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	Rainbow jersey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Rainbow jersey is the distinctive jersey worn by the reigning world champion in a bicycle racing discipline.
		The "Rainbow Jersey" is not to be confused with the uniforms worn by the Houston Astros baseball team in the 1970s and 1980s.
		Notable 'victims' of the curse include the 1970 world champion Jean-Pierre Monseré who died wearing the rainbow jersey in March 1971 and Laurent Brochard, the world champion of 1997, who became involved in a doping scandal a year later.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rainbow_jersey (778 words)

	Rainbow jersey @ Sport.y2u.co.uk
		After the end of a rider's championship year, he or she is eligible to wear an armband in the same rainbow pattern for the remainder of his or her career.
		The "Rainbow Jersey" is not to be confused with the uniforms worn by the Houston Astros baseball team in the 1970s.
		The Curse of the Rainbow Jersey is a popular term to refer to the fact that cyclists who have become World Champion often have a lot of bad luck the next year - though, in some cases, the 'bad luck' was brought on by their own actions.
	y2u.co.uk /sub028_Sport/Tour_De_France/Tf_Rainbow_Jersey.html (666 words)

	The Curse on the Serpent--Part 1 -- John MacArthur
		We have a curse on the serpent; we have a curse on Satan; we have a curse also on the woman, in Verse 16; we have a curse on the man, from Verse 17 to 19.
		In Verse 15, you have the curse of the supernatural Satan.
		But cursing the serpent serves a purpose, and I'll show you what that is. "Cursed are you more than all cattle, more than every beast of the field." Now, this might at first seem to indicate that God cursed all the animals.
	www.biblebb.com /files/MAC/90-241.htm (5718 words)

	Daily Peloton - Pro Cycling News
		Astarloa, who won the points jersey and a stage in the recent Brixia Tour, is now happier and maybe convinced that he is not suffering from “the curse of the Rainbow jersey” that old cycling superstition that riders in the Rainbow inevitably have a season of bad luck while riding in the famous Rainbow Colours.
		Wearing the Rainbow jersey means that you are closely watched and you have a large responsibility too.
		Astarloa may have ridden himself away from the “Curse of the Rainbow” jersey when he left Cofidis.
	www.dailypeloton.com /displayarticle.asp?pk=6800 (958 words)

	Sermon: Genesis 6-9 "The Divine Change"
		The rainbow is a perennial sign of hope for that very reason.
		Migliore thought they misunderstood the question, but on further checking, he discovered the truth: about the only place these kids, consigned to asphalt jungles and high-rise tenements, had seen a rainbow was in street puddles that had become slicked with oil from a car with a leaky engine.
		They don't need a rainbow soaring over the Rocky Mountains, they need one in the greasy puddles of their everyday lives.
	www.calvincrc.org /sermons/topics/genesis/genesis6.html (2858 words)

	Bettini earns his stripes
		Cycling's history is full of racers who wilted under the curse of the rainbow jersey after winning the world championships.
		The German checked Valverde's early sprint and surged toward the elusive rainbow jersey until the Cricket bounded past his right shoulder to win by a half bike length.
		Bettini's win was the first by the favored Italians since Mario Cipollini won in 2002, and the 14th Italian to win the rainbow jersey.
	www.velonews.com /race/int/articles/10927.0.html (2128 words)

	Rainbow Rage
		The Rainbow Rage is one of the biggest cycling events in this area.
		Well Rainbow is metalled (gravel) not sealed, and the section from Lake Tennyson down to the base of Jack's Pass is pretty well covered in holes and rough corrugations.
		I noticed most riders were in shorts and light jerseys, despite all the advice to the contrary on the ride website and brochure!
	www.blayleys.com /trips/2003/rainbowrage/index.htm (3586 words)

	Bobke Strut........."Ignore Alien Orders"
		One of the persistent maxims of professional cycling is that once a rider wins the professional world title, his next season (while wearing the rainbow jersey) will be frought with calamity.
		Igor Astarloa is the reigning world champion and his season, while devoid of victories, has been remarkably consistent as he hones his form for the season long World Cup and northern Europe's Spring Classics.
		Unfortunately, Astarloa dared to suggest that the curse was merely a myth...
	www.unc.edu /~hymas/2004/03/curse-of-rainbow-jersey.html (736 words)

