WharfRat
Practice Squad
I was asked in an interview about 2 years ago, who my hero was.
Without hesitation, I responded... Lance Armstrong. The man has overcome cancer, and won the Tour de France 4 times straight. He's now going for a record tying 5th straight win, the first American to do so, and only the 2nd ever... in a year that I personally would love to see an American do what no Frenchman could do...in France....
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Ride Lance, Ride!! :up:
Without hesitation, I responded... Lance Armstrong. The man has overcome cancer, and won the Tour de France 4 times straight. He's now going for a record tying 5th straight win, the first American to do so, and only the 2nd ever... in a year that I personally would love to see an American do what no Frenchman could do...in France....
LUZ-ARDIDEN, France (AP) - His yellow jersey smeared with dirt after a fall, Lance Armstrong got back on his bike with a fierce look that said it all: The Tour de France is slipping away. It's now or never.
Riding like the four-time champion he is, Armstrong overcame a hard crash and two weeks of lackluster form to tear away from his closest challengers Monday and set cycling's premier race up for a gripping finale.
In its 100-year history, the Tour has witnessed many epic days, but few like this.
A spectator knocked Armstrong off his bike just as he was accelerating away from archrival Jan Ullrich in the day's last ascent, to the ski resort of Luz-Ardiden high in the misty Pyrenees.
His left elbow grazed, the 31-year-old Texan picked himself up, remounted and, fueled by the adrenaline of the crash, stormed past Ullrich to perhaps save his chances of equaling Miguel Indurain's record of five successive Tour wins.
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Ride Lance, Ride!! :up: