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Seabiscuit and Lance Armstrong: Schmaltz, cornpone . . . and true
San Jose-Mercury News ^ | Monday, July 28, 2003 | Bill Lyon, Knight Ridder Newspapers

Posted on 07/28/2003 10:16:24 PM PDT by nutmeg

Edited on 04/13/2004 3:31:37 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

PHILADELPHIA - (KRT) - They wait, snorting and prancing in the starting gate, nostrils flared and eyes rolled, each one half a ton of coiled energy quivering to be loosed.

And one of the jockeys looks down sneeringly at the racehorse named Seabiscuit and says to the man on the little horse's back: "Kinda small, isn't he?"


(Excerpt) Read more at bayarea.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: lancearmstrong; seabiscuit; tourdefrance

1 posted on 07/28/2003 10:16:24 PM PDT by nutmeg
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To: concentric circles; bicycle thug; mattdono; ewing; austinTparty
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2 posted on 07/28/2003 10:17:36 PM PDT by nutmeg (Is the DemocRATic party extinct yet?)
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To: nutmeg
Thanks for bringing this to my attention. There has been a whole lot written about Lance Armstrong and much more to come. I'm tempted to post some of the better stories and interviews, while they are still available on line, so that they will be preserved here at Free Republic.
3 posted on 08/02/2003 8:47:18 AM PDT by concentric circles
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To: nutmeg
He didn’t just BEAT cancer,he stomped that bastard into the ground!
Check out CNN people in news on Lance Armstrong,has cat named “chemo”!
http://www.lancearmstrong.com/
4 posted on 08/31/2003 3:56:37 AM PDT by wiseone
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