	Smithers MINNEAPOLIS: The curse of the rainbow jersey
		While it's a great honor to wear the rainbow jersey of World Champion for the season, and the World Championship race is always a hard fought battle, those that have been "fortunate" to be able to wear the jersey have not always had a blessed season.
		Or is the Rainbow Jersey Curse a myth?
		I personally think that the curse is a myth and the jersey simply causes the press to focus their attention on a single rider, and their ups and downs, for an entire season.
	www.smithersmpls.com /2006/01/curse-of-rainbow-jersey.html (882 words)

	Castlevania: Curse of Darkness Screenshots - Xbox
		Now, three years after Dracula was defeated in battle, the magic power of the curse released upon his death has infected all of Europe.
		Curse of Darkness also features an increased number of unlockable features that are sure to draw players deeper into the Castlevania universe.
		Castlevania: Curse of Darkness will be available for the Xbox and the PlayStation 2 computer entertainment system in the fall.
	news.teamxbox.com /xbox/9585/Castlevania-Curse-of-Darkness-Screenshots (358 words)

	Penn State says 'Aloha' to Hawaii with win ::
		At first, this was somewhat of a curse, toiling in the cornfields of Nebraska.
		Out of a Rainbow Wahine timeout, a block from junior Cassy Salyer and freshman Christa Harmotto gave Penn State a 13-11 cushion.
		Thurlby, Tortorello's high school teammate and back-up setter for the Rainbow Wahine, was a friendly rival that gave Tortorello personal motivation.
	www.cstv.com /sports/w-volley/uwire/090605aas.html (700 words)

	Rainbow Magic - Story Challenge
		The tyrant was furious and in his anger forced cursed shoes on my delicate feet.
		The curse on the shoes was that whoever wore them would go in the opposite direction of the place they wanted to get.
		The cursed shoes took me away from all civilization and brought me farther and farther away from Fairyland.
	www.rainbow-magic.com /library/yourstories2.html (6686 words)

	Cage of Monkeys Weblog \| Archived Entry \| The Tour so far... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The little green goblin from Australia won three stages, the yellow jersey passed hands a few times and occassionally turned a rather gruesome shade of red, and is now in the hands of the virtually unknown Cyril Dessel, who broke away in today's first Pyrenean stage.
		Also, the curse of the rainbow jersey finally seems to have kicked in for Tom Boonen, who can't sprint for shit this week.
		As the race hits the first mega-mountain stage, the doping furore is all but forgotten and the Tour begins properly.
	www.cageofmonkeys.co.uk /archives/00000958.html (533 words)

	Saturday's EuroFile: Astarloa's screwed; Hinault on Di Luca's rivals; Perez Cuapio takes Trentino
		The 28-year-old may be living proof that the curse of the rainbow jersey truly exists.
		He was never implicated in the doping scandal and left his contract to join Lampre, but he was never able to hit his stride with the Italian team.
		Astarloa won only two races wearing the rainbow jersey in 2004, a stage at the Brixia Tour and the Circuito di Maderno, hardly top-shelf stuff for the man from Urmea.
	www.velonews.com /race/int/articles/7929.0.html (838 words)

	Podium Cafe :: A Cycling Blog
		The Rainbow Jersey has covered the shoulders of some unlikely figures in recent years, nobodies like Romans Vainsteins or enigmatic figures like Oscar Freire, Igor Astarloa.
		On his website he recently wrote "It will really hurt when I have to pass on that jersey to someone else in Salzburg, which is why I will fight for what I'm worth.
		I'll see to it that I'm at the height of my powers and will be distracted by no one." Not a bad epitaph on his championship year, one in which he rode with the class of a true world champion.
	www.podiumcafe.com /story/2006/9/21/05846/5031 (663 words)

