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25-July-04, 11:46 AM
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| Advocatus Diaboli  |  Congrats Lance!!! Just a few moments ago, Lance Armstrong, having fought back cancer, has gone on to win the Tour de France a consecutive six times in a row. Congrats, Lance! Rob | |
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25-July-04, 12:09 PM
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| A George Orwell fan...sorta  | Don't you just love it when the media builds up a scandel anytime someone is successful? Doping or not, it takes a tremendous amount of determination and intestinal fortitude to do what he has over the last 6 years. NOBODY climbs hills like Lance! Congrats man! | |
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25-July-04, 12:15 PM
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| Retired Admin In Charge of Death and Destruction to All those Who Oppose My World known as PimpRig  | Yup! Watched him coast over the finish. Caught more than half the races this time. 6 now sets him as the BEST EVER. I watch it for the big middle finger to the french...hahahahahaha! | |
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25-July-04, 12:23 PM
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| A George Orwell fan...sorta |
I agree. I don't think it is mere coincidence that the French's best attributes are their cheese and their whine. (typo on purpose) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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25-July-04, 12:30 PM
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| Advocatus Diaboli |
Well, it has to be 'cause it sure isn't testicular fortitude!  Ah, just kidding, Lance. Never got to see him race in the tour when I lived in Italy. Wish I could have, though...he is a machine. Rob | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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25-July-04, 12:48 PM
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| Mystical Schwinn Guru  | Major props to Lance, I only wished I could climb like that, no hills in Florida  On the subject of bikes I just blew a rear tire out racing a few guys here in Suntree, was out chopping on the golf course which has separate bike paths, lots of bike paths and little alleyways and stuff, great for bikes.  Gotta get back to the LAN pwnage, cam is still up, playing UT2K4, won the last 6 matches so far  BRINg IT ON BEEEOTCH | |
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25-July-04, 01:33 PM
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| Key Hoe  | Lance is a freaking beast. I wish I could've been there when the German's were spitting on him, I would've started an international incident to protect Lance. And c'mon now, how awesome of a role model is he though? Fights back from the worst cancer, ever, and then breaks a record in one of the hardest things to do in modern sports. | |
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25-July-04, 01:55 PM
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Although he did leave his wife and go date movie stars. But we can fogive him for that for the whole beating cancer thing. I mentioned dodgeball earlier, for anyone who hasn't seen it, Lance is actually in it as himself and has some pretty good lines. Found this on IMDB...  Lance Armstrong: Hey, aren't you Peter La Fleur? Peter La Fleur: Lance Armstrong! Lance Armstrong: Ya, that's me. But I'm a big fan of yours. Peter La Fleur: Really? Lance Armstrong: Ya, I've been watching the dodgeball tournament on the Ocho. ESPN 8. I just can't get enough of it. Good luck in the tournament. I'm really pulling for you against those jerks from Globo Gym. I think you better hurry up or you're gonna be late. Peter La Fleur: Uh, actually I decided to quit... Lance. Lance Armstrong: Quit? You know, once I was thinking of quitting when I was diagnosed with brain, lung and testicular cancer all at the same time. But with the love and support of my friends and family, I got back on the bike and won the Tour de France five times in a row. But I'm sure you have a good reason to quit. So what are you dying of that's keeping you from the finals? Peter La Fleur: Right now it feels a little bit like... shame. Lance Armstrong: Well, I guess if a person never quit when the going got tough, they wouldn't anything to regret for the rest of their life. Well good luck to you Peter. I'm sure this decision won't haunt you forever. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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25-July-04, 02:11 PM
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| Apex Techie Wannabe | Don't get me wrong, it's great how he came back from cancer to be so successful. But calling him the greatest athlete of our generation is absurd. The greatest athletes play football, or basketball, or soccer, a few even play baseball. None of them ride bikes. He wins the Tour de France because he trains there all year long. He doesn't even win Olympic Gold in racing. I mean 6 in a row after cancer is incredible, but it's still riding a bike. | |
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25-July-04, 02:24 PM
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I'd like to see you try it. Geeze, even try riding a bike up a really long steep hill just once, I'd like to see how well you fared. Oh, try that after going through cancer. I'd like to see basketball players exert themselves the same way Lance does. Period. And since biking is just lower body, as you say, would you call some of the Olympic runners aren't as good of athletes as a basketball player? Whatever, I'm done | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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25-July-04, 02:43 PM
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Nope. His wife left him because he spent too much time obsessing over the Tour. I remember reading about thinking how stupid that is because his ex is very beautiful. They still have a "friends" relationship because of the kids, which is great. Rob | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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25-July-04, 03:10 PM
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| Mystical Schwinn Guru |
Cycling is one of the most diffucult sports ever. So wat if it's a bike? He still won, I'd like to see Shaq conquer the Alps, especially now that he's a stocky 340 pounds. Cycling is just as much if not more grueling of a sport than any other. In ball sports you can play indoors. In baseball if it rains they don't play. In road cycling if it rains, more riders will fall over. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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25-July-04, 03:16 PM
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| Apex Techie Wannabe | I never said anything about lower body, don't know where you got that... When little kids have their sports fantasies, they are about making the game winning shot at the buzzer, hitting a home run in the bottom of the 9th, making the winning goal, catching a touchdown pass. Very rarely are they about riding a bike. The best athletes do other forms of athletics than bike racing. Lance doesn't win Olympic gold in cycling, so his dominance as a cyclist comes into question. This has nothing to do with me trying to ride a bike. I don't think I could even finish the Tour de France. But I guarantee that if I dedicated myself 100%, I could more likely win the Tour than become a linebacker in the NFL. It kind of reminds me of Kobeyashi or however itÂ’s spelled, the Japanese eater. 53 1/2 hot dogs in 12 minutes. He is by far the greatest competitive eater in the world. But the thing is, he trains for it all the time year round. Not many people do that. He beats every American by like 20 dogs every contest. That's because the Americans don't train year round for that sort of event. They don't have the drive, because people don't care much about competitive eating. They care more about cycling, but not by much. Saying Lance Armstrong is a better athlete than Michael Jordan, or Ray Lewis, or Charles Woodson, or Ronaldo, or Rickey Henderson is absurd. As for Olympic runners, well it's looking more and more like they're all on steroids anyway, so who knows about that. | |
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