Also newly dead is the former women's road racing world champion and frequent olympian, Zinauda Stagurskaya. She was hit by a truck riding on a highway in her native Belarus, training for the national road championships slated to take place later this week. I think it is simultaneously ironic and fitting that a road racing world champion dies on their bike, though the fact that it was due to the carelessnes of a motorist and not the result of an epic battle between professional cyclists pushin' it to the limit.
Of course nothing is going to change with traffic-law enforcement because bicycles are viewed as toys by the government, not as viable alternatives to gas-powered transportation. You could rest assured that if some fat-ass was horsin' around in a pool and accidentally drowned Michael Phelps, the ratio of fat-people-per-pool (FPPP) would decrease significantly from the perceived threat of a blubbery, bubbling demise.
Anyway, not all news from this weekend is so depressing; Gothamist has been tracking a pod of dolphins swimming around in long island sound! Apparently they're going to be here for a while hunting for herring in New York's tidal estuaries, and have already broken off into two gangs; the "City Island crew" and the "Long Island Sound crew" to take control of the herring game up north. Local fisherman have understandibly kept their distance from the pod, not wanting to get caught in the crossfire of a maritime version of New Jack City.
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