	Surfing The Apocalypse
		THE CURSE OF PALMYRA ISLAND--Forteans and other students of the strange and bizarre are probably well versed regarding the subjects of ghosts, hauntings and curses.
		THE JERSEY DEVIL STORY--The Jersey Devil, the supposed mythical creature of the New Jersey Pinelands, has haunted New Jersey and the surrounding areas for the past 260 years.
		THE JERSEY DEVIL OF THE PINE BARRENS--"It is a haunted place where the blood red waters of the Mullica River rise in the bog of a New Jersey town....
	www.surfingtheapocalypse.com /unexplained.html (7587 words)

	Fantasy Cycling Teams (2006) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		As she has more than once before, Lisa has drafted in the new World Champion; this year in the shape of Tom Boonen who must overcome the fabled curse of the rainbow jersey.
		The star of Lisa's team was, of course, Landis: winner of a stage (plus four minor placings), multiple regainer of the yellow jersey, second in the Mountains competition and winner overall; a new hero for us all in the post-Armstrong era.
		The only problem was that Landis failed a dope test during the tour and will probably be stripped of his win, casting the darkest cloud yet over the sport; our "new hero" became a total zero less than a week after his supposed triumph.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /nightwol/fcl/fcl06.html (1609 words)

	CYCLING : Gears aren't meshing yet for Cipollini
		Or is his problem the so-called Curse of the Rainbow Jersey, the one worn by the world champion?
		Many another rider has faltered badly in the jersey, which seems to inspire rivals to their best efforts to prove they are unimpressed by it and its wearer.
		Cipollini is extremely popular in Italy, where he is one of the few star riders never to have been implicated in a drug scandal.
	www.iht.com /articles/2003/05/17/bike_ed3__1.php (633 words)

	Giro di Lombardia : 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Caisse D'Epargne's Valverde has clinched the white jersey, given to the winner of the UCI Pro Tour, but would not have been awarded the prize at the final event of the year had he raced.
		Tour of Lombardy organisers RCS, who also run the Giro D'Italia, said they would not allow Valverde to be awarded the white jersey at the finish in Lake Como because of their ongoing feud with the Pro Tour.
		It seems that the curse of the rainbow jersey struck Bettini harder then most with the loss of his brother.
	www.cyclingforums.com /t368827.html (1406 words)

	9/24/06 WSJ Report Banana curse? You decide. - Pierandsurf.com
		I point it out to her and she thinks it's wonderful, cutting off the hot sun that way and all, and "isn't that a rainbow?" I tell her yes, that's a rainbow, and that we'd better pack up and leave.
		I explain that that rainbow is caused by rain between us and the sun and that cloud with all that rain in it is coming our way.
		Well, she hits me with the ol' "fish don't mind rain" and "don't worry about the thunder, it's lightening that'll hurt you" so we stay a bit longer.
	www.pierandsurf.com /forum/showthread.php?p=225781 (488 words)

	JOHN F. MacARTHUR, "The Curse On The Serpent" - Part 1 - 0156
		JOHN F. MacARTHUR, "The Curse On The Serpent" - Part 1 - 0156
		Well, I have a daunting task in front of me to some degree; to take you into the third chapter of Genesis and deal with one of the great portions of scripture.
		And I think, as Leupold writes, the fact that this beast still stands under a curse is apparent from the peculiar revulsion that it still rouses in most people.
	www.ondoctrine.com /2mac0156.htm (5736 words)

	www.cyclingnews.com news and analysis
		My first thoughts when he won the world road race championship in Madrid last year was would he be exposed to the supposed "Curse of the Rainbow Jersey" as many before him have been.
		I feared that he would, due to the greater exposure of the Rainbow Jersey, be a marked man but hoped that his power and amazing ability to read a race would carry him to at least the success he enjoyed in 2005.
		As for the curse, it appears that after last Sunday's Paris-Roubaix race the exact opposite may be happening, after finishing 5th then being promoted to second place.
	www.cyclingnews.com /letters/?id=2006/04-14letters (7331 words)

	www.cyclingnews.com news and analysis
		Despite claiming the previous day that he wasn't feeling at his best, world champion Oscar Freire has shrugged off the 'curse of the rainbow jersey' to win the first in the five-race Challenge Illes Balears-Volta a Mallorca series.
		The curse of this jersey does not affect me," said Freire after his win.
		All the colours of the peloton rainbow were on display in the Mallorca sunshine
	www.cyclingnews.com /road.php?id=road/2005/feb05/balears05/balears051 (836 words)

