couple of diver buoys indicating divers in the water. The divers' main boat would be just off the photo to the right. The area down the shoreline to the left was covered with deputies and cameras. A yellow tape stretched from tree to tree designates the entire shore as a restricted police area.

The young people were getting ready to ride on "Big Mable", an inflatable raft. I looked it up on the internet. There are several places on Big Mable where you can hitch the tow rope. At least one of them would result in Big Mable more or less up on its tail in a pretty agressive mode. Hitting a wake after making a sharp turn at speed in that mode would almost certainly overturn the raft. I think that is what happened. The raft overturned, the young man hit the water hard, the force of impact knocked him unconscious, he drowned before regaining his senses.

VeloNews today has an article about a German guy who claims that a careful analysis of documents made public by the Operacion Puerto investigation of blood doping in Spain reveals information detailing the doping program followed by Alberto Contador. Velonews also reports that 16th place finisher Iban Mayo has tested positive for EPO. He also was reported to have tested positive at the Giro, for testoserone, but was cleared of wrongdoing at that time by the UCI. Is there any solution?

I highly recommend the TdF posting at FatCyclist. He has a doping analysis written by a medical doctor which is quite interesting and which offers a reasonable solution.

And finally, a game which no site seemed to know in advance when it was to be played actually occurred on Monday. The game story on the FC Nantes website says the game was shifted by the league. I guess this makes sense for TV purposes. Even France has Monday Night Football.

Nantes 5, Reims 0. Nicolas Goussé, a striker in his first year with the club, scored three goals, the first at 9 minutes, then two quickly at 50 and 56 minutes early in the second half. Mamadou Bagayoko, a native of Mali and a former player for Nantes, returned to the Canaries after last year playing in Qatar. He scored the other two for Nantes. A capacity crowd of more than 27,000 fans looked on.

Allez Nantes.