Why do you call people dumbasses if you don't take your opinions and project them onto everyone
else. "Kurgan Gringioni" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:The deep thinker said:The French press gave him the orange award this year.
Kurgan; you really are a moron aren't you? You are also a very shallow thinker. Here is your
reasoning broken down so even you can understand
it...
"gee dude.... duhhhhh, the French gave Lance a basket of oranges.... duhhhh.... DUDE!... That
must mean everyone loves Lance!"
No. Unlike you I don't take my own opinions and project them onto
everyone
Quoted message said:else.
In the previous post, you wrote:
"Actually, I think more cycling fans dislike LA than like him"
which is refuted by:
nytimes.com29tour.htmlOpen ↗
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French Call Armstrong Class Act By SAMUEL ABT
PARIS, July 28 - In a little-noticed ceremony, the photographers who cover the Tour de France
awarded their Prix Orange to Lance Armstrong last week, honoring him as the most cooperative
rider. Two years ago, they gave him
the
Quoted message said:Prix Citron, or Lemon Prize, an award for the opposite behavior.
The photographers' shift may have little meaning beyond Armstrong's willingness to smile more
often for the camera. In a way, though, it
mirrors
Quoted message said:a change in the attitude of French spectators toward Armstrong, who has
won
Quoted message said:the last five Tours.
He earned widespread respect when he made a comeback from cancer and won
the
Quoted message said:Tour in 1999. