Beloki in Chicago. Is it true?

I starting to think KK is the best endurance man in the world. What do you think Joseba? You are top 10 for sure.

If it's true, will mr. beloki email me at

weldonjohnson@letsrun.com

to confirm his identity.

I doubted it but a spanish guy was 3rd this year at rotterdam, so the guy must have done some research.

If it really is Beloki, then I'm glad to have him on this board. It's interesting to hear what other elite athletes think about running (even if it isn't always positive).

I was spectating at Chicago too and made it to many parts of the course. Now I wish I would have been looking a little closer at some of the cyclists following the race.

Now if only Tergat would go to a cycling web site and start making fun of cyclists, that would be interesting.

I kinda doubt it is the true Beloki. First, because

it seems unlikely any self respecting Basque would

refer to a Moroccan as a "brother", and second

because the real Mr. Beloki finished 112th in the

world cycling championship's men's elite road race

that very same day in Zolder, Belgium.

On a non-related cycling-running note, Martin Fiz

has challenged Jose Luis Rubiera to a race up the

steepest part of the Angliru (an insanely steep

climb in Spain) The latter has accepted. I presume

the former will be without the benefit of a bicycle.

Elite men's RR: Why Freire won

Results:

1. FREIRE GOMEZ,Oscar (Sp), 6:07:21

2. BETTINI,Paolo (I)

3. HAUPTMAN,Andrej (Slo)

4. DEKKER,Erik (Nl)

5. ZABEL,Erik (G)

6. WADECKI,Piotr (Pol)

7. FIGUERAS,Giuliano (I)

8. MIKHAILOV,Guennadi (Rus)

9. KONECNY,Tomas (Cz)

10. ZBERG,Beat (Swi)

11. BARTOLI,Michele (I)

12. LANFRANCHI,Paolo (I)

13. ULLRICH,Jan (G)

14. ZAKIROV,Faat (Rus)

15. WOJTAS,Arkadiusz (Pol)

16. PIATEK,Zbigniew (Pol)

17. BRUYLANDTS,Dave (B)

18. AXELSSON,Niklas (Swe)

19. BOTCHAROV,Alexandre (Rus)

20. AEBERSOLD,Niki (Swi)

21. BONDARENKO,Denis (Rus)

22. AERTS,Mario (B)

23. VICIOSO ARCOS,Angel (Sp)

24. SOUSA BARBOSA,Rui Miguel (Por)

25. MCRAE,Chann (USA)

26. EVANS,Cadel (Aus)

27. VALJAVEC,Tadej (Slo)

28. LEIPHEIMER,Levy (USA)

29. BOTERO ECHEVERRY,Santiago (Col)

30. TCHMIL,Andrei (B)

31. VIRENQUE,Richard (F)

32. REBELLIN,Davide (I)

33. ROBIN,Jean-Cyril (F)

34. FARESIN,Gianni (I)

35. MUSEEUW,Johan (B)

36. RASMUSSEN,Michael (Dk)

37. AMORIM VALADA,Gon?alo Jos? (Por)

38. SIMONI,Gilberto (I)

39. HEULOT,St?phane (F)

40. CASAGRANDE,Francesco (I)

41. BASSO,Ivan (I)

42. CASERO MORENO,Angel Luis (Sp)

43. BOOGERD,Michael (Nl)

44. NARDELLO,Daniele (I)

45. BELOKI DORRONSORO,Joseba (Sp), all . st.

46. BROCHARD,Laurent (F), at 0:42

47. MATTAN,Nico (B)

48. DUMA,Vladimir (Ukr)

49. VERHEYEN,Geert (B)

50. GIANETTI,Mauro (Swi)

51. MOOS,Alexandre (Swi)

52. LUTTENBERGER,Peter (A), all s. t.

53. BELTRAN MARTINEZ,Manuel (Sp), at 1:00

54. SEVILLA RIBERA,Oscar (Sp)

55. LOTZ,Marc (Nl)

56. RUBIERA VIGIL,Jos? Luis (Sp)

57. BLANCO GIL,Santiago (Sp)

58. MAZZOLENI,Eddy (I)

59. SCIANDRI,Maximilian (GB), all s. t.

