TOUR de LANCE!!!!

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For a record tying 5th straight Tour de France, American and Austinite Lance Armstrong has won! In
a Race that stretches 2,300 miles in just 21 days many of those days climbing through some of the
steepest mountains on earth, in a race that celebrated it's 100th birthday this year only one
other man has ever one 5 straight tours now there are only two, one a Texan. Lance Armstrong after
suffering two crashes and several close calls, not to mention loosing 15 pounds of his own body
weight of fluids in one day of racing which would have sent most men to the hospital for days,
Lance came fighting back in that Texas style of his to pull victory from the mouth of defeat!

Congratulations to Lance Armstrong!!!

...erm, you wouldn't happen to be a yank, would you? :-)

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...erm, you wouldn't happen to be a yank, would you? :-)

I'd think so...Texan, even! Possibly from Austin.....

Anyway, Big Whoops to Lance. He won a bike ride. (This is the copyright 'stiff British upper lip'
translation of the original post)

Regards,

Pete.

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...erm, you wouldn't happen to be a yank, would you? :-)

I'd think so...Texan, even! Possibly from Austin.....

Anyway, Big Whoops to Lance. He won a bike ride. (This is the copyright 'stiff British upper lip'
translation of the original post)

I didn't see the end .. bah , humbug.

Tell us something we didn't know. You forgot to mention that the only British rider in the race won
the final time trial and if it wasn't for mechanical problems would have won the Prologue.

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For a record tying 5th straight Tour de France, American and Austinite Lance Armstrong has won! In
a Race that stretches 2,300 miles in just 21 days many of those days climbing through some of the
steepest mountains on earth, in a race that celebrated it's 100th birthday this year only one
other man has ever one 5 straight tours now there are only two, one a Texan. Lance Armstrong after
suffering two crashes and several close calls, not to mention loosing 15 pounds of his own body
weight of fluids in one day of racing which would have sent most men to the hospital for days,
Lance came fighting back in that Texas style of his to pull victory from the mouth of defeat!

Congratulations to Lance Armstrong!!!

*J* *H* said:

First off I'm a Texan not a yank, big difference second, uh cycling group and your not excited by
the Tour de France? hum jealous?

If you can't be bothered to get my nationality right and keep adding a country to a capital just to
explain yourself why should anyone outside the US worry about the Mason Dixon line?

As to the rest of your message I was going to ignore but as you see fit to argue.

"For a record tying 5th straight Tour de France, American and Austinite Lance Armstrong has won!"

What is a "record tying"? Either it's a record or it's not, in this case it's not.

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In a Race that stretches 2,300 miles in just 21 days many of those days climbing through some of
the steepest mountains on earth,

Pure hyperbole there are many more mountains steeper than those in France, there are even steeper
mountains in France than used in the race

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in a race that celebrated it's 100th birthday this year only one other man has ever

one

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5 straight tours now there are only two,

No in the a race that celebrated it's 100th birthday this year only one man "one"(sic), the other
didn't enter.

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one a Texan.

Ahhh was that your target audience? Merkin hyberbole has to be rewritten for the rest of the world,
we aren't as gullible.

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Lance Armstrong after suffering two crashes and several close calls,

not

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to mention loosing 15 pounds of his own body weight of fluids in >one

day

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of racing which would have sent most men to the hospital for days,

Most men apart from the other 150 he was racing against you mean?

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Lance came fighting back in that Texas style of his to pull victory from the mouth of defeat!

Errrrr were you watching a different race to me? I can't remember him being anywhere near the "mouth
of defeat!"

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Congratulations to Lance Armstrong!!!

Finally something we can agree on , a pity I had to wade through Texas [censored] to get there!

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*J* *H* said:

First off I'm a Texan not a yank, big difference second, uh cycling group and your not excited
by the Tour de France? hum jealous?

If you can't be bothered to get my nationality right and keep adding a country to a capital just
to explain yourself why should anyone outside the US worry about the Mason Dixon line?

