Armstrong Wins Record Sixth Tour De France

AP via Yahoo ^ | July 25, 2004 | Sports - AP

[Smartaleck]

PARIS - Lance Armstrong rode into history Sunday by winning the Tour de France for a record sixth time, an achievement that confirmed him as one of the greatest sportsmen of all time.

[umgud]

White French men can't jump

[marshmallow]

Lance is totally devoted to his mother? Cool. So was John Gotti. What does that prove?

Armstrong's sporting achievements are outstanding but Freepers really need to leave it right there. Just because he's given the French a black eye everyone wants to crown him king. Like many sports heros, he has an outstanding specific talent which does not play out in his personal life.

If it was Clinton or Kerry that left his family to bonk Sheryl Crow you guys would be all over it like a rash. Because it's Lance and he's stuck it the French.........er.....well we'll cut him some slack on that one.

Congratulations to Armstrong for a fine sporting performance. However, outside of cycling he has nothing to say to me.

[Republican Red]

I doubt USPS is paying Armstrong. But Armstrong gets many commercial endorsements and is the spokesman for Trek Bicycles. He is well off financially.

[Smartaleck]

"To: Hawk44 You're way off base."

Thanks for the insight.

Seems to me that Lance was past his cancer when he met his wife which makes Hawk wrong on that account. See bio
http://www.lancearmstrong.com/lance/online2.nsf/html/bio

Further....the guy had been touring and racing for a long time before he met and married. She knew what she was getting into.

[gopwinsin04]

Irnoically, with the course 'tricked up' by cobblestones, Mountain time trials etc, it only increased Lances desire to dominate.

[Smartaleck]

"Only in France would the leader wear a "yellow" jersey"

Thinking of themeselves as being "artsy", they figure the yellow contrast nicely when they crap their pants?

[Smartaleck]

"Phuck Phrance!!"

Phideaux says woof woof.

[Peach]

Ditto with regard to your France comment. Exactly. ROFLMAO

[CedarDave]

President Bush predicted that both he and Armstrong would win. He's so far right on the money with the first -- now for the second!

[Smartaleck]

"Is this where I'm supposed to exclaim "My hero"

Hero? Perhaps. Perhaps not.
Depends on how one assess there own skill level and admiration for those who aspire to be so much more.

I think when someone takes on the world and wins not once but six times they've proven themselves and a manner that is to be admired....an inspiration to others.

[John Lenin]

TEXAN WINS Tour de France

bwahahahahaa !

[Grampa Dave]

Schadenfreude works well for the French.

They are really good with their German.

[Smartaleck]

"Like many sports heros, he has an outstanding specific talent which does not play out in his personal life."

How so?

[dpwiener]

If it was Clinton or Kerry that left his family to bonk Sheryl Crow you guys would be all over it like a rash.

Actually I'd have had far more respect for Clinton if either one had left his family to bonk Sheryl Crow. I never thought Monica was very good looking (although clearly better than Hillary). And of course Clinton didn't even bother to divorce his wife.

So congratulations to Lance for landing Sheryl Crow! Add that to his incredible cycling victories, and he's on top of the world right now.

[Major_Risktaker]

REAL DEAL

PHONY DEAL

What is that French Fry doing on a bike?

[Tribune7]

Don't forget that Europe has little dissent in either its media or churches, and its business leaders are in bed with government.

Without our safeguards we'd be just like them. I strongly suspect that many Europeans are rooting for us secretely -- just as a lot of Iron Curtain citizens did during the Cold War.

It's one reason why I get ticked when I see Euro bashing.

[TomB]

If it was Clinton or Kerry that left his family to bonk Sheryl Crow you guys would be all over it like a rash

And I suppose you have evidence that he dumped his wife for Crow?

As everybody around here knows, it was an amicable separation, with Kristin eventually tiring of the traveling and living in Europe.

It's amazing. On EVERY Lance Armstrong thread the same stupid lies are brought out and then slapped down, yet they ooze to the surface again and again.

[asgardshill]

I freely admit that I predicted in another thread that Armstrong would not be allowed to win this Tour. All I can say is that I have rarely been more pleased to be wrong about an assumption.

Congratulations to him, to his teammates, and to the sportsmanship of the people of France (who mostly didn't attempt to interfere with him in any way).

[Hank Rearden]

a manner that is to be admired....an inspiration to others.

Except, perhaps, his wife and three small children that this bicycle-pedaler dumped.

Another boring, dumb, cheating, family-dumping jock. Feel free to admire that all you want.

[TomB]

That's the wife-dumping lump who pedals his little bicycle around France in an incredibly boring and useless exercise?

Quotes: Kristin Armstrong (February 2003): Marriage problems were "brought on gradually by a number of pressures, rather than one big blow-up. We've been together 4 1/2 years, and we've had six homes, three languages, three countries, one cancer comeback, three children, four Tour de France wins and one rise to celebrity. You're not supposed to cram such a huge amount of events into such a small period of time."

Doesn't sound like a "dumped" wife to me.