HUGE NEWS FOR TAYLOR PHINNEY...THE LATEST FREAK ON WHEELS?

All right, I talked a bunch of smack on this kid not in the too far distant past, something about how can you root for the kid. Well, I guess I eat the big pile of pooh on that one. It appears Taylor is the latest freak show to ride on two wheels. And I've got to give credit where credit is due. The kid has had to deal with a BIG TIME family crisis watching his father suffer through the effects of Parkinsons only to benefit from some crazy surgery which required a probe being surgically placed in his brain to control the tremors of the disease. For Taylor to deal with the trauma of seeing his dad (Davis) go through all this and to be able to perform as he has is pretty amazing...and he beat the record by more than a second. Crush away Taylor, I'm ringing more cowbell for your blistering fast ass.
American Taylor Phinney, the 2007 world junior time trial champion, set a new world junior pursuit record Monday at the ADT Event Center velodrome in Carson, California.
Phinney’s time of 3:16.589 in the 3000-meter individual pursuit broke Australian Michael Ford’s four-year-old record of 3:17.775. It was the first world record set at the ADT Event Center — the same track where Phinney won a pursuit World Cup in January.
Phinney's World Cup pursuit times qualified him for an automatic nomination to the U.S. Olympic track squad. Although already chosen for the team, Phinney, who turns 18 on June 27, was training in Los Angeles with USA Cycling’s Olympic team selection camp.