This for Rochelle Wisoff-Fields’ Friday Fictioneers
His trainer was pretty sure that he had given up on the Tour de France. This was surprising because he had worked so hard all these years, in the gym and on the road. Physically and mentally Keith had taken great care of himself and was considered by some to be a super-athlete. He had spent a fortune on nutritionists and food supplements and was as perfect a cyclist as you could get. In media interviews he had always come across as determined and single-minded, pre-requisites for success in his field.
No one knew that he’s allergic to the colour yellow.
patrickprinsloo 
Must be an intersting form of synaesthesia! How inconvenient.
A real problem! Thanks for visiting.
Hilarious! I didn’t see that one coming 😀
Thanks for that.
Having a real problem accessing my own blog and commenting on others’. Support pages full of it, but no solution offered yet. Oh, the stress!
Me too! It took several tries to get into yours and mine’s been blocked again for a couple of days! I hope they sort it out soon.
Well done!
Thanks, mum.
Okay home boy.
Well crafted tale. The detail in the training perfect. The colour Yellow. I am also allergic to it. Prefer black always.
Thanks for kind words. And yes, yellow bad, black good.
Nice one Patrick, different take.
Thanks, Sandra.
After all, Green Lantern can’t handle yellow! So why not a cyclist?
My thought too.
Oh, I do like this. Reminds me of the Indianapolis 500 race, where they say driving a green car is bad luck. Though I think they are the colors of the Racer Danika Patrick!
Just to let you know you might want to alert WP as your comment ended up in spam, but I saved you! 🙂 Thanks for your visit.
Thanks for visiting etc. And thanks for the tip-off re spam. I’m getting stuff in my spam folder as well – not yours. WP seems to be a bit wobbly at the moment.
That would definitely be a problem, although obviously Chris Froome doesn’t share that allergy. Hypnotism, perhaps?
janet
Or acupuncture maybe.
Dear Patrick,
I didn’t know a person could be allergic to a color. Yellow dye perhaps? Fun story.
shalom,
Rochelle
In this case it’s the colour yellow. You see, when he was only two years old, late one afternoon … .
😉
A career that need not be cruelly cut in its prime! All his trainer needs do is find a way of getting Keith to be mellow about yellow.
A good solution. Thanks for reading.
Never saw the ending coming. Allergic to yellow? Strange.
Well, cyclists! You know.
Hopefully there are other races where the champion does not need to wear a yellow top! Maybe the ‘giro’? Funny and week-done!
Hopefully. Good idea.
And I meant well-done not week-done! 😦
Yep, I gathered.