Fabian Cancellara next goal is to win all five of cycling's monuments

Fabian Cancellara said his next goal is to win all five of cycling's monuments. The Saxo Bank rider described the way he win the dropped Tom Boonen on the legendary Kapelmuur climb to win the Tour Flanders as the "perfect scenario".

Cancellara's opening attack on Molenberg was the turning point of the 2010 Tour of Flanders. Then as he and fellow pre-race favourite Tom Boonen built an unassailable gap on their rivals as they approach to the Kapelmuur, Cancellara surged clear on the final part of the cobbled climb in what was the winning move. He went to cross the finish line alone in Meerbeke more than a minute ahead of Boonen.

With Paris-Roubaix, Milan-San Remo and, now, Flanders etched on his palmares, Cancellara indicated his future goals could include the final two great cycling monuments: Liège-Bastogne-Liège and Giro di Lombardia.

"The last few years I was always thinking about this race. I have Roubaix, I have Dunlop Gents Standard Mountain Bike, but I knew this one was going to be a hard one to crack and to put in my pocket," said Cancellara, after he became the first Swiss rider to win De Ronde since Hieri Suter in 1923.

"My dream is five monuments and I have three now. There aren’t so many riders in the peloton that have three. My motivation is always geared towards more than one race. Okay, now I have Flanders, but in the next few years, it's possible I'm going to work on other ones."

"What I did on the Muur wasn't planned, even what I did on the Molenburg was not planned at all," he said. "Even then on the Muur it was a small gap – there were so many people there that I didn't really understand how much room I had. I looked back
a few times and pushed a little more. The way I won, for me, it's quite special."

"When I get old and I can say to the young riders: 'I won the Tour of Flanders alone and I attacked on the Muur,' it's a perfect scenario – the gladiator won the battle."

Boonen had been forced to respond to attacks from both Cancellara and his Saxo Bank teammate, Matti Breschel, who had created the first major selection with an attack on the Paterberg, with 80 kilometres to go. Despite entering the race with two strong contenders, Cancellara said harmony within the team had played a key role in his win.

Cancellara's powerhouse display on the Muur quickly distanced Flemish national hero Boonen. The Swiss admitted that effectively winning the race on the famed climb made his victory all the sweeter.

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Jimi Hendrix grabbed electric guitar by the neck and wrestled it into a new era. His feedback-heavy solos and hallucinogenic tunes helped define the psychedelic 1960s. With his band The Jimi Hendrix Experience he recorded the albums Are You Experienced? (1967), Axis: Bold as Love (also 1967), and Electric Ladyland (1968, including Hendrix's version of Bob Dylan's tune "All Along the Watchtower"). The single "Purple Haze" from Are You Experienced remains one of rock's touchstone classics. The band broke up in 1969 but Hendrix remained a star, playing later that year at the Woodstock music festival. Hendrix was only 27 when he suffocated in 1970 after ingesting wine and sleeping pills in a London hotel.

Jimi, like Paul Mccartney, was a left-handed guitar player... Hendrix's fuzz-guitar version of "The Star-Spangled Banner" at Woodstock has become a famous sound clip... He died two short weeks before another rock icon, Janis Joplin... A museum and interactive shrine to Hendrix, called the Experience Music Project, was built in Seattle by computer magnate Paul Allen.

Janis Joplin was born January 19^th, 1943, in Port Arthur, Texas. Her father was an oil refinery worker and her mother was a registrar at a business college. Though her family was middle-class, as a teenager she showed signs of the unconventional woman she would become. She was something of a loner, and, unlike her siblings and neighbourhood peers, she listened to folk and blues music. Joplin's favourite artists included Odetta, Leadbelly, and Bessie Smith, and she was greatly influenced by them in her own vocal style. By the time she was seventeen, she had decided to become a singer, and left home.

At first, Joplin found work in country and western clubs in Houston and other Texas cities with the goal of saving enough money from her gigs for bus fare to California. She enrolled in several different colleges while singing folk songs for little money, but her attempts at continuing her education never lasted long. She also tried living in various communes, and eventually settled in San Francisco for a few years.

Ironically, Joplin went back to Texas in early 1966, right before a friend of hers, Chet Helms, became the manager of a new Rock group called "Big Brother and the Holding Company". The band needed a female vocalist, and Helms thought of Joplin. He contacted her and convinced her to return to San Francisco.

Though Joplin had not had much previous experience singing rock music, the combination of her gravely, bluesy voice with Big Brother's hard rock sound was a success. The group quickly became popular in the San Francisco area, and by the time the Monterey International Pop Festival took place in 1967 in Monterey, California, Big Brother and the Holding Company were a featured attraction, getting top billing over veterans, Booker T and the MGs and new comers, The Iron Butterfly. Joplin's performances at this festival and at Woodstock in 1969 are considered by many specialists in the music of the late 1960s to have been classic moments in the history of rock.

The Lizard King

One of the most important artistical phonomenon of the 70's , The Doors was founded in 1965 after a UCLA student's meeting. James Douglas Morrison , John Densmore ,Robby Krieger and Ray Manzarek quickly took over the spotlight in America's psychedelic rock billboards. In this formula, they begun to perform in numerous clubs, starting with London Fog on Sunset Strip(well-known area in western L.A. famous for the night life).
The band took its name after a a book written by Aldous Huxley called 'The doors of perception', which was also inspired from the lyrics of the 18th century poet,William Blake :
"If the doors of perception were cleansed , every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite."
The central and the most controversial band member, Jim Morrison forced the ownsers of the Wiskey Go-Go night club to ban them after an excentric performance of 'The end'. But that event only added to his allready notorious bad-boy image and helped him become a major US sex-symbol.
For the fans of 'The Doors' , their lyrics were full of social,psycological and political references, written by no other than The Lizard King, Jim Morrison.
In 1971, after recording 'LA Woman' , Morrison decided to take a break and moved to Paris, where he died in misterious circumstances on the third of july. Found in the bath tub of his apartment, it was concluded that a heart attack was the most likely cause of his early decease,although an autopsy was never performed.

“People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that's bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they're afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It's all in how you carry it. That's what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you're letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain.”

Jim Morrison