	Cyclocosm - Pro Cycling Blog: The Curse of the Rainbow Jersey - Rant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In the past, I may have attributed some long losing streaks to curses, and it seems to start raining pretty much every time I get off work, but these instances of bad luck aren't anything outside the realm of probability.
		There's 30 teams in the major leagues (though there haven't always been, but there didn't used to be play-offs, either), so with a perfectly even distribution, since the first Series in 1903, each team should have won between 3 and 4 times by now.
		Then there's Johan Museeuw, arguably the greatest classics rider in history, who won the rainbow back in 1996, when he was just another Belgian hardman.
	cyclocosm.com /2005/08/curse-of-rainbow-jersey-rant.html (1072 words)

	CPA to present musical inspired by a 'Rainbow'
		Inspired by the Emmy Award-winning PBS series, Reading Rainbow the Musical is based on a selection of seven popular children's books: Amazing Grace, Owen, Martha Speaks, Borreguita and the Coyote, Math Curse, Applemando's Dreams and Imogene's Antlers.
		The Reading Rainbow cast has performed before grade school students and families across the country, and Pinker said the best part is the audiences.
		Reading Rainbow tickets are $8 and available at the Arts Ticket Center between 8 a.m.
	www.collegian.psu.edu /archive/2002/02/02-08-02tdc/02-08-02darts-07.asp (361 words)

	John Quincy Adams: Constitutional Law
		Those of Delaware on the 22nd of February, and 5th of May, 1779 - but Maryland held out to the last and positively refused the ratification, until the question of the conflicting claims of the Union, and of the separate states to the property of the crown- lands should be adjusted.
		The legislative, judicial, and executive powers, like the prismatic colors of the rainbow, are entirely separate and distinct; but they melt so imperceptibly into each other that no human eye can discern the exact boundary line between them.
		The broad features of distinction between them are perceptible to all; but perhaps neither of them can be practically exercised without occasional encroachment upon the borders of its neighbor.
	www.lonang.com /exlibris/misc/1839-jub.htm (13089 words)

	Marlins prove to Yankees, baseball world that pride and pizzazz doesn't come with luxury price tag
		NEW YORK -- It wasn't a decades-old curse or a hex that tumbled at the end of a marathon baseball season packed with twists and turns and a wild ride through the postseason.
		It was the Yankees who fell, done in by a wild-card team that had no fear.
		McKeon prodded and pushed and cajoled through a series of talks that he said are the kind of talks a father has with a son.
	www.post-gazette.com /pirates/20031027series1027p4.asp (948 words)

	The Tower of Babel Affair
		That is our pattern: to come to Christ where the curse of God against sin is poured out, to be clothed in His righteousness, and then to learn that path of humble service to others within the human family which is the true and only road to real greatness....
		Moreover, the effects of the curse are overturned and the proper desires of the human heart are provided for, not by man in rebellion against God, to be sure, but by the gracious and forgiving God Himself from whom all truly good gifts come.
		The curse was the confusion of languages, but God brings blessing from the curse.
	www.ldolphin.org /babel.html (15207 words)

	BBC News \| Sport \| World championship road race preview
		Aside from the Tour de France leader's yellow, the Rainbow Jersey handed to the winner of the World Championship road race is the one all cyclists want to wear.
		The single-day nature of the race, and the presence of national teams containing riders not always prepared to ride for each other, means the potential list of winners is much wider than the three-week journey around France.
		He came back with two stage wins and the points jersey at the recent Tour of Spain and looks as good a bet as anyone for Verona.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/sport/463366.stm (1342 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Kirby Canvas Curse for DS at Epinions.com
		Kirby: Canvas Curse is one of the better platformers to be released recently.
		Kirby: Canvas Curse probably doesnï¿½t look very appealing to someone who has better things to do than roll a handicapped hero around, but this title has turned out to be one of the most enjoyable and especially innovative platforming titles to be released for any system in a long time.
		Considering that it is a title about rainbows and a pink-colored hero, Canvas Curse has appropriately bright and cheery visuals.
	www.epinions.com /content_194805993092?linkin_id=3057321 (1130 words)

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