60. STANGELJ,Gorazd (Slo), at 8:07

61. LEAPER,Tom (Aus), at10:42

62. PEREZ ARANGO,Marlon Alirio (Col)

63. LAVARINHAS,Rui (Por)

64. ALVES,Nuno (Por)

65. COX,Ryan (SA)

66. ZUMSTEG,Lukas (Swi)

67. SCHNIDER,Daniel (Swi)

68. BESSY,Fr?d?ric (F)

69. BRARD,Florent (F)

70. BOURQUENOUD,Pierre (Swi)

71. BRANDT,Christophe (B)

72. PUGACI,Igor (Mda)

73. LELEKIN,Serguei (Rus)

74. RUMSAS,Raimondas (Ltu)

75. SONNE,Morten (Dk)

76. BARANOWSKI,Dariusz (Pol)

77. AUS,Lauri (Est)

78. BARRY,Michael (Can)

79. CHMIELEWSKI,Piotr (Pol)

80. PRZYDZIAL,Piotr (Pol)

81. WEGELIUS,Charles (GB)

82. HRUSKA,Jan (Cz)

83. KROON,Karsten (Nl)

84. FOFONOV,Dmitri (Kz)

85. KESSLER,Matthias (G)

86. PETROV,Evgeni (Rus)

87. TURPIN,Ludovic (F)

88. POSPYEYEV,Kyrylo (Ukr)

89. DI LUCA,Danilo (I) , all s. t.

90. DEN BAKKER,Maarten (Nl), at 14:05

91. SKELDE,Michael (Dk)

92. ELMIGER,Martin (Swi)

93. BODROGI,Laszlo (H)

94. PRONK,Matth? (Nl), all s. t.

Did not finish

VAINSTEINS,Romans (Lat)

BELOHVOSCIKS,Raivis (Lat)

REISS,Andris (Lat)

SPRUCH,Zbigniew (Pol)

SZMYD,Sylvester (Pol)

CUESTA,I¤igo (Sp)

DIAZ JUSTO,Rafael (Sp)

JIMENEZ SANCHEZ,Eliado oESP (Sp)

OSA EIZAGUIRRE,Aitor (Sp)

ALDAG,Rolf (G)

HONDO,Danilo (G)

HUNDERTMARK,Kai (G)

JAKSCHE,J"rg (G)

KLIER,Andreas (G)

NIERMANN,Grischa (G)

SCHRECK,Stephan (G)

VOIGT,Jens (G)

WERNER,Christian (G)

HEULE,Christian (Swi)

PUTTINI,Felice (Swi)

STRAUSS,Marcel (Swi)

ZAMPIERI,Steve (Swi)

HAYMAN,Mathew (Aus)

JONKER,Patrick (Aus)

O'NEILL,Nathan (Aus)

ROGERS,Michael (Aus)

CRUZ,Antonio (USA)

KLUCK,Damon (USA)

PELUSI,Seth (USA)

BOVEN,Jan (Nl)

DE GROOT,Bram (Nl)

DE JONGH,Steven (Nl)

HIEMSTRA,Bert (Nl)

VENEBERG,Thorwald (Nl)

VOSKAMP,Bart (Nl)

BAGUET,Serge (B)

MERCKX,Axel (B)

PEERS,Chris (B)

VAN PETEGEM,Peter (B)

WAUTERS,Marc (B)

DERGANC,Martin (Slo)

LJUNGQVIST,Marcus (Swe)

LOVATT,Mark (GB)

MILLAR,David (GB)

BOUYER,Franck (F)

CHAVANEL,Sylvain (F)

GOUBERT,St?phane (F)

HALGAND,Patrice (F)

TESSIER,Jean-Michel (F)

BLAUDZUN,Michael (Dk)

HOJ,Frank (Dk)

NIELSEN,Bjarke (Dk)

PETERSEN,Jorgen Bo (Dk)

SORENSEN,Rolf (Dk)

MANDOJA,Innar (Est)

TRUMPAUSKAS,Arturas (Ltu)

WHITE,Nicholas (SA)

DIMITROV,Dimitar (Bul)

HEGREBERG,Morten (N)

BAIGUDINOV,Kairat (Kz)

KASHECHKIN,Andrey (Kz)

KUZNETSOV,Konstantin (Kz)

MIZOUROV,Andrey (Kz)

SABALIN,Alexandru (Mda)

PEREZ CUAPIO,Julio Alberto (Mex)

SZEKERES,Csaba (Hun)

MORSCHER,Harald (A)

TRAMPUSCH,Gerhard (A)

BORISOV,Vladislav (Rus)

GAYNITDINOV,Dmitri (Rus)

IVANOV,Serguei (Rus)

KONYSHEV,Dmitri (Rus)

WONG,Kam-Po (HK)

KLIEMIENKO,Aleksander (Ukr)

WALTERS,Mark (Can)

MITCHELL,Glen (NZ)

VESTY,Brendon (NZ).

No, that's last year's results.

Cipollini won this year.

Why does he have to capitalize his entire name like that?

I suspect there are twin Beloki's, Joseba and Roseba -- colloqually known as JoBe and RoBe -- who sneak around impersonating each other in cases like this. At least according to a posting by "JavierEnFilipines" on a message board at the letsride.com website.