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Lance Considers Comeback...
Tue, 09/06/2005 - 8:02am
Tue, 09/06/2005 - 8:19am
#1
Pissing off the French
The best way to pi$$ off the French would be to ride the Giro or the Vuelta.
Tue, 09/06/2005 - 9:33am
#2
That was a joke
"Armstrong Says Comeback Talk a Joke
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/sports/AP-CYC-Armstrong-Retirement-Joke.html"
Tue, 09/06/2005 - 2:11pm
#3
"From Lance's own site:
by Mark Higgins, CSE:
We have been getting a lot of calls on the Lance comments from today's Austin American Statesman.
>>
Here is a statement from Lance regarding his career:
""While I'm absolutely enjoying my time as a retired athlete with Sheryl and the kids, the recent smear campaign out of France has awoken my competitive side. I'm not willing to put a percentage on the chances but I will no longer rule it out..."" - Lance Armstrong
<<
Wow. THAT would be awesome."
Wed, 09/07/2005 - 4:20am
#4
Armstrong to train with team this winter
"PARIS (AP) -- Lance Armstrong plans to train with his team this winter, increasing speculation he will end his retirement and attempt an eighth straight Tour de France win.
(Full story at http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/sports/AP-CYC-Armstrong-Retirement.html)
"
Fri, 09/09/2005 - 6:01am
#5
"""Speaking at a motivational event in Mexico City on Wednesday, Lance Armstrong suggested to the audience that if he were to rejoin the professional peloton, the Giro d'Italia or Vuelta a España could be possibilities - adding ""there are a lot of reasons"" not to return to the Tour de France.""
full story at
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2005/sep05/sep09news2
"
Tue, 09/06/2005 - 10:54am
#6
a developing story, indeed...
Tue, 09/06/2005 - 1:48pm
#7
Lance and restaurant wisdom
"With no apologies to the woman (I know who you are) who recently posted a notice inviting me off this message board:
The French can sometimes be utterly impossible. Lance is letting them know that if they keep it up, there is a good chance he will humiliate them yet another time. In so doing, he doing more than sending chills down the pate fois gras that substitutes for spine in some quarters of the French sporting world. He is also being more French than the French, giving them a taste of their own philosophical medicine.
""If they insult your food, spit in their soup.""
--Old French restaurant kitchen maxim
Your Pal,
Etoain Shrdlu"
Tue, 09/06/2005 - 2:44pm
#8
"""The French can sometimes be utterly impossible.""
Nothing like a spot of lazy nation bashing based on stereotypes, eh? So much easier than actually thinking."
Tue, 09/06/2005 - 4:48pm
#9
in the last 20 years...
...did a single french rider win the tdf?
:)
don
Wed, 09/07/2005 - 7:07am
#12
"""Lazy nation bashing,"" mon derriere!"
Ordinarily I don't respond to foreign postings (except from Montenegro). However, I'll make an exception for my pal Claude (several postings above) who in a fashion that I, who have spent some time in France, find -- comment dit on? -- in character.
It's from a very recent Le Fiagro.
So Claude, here is your refutation. Dommage, c'est en francais.
http://www.lefigaro.fr/debats/20050905.FIG0175.html?082847
Ton copain,
Etoain
