Davis Phinney said he didn't learn about Taylor's ride until after it was over.
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As the rest of the group abandoned the race, Phinney put his head down and pedaled.
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Phinney was competing in Italy's Tirreno-Adriatico stage race, and this penultimate stage was a doozy.
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"I just was dangling, " Phinney said on the phone, from his home in Tuscany.
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"I have almost no words for how amazing it makes me feel, " Davis Phinney said.
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"Emotion is powerful and undeniably human, " Phinney's mother, Connie Carpenter, said in an email from Italy.
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Davis Phinney has lived with Parkinson's disease for more than half of Taylor Phinney's life.
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Phinney had aspirations of becoming a lawyer, majoring in Political Science at the University of Arizona.
"He wanted so badly to finish the race, " said Phinney's teammate, Thor Hushovd, a former world champion.
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American Taylor Phinney spent a month recovering from a concussion in 2011 after crashing on a training ride.
Phinney had produced 285 cases of The Prisoner in 2000 after working for other wineries in the area and needed an outlet.
Back home in Colorado, Davis Phinney was marveling at the whole story.
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It was a bummer, but Phinney was too zonked to be devastated.
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But Phinney remembered a story his Dad had told him about one of his old Tour de France teams, making a pact to decline pushes.
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The son of two cycling legends, Davis Phinney and Connie Carpenter.
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"He never lost his motivation, " said Fabio Baldato, an assistant director for Phinney's team, BMC Racing, who was driving a car behind Phinney the entire route.
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Soon Phinney found himself in a small group of 30 or so riders who had fallen off the main field, with about 130 kilometers, or 80 miles, left.
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He just wanted to hang around, because the next day brought a time trial against the clock, and Phinney had a chance for a good result in that event.
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Phinney's solo effort and his emotions post-race had stirred something soulful.
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Phinney's solo effort and his emotions post-racel had stirred something soulful.
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Phinney said became clear that nobody wanted to finish.
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When wine maker Dave Phinney was looking for a label for his latest Zinfandel blended wine, he looked no further than an etching by Spanish artist Francisco Jose de Goya (1746-1828).
And Phinney kept thinking of one thing.
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Phinney didn't expect to win this stage.
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Hours later, Phinney crossed the line, exhausted.
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But Phinney wanted to fight now.
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"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.
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