The results are wrong. This is not a story about a guy who finished last. Taylor Phinney won that race.
Concludes Jason Gay of the Wall Street Journal in his article: This Is Not a Story About Last Place
Davis Phinney has lived with Parkinson’s disease for more than half of Taylor Phinney’s life. One of the great American racers of all time, a Tour de France stage winner and Olympian, Davis’s day is often met by frustrating physical challenges. Tasks that were once simple take so much longer. Ordinary life requires patience.
That’s what kept his son pedaling in the cold Italian rain.
“I knew that if my dad could be in my shoes for one day—if all he had to do was struggle on a bike for six hours, but be healthy and fully functional—he would be me on that day in a heartbeat,” Taylor Phinney said. “Every time I wanted to quit, every time I wanted to cry, I just thought about that.”
No doubt Taylor Phinney is mature way beyond his 22 years on this planet.
