Also, with no "hopefuls" in the junior ranks that we can see with our binoculars coming up to replace LCW when his career winds down in what?...3 years from now, and given that LCW probably can still challenge the world's best this year and next year, would represent the best hope for gold that MAS can count on, esp with WC07 at home and OG08 next...it is now or wait for a long, long time.