Mr. Rogers’ neighborhood: Down but certainly not out
Down, but far from being out, is the theme this week; applicable notjust to Aussie Nathan O’Neill, who proved skeptics wrong last week witha dramatic Australian national time trial championship only six monthsafter a potentially life-threatening spinal injury, but to the mid-AprilHyundai Sea Otter Classic road stage race and to the Tourde Georgia, which goes into 2004 with a renewed commitment from its titlesponsor, Dodge.A smaller, tougher OtterOriginally a mountain bike event, the Sea Otter Classic — a UCI-sanctionedstage race won by O’Neill last year — had well-documented road course