I'm really happy. I don't know why I'm taking it so well,'' he said. He is unconcerned about the train he has missed over the winter, though. The eye is the priority. If I can't see out of my right eye, there's no way I'm going to get into a sprint where two eyes are sometimes not enough.
Cycling is a risk sport.
It could have happened anywhere. He is less sanguine about the way the German press has ignored his plight, preferring to concentrate on the doping confession of his former team-mate Richard Virenque and on the Tour prospects of Telekom's Jan Ullrich. Alexia's tyeam for the Costa degli Etruschi will be Dario Andriotto, Giacomo Battistel, Marco Battiston, Daniele Galli, Alessandro Guerra, Marco Magnani, Daniele Righi, Antonio Salomone, Eddy Serri, Gianluca Valoti and Mauro Zinetti. As if the usual hazards of traffic and weather weren't enough, Mapei rider Paolo Bettini has been bitten by a monkey while training in Malaysia for the Tour of Langkawi. The Mapei training group stopped to admire a female macaque monkey, but she became agitated and bit Bettini, who happened to be closest, on the left leg.