One of our stops on vacation to give the kids a break from the car was COSI Columbus. Their IMAX theater was featuring the movie " Wired To Win - Surviving the Tour de France ". While the kids were off playing, I took the time to see this movie, which presented footage from the Tour interspersed with computer graphics and medical imagery to demonstrate how the brain deals with what some have called the ultimate test of the human brain. The movies follows the efforts of Francais de Jeux riders Baden Cooke and Jimmy Caspar as they pursue their destinies in the 2003 Tour. We watch as they struggle to avoid danger, fight crushing pain and fatique, control their emotions, seize opportunities and stay motivated. Apparently, the movie producers originally planned to follow Tyler Hamilton, but his doping scandal at the Vuelta a Espana forced them to change to focus to Caspar. Caspar was caught up in a huge crash in the first stage of that year's Tour and the cameras followed him ...
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