"Everything that was old is new again"..category..

[pdmtong]

“I don’t want this to be a circus,” he said.

Right.....

[Dino Suegiù]

Originally Posted by saab2000

I hope a team takes him and I hope he rides and finishes.

Same.

At least that way he would also ride against all the negativity and beat it. I would wish him the best. Most people cannot even hope for such a 20th-year-anniversary (cycling one) at age 50+, but he really could possibly do this (finish the real race). Chapeau to him if he does try it.

[FlashUNC]

It's Andrea Tafi. Of course he wants to make it a circus.

Just go ride the Fondo with the rest of the punters.

[OperaLover]

Did I read somewhere thatLandis was going to try a comeback?

[Fivethumbs]

Where's Rock Racing when you need them? I thought they were "Here to stay."

A few years ago Alexi Grewal tried a comeback at age 50. That did not go so well. But I don't know if he was riding 18,000 km per year.

[marciero]

Originally Posted by FastforaSlowGuy

Cue the doping jokes/jabs in 3...2...1...

52... is that his age or his... never mind too easy

[marciero]

Despite my above comment there does exist some nostalgia or fondness or something from the glory days of Mapei-which coincided with my introduction into the sport-that has survived all the doping cynicism. So I have to smile. Agree he should totally ride a C-40.

[GonaSovereign]

The Mapei team all tested at the Mapei sports center. Tafi knows (or can find out) how many watts per kg he was putting out then, and whether he can do 80% of that now.

[Dekonick]

50 is the new 30

[Pearsom]

"Let me dream. Let me taste this impossible mission.” I like it. It's romantic. We all should have something big we are chasing to keep us going.

[pbarry]

Paging Chris Horner..

[everbeek]

Originally Posted by GonaSovereign

The Mapei team all tested at the Mapei sports center. Tafi knows (or can find out) how many watts per kg he was putting out then, and whether he can do 80% of that now.

Perhaps Cycle Sport or Pro Cycling from 20ish years ago - 465 watts at threshold. The journalist wrote that watching him ride back and forth in the Arenberg Forest preceding the race was "like me riding up and down my driveway".