07/27/2003 Entry: "Congratulations Lance!"
Posted by Maynard @ 02:28 PM MST

Congratulations Lance!

Lance Armstrong won his fifth Tour de France today, putting him in league with only 4 other riders in the history of the sport. There's lots of talk of how things might have been different if Jan Ullrich had been a better rider, but what's done is done. Lance is the better athlete, and he rode today with the graciousness that has marked his return from cancer.

That being said, I'd like to offer my little tribute...

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Auspiciously enough, Lance Armstrong set a new record for pace for the Tour de France at over 25 mph. My theory is that France is so ugly that Lance was perpetually forced to put as much of it behind him as he could in a timely fashion. So..... now that we've won France for the fifth time I have only one question....... can we give it back to Germany?

Posted by Rudy Stadelman @ 07/27/2003 05:05 PM MST

Fifth time?

Who do you think won France back in WWI and WWII? PeTA?

Posted by Jeremy @ 07/27/2003 09:11 PM MST

We did, but this is the 5th time Lance has won it. BTW, he's only the 2nd American ever to win the TdF, the other being Greg Lemond.

Posted by Maynard @ 07/28/2003 10:48 AM MST

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