Posted on 07/09/2009 9:47:05 PM PDT by Corky Boyd
The Wall Street Journal has an excellent story today on the return of Lance Armstrong to the Tour de France, cycling’s most prestigious race. At this moment he is in second place, only a fraction of a second behind. At 37, ancient by cycling standards...
The story is about the French warming up to him. It’s about time!...
"[M]any of the locals saw him as cold, arrogant and overly competitive."
If they watched him race, they couldn't feel that way.
When Lance's arch rival, Jan Uhlrich, took a spill on a hill climb, Lance doubled back to wait for him to remount and then won the race in one the greatest examples of sportsmanship ever. At another time he let Ivan Basso from a competitive team win a mountain stage he could easily have taken. Basso had given
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Who is the oldest person to win the TDF
ET Magazine quoted Armstrong saying “If there was a god, I’d still have both nuts.”
A guy who abandons his wife and children is in NO way a champion, no matter what other achievements he may have accumulated.
>>ET Magazine quoted Armstrong saying “If there was a god, I’d still have both nuts.”
And Sheryl Crow could make an album that actually sold records.
Waaah.
Nothing to do with excellence in a sport
“Excellence in a sport” won’t do him any good when he goes to his judgment.
Perhaps. Maybe Plato and socrates and Divinci and Babe Ruth will be in hell too. But that doesn’t mean they weren’t excellent at their craft.
“A guy who abandons his wife and children is in NO way a champion, no matter what other achievements he may have accumulated.”
That’s why I had an argument this morning with a co-worker about McNair. He was shot by his mistress because..his mistress thought he was cheating on her. Now screwed up is that? Those people who feel sorry forMCnair keep forgetting about his kids who have to put up with this...’
FYI
“ET Magazine quoted Armstrong saying “If there was a god, I’d still have both nuts.”
So Lance didn’t see God in the miracle that he lived through his cancer?
He's an atheist.
Are you at it again??
“A guy who abandons his wife and children is in NO way a champion, no matter what other achievements he may have accumulated.”
Can you please show me where he abandoned them?? His wife left and filed for divorce because she didn’t want to live overseas and wanted him to quit racing. She said herself she didn’t want to live in his shadow and needed to find herself!
Good grief find out the facts first.
Well I bet Lance will be talking to God in the next stage, there is big mountain at the end of 220km.
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