What a load of tosh.

*J* *H* said:

For a record tying 5th straight Tour de France, American and Austinite Lance Armstrong has won! In
a Race that stretches 2,300 miles in just 21 days many of those days climbing through some of the
steepest mountains on earth, in a race that celebrated it's 100th birthday this year only one
other man has ever one 5 straight tours now there are only two, one a Texan. Lance Armstrong after
suffering two crashes and several close calls, not to mention loosing 15 pounds of his own body
weight of fluids in one day of racing which would have sent most men to the hospital for days,
Lance came fighting back in that Texas style of his to pull victory from the mouth of defeat!

And just think how much better Lance could have been had he been lucky enough to have been born a
European and thereby avoided having to carry all that ex-colonial psychological baggage with him ...

(but having seen the concentration on his face going up the final climb of stage 15, I certainly
don't begrudge him his win, Texan or not : well won, Lance!).

** Phil.

This is why I dont post things on news groups cus of the pathetic [censored] who change the postin from
one item to another... This original postin was on about Lance ..it changes to slaggin of a Texan
guy who has the spirit to praise Lance..................

I dont give a monkeys [censored] if a American guy sings and whistles about Lance's win....what ever
the nationality the winner is they deserve all the praise in the world as do ALL the riders to
finish the tour

BUT .. Lance more than anyone !!! have you actually read his book, do you know what he has been
through with his illness , do you know of SOME of the sponsers just thought he was a dead man and
left him as did some of the biggest names in cyclin....

People who just sit and pick at posting and have ago at the guy who wrote them..get a life you sad
gits cus you aint even men enough to clean Lances bike !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

as for Lance..well done your the Best............

As for me..YES im a cyclist but only a ''53'' minute man and im English.....................

You call yourself cyclists at some point

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*J* *H* answer please.

1) What do you see is the big difference (your words) between a native of the State of Texas
(a Texan) and what most people in Britain understand to be a native of the USA (a yank).

2) Jealous. Of what?

3) Is Margaret Griffey a Texan?

Roger

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First off I'm a Texan not a yank, big difference second, uh cycling group and your not excited
by the Tour de France? hum jealous?

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For a record tying 5th straight Tour de France, American and Austinite Lance Armstrong has won!

Yawn. I think we know all of this -- and probably understood more about why he won.

Please restrain the whoopin' and a wialin'.

T

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Tell us something we didn't know. You forgot to mention that the only British rider in the race
won the final time trial and if it wasn't for mechanical problems would have won the Prologue.

I wonder if he's even heard of the real hero of the race who went round with a bust collarbone, came
4th and still won a stage?

Oh -- and perhaps most important to our colonial friend -- is a Yank.

T

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This is why I dont post things on news groups cus of the pathetic [censored]

who

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change the postin from one item to another...

Welcome to the wonderful world of thread drift. A new phenomenon on Usenet. Well, new until the
second post was made way back when anyway ;-)

Keep working on trimming and interleaved quoting.

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Davo said:

This is why I dont post things on news groups cus of the pathetic [censored] who change the postin from
one item to another...

Good,could you continue your habit please?

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This original postin was on about Lance ..it changes to slaggin of a Texan guy who has the spirit
to praise Lance..................

It wasn't about Amstrong at all, it was good old fashioned, inaccurate, jingoistic chestbeating,
aimed at a local audience and ported here.

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I dont give a monkeys [censored] if a American guy sings and whistles about Lance's win....what ever the
nationality the winner is they deserve all the praise in the world as do ALL the riders to finish
the tour

BUT .. Lance more than anyone !!! have you actually read his book,

Yes.

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do you know what he has been through with his illness ,

Yes.

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do you know of SOME of the sponsers just thought he was a dead man and left him as did some of the
biggest names in cyclin....

Yes, and your point is?

