Celebrating Victory

The cycling World Championships were held this past Sunday in Salzburg, Austria. In typical fashion the 265km race came down to the last 700 meters in a sprint finish. The Italian Paolo Bettini took advantage of a Spanish leadout and beat the German Erik Zabel and Spaniard Alejandro Valverde to become the new champion.

Afterwards on the podium the two lads decided to celebrate by tossing Bettini into the crowd:



The Ryder Cup also concluded on Sunday with the European team making a right show of the Americans. The undisputed hero of the European team was the Irishman Darren Clarke who won all three of his matches including the singles match on Sunday on the 16th hole and broke then down in tears. It was an unbelievably emotional moment and I can tell you there wasn't a dry eye in the entire pub.

Later, in full celebratory mode he had a bit of fun. First he drowned the European captain Ian Woosnam in champagne:



Then, he downed a pint of Guinness in one:



I think it would be quite interesting to combine both celebrations. Something like downing a bunch of pints and then tossing around the smallest guy you can find...