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People who just sit and pick at posting and have ago at the guy who wrote them..get a life you sad
gits cus you aint even men enough to clean Lances bike !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And lack of bike cleaning ability means ,what exactly?

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as for Lance..well done your the Best............

Errrr don't you mean equally the best/ The TDF has been won 5 times before you know, or does it only
count if it's a merkin?

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As for me..YES im a cyclist but only a ''53'' minute man and im English.....................

You have my sincere sympathies.

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I agree with the Texan fella, why not support and be proud of a fellow countryman's achievements.

After all I was jumping around when fellow Scot David Millar won the ITT.

I have read Lance's book a fair amount of times now, and it is possibly the best sport/biography
book I have read. Armstrong has to go down as one of the greatest ever athletes in this lifetime.

Regards,

John

(*J* *H*) said:

For a record tying 5th straight Tour de France, American and Austinite Lance Armstrong has won! In
a Race that stretches 2,300 miles in just 21 days many of those days climbing through some of the
steepest mountains on earth, in a race that celebrated it's 100th birthday this year only one other
man has ever one 5 straight tours now there are only two, one a Texan. Lance Armstrong after
suffering two crashes and several close calls, not to mention loosing 15 pounds of his own body
weight of fluids in one day of racing which would have sent most men to the hospital for days,
Lance came fighting back in that Texas style of his to pull victory from the mouth of defeat!

Congratulations to Lance Armstrong!!!

Regards

I agree with the Texan fella, why not support and be proud of a fellow countryman's achievements.

After all I was jumping around when fellow Scot David Millar won the ITT.

I have read Lance's book a fair amount of times now, and it is possibly the best sport/biography
book I have read. Armstrong has to go down as one of the greatest ever athletes in this lifetime.

Regards,

John

(*J* *H*) said:

For a record tying 5th straight Tour de France, American and Austinite Lance Armstrong has won! In
a Race that stretches 2,300 miles in just 21 days many of those days climbing through some of the
steepest mountains on earth, in a race that celebrated it's 100th birthday this year only one other
man has ever one 5 straight tours now there are only two, one a Texan. Lance Armstrong after
suffering two crashes and several close calls, not to mention loosing 15 pounds of his own body
weight of fluids in one day of racing which would have sent most men to the hospital for days,
Lance came fighting back in that Texas style of his to pull victory from the mouth of defeat!

Congratulations to Lance Armstrong!!!

Regards

jeronimo said:

I agree with the Texan fella, why not support and be proud of a fellow countryman's achievements.

After all I was jumping around when fellow Scot David Millar won the ITT.

You mean fello 'Brit' of course ;-)

And he used to ride for an _English_ club.

Get ye back behind your wall ;-)

John B

Tony W said:

I think we know all of this -- and probably understood more about why he won.

Indeed we do. Didn't he win because he completed the course in less time than his competitors? ;-)
This years race is certainly the best I've seen for a while. Armstrong's five wins were far more
exiting to watch than Indurain's. Just IMO, of course.

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Please restrain the whoopin' and a wialin'.

What's the official u.r.c view on hollerin'?

Whatever ... Yee-ha, Lance but my man-of-the-tour prize goes to Tyler
H.

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I agree with the Texan fella, why not support and be proud of a fellow countryman's achievements.

After all I was jumping around when fellow Scot David Millar won the ITT.

I have read Lance's book a fair amount of times now, and it is possibly the best sport/biography
book I have read. Armstrong has to go down as one of the greatest ever athletes in this lifetime.

And one of the most generous as Millar would agree!

JohnB said:

jeronimo said:

I agree with the Texan fella, why not support and be proud of a fellow countryman's achievements.

After all I was jumping around when fellow Scot David Millar won the ITT.

You mean fello 'Brit' of course ;-)

And he used to ride for an _English_ club.

Get ye back behind your wall ;-)

John B

Our wall? I thought it was built to keep Scots out. Or were they Picts back then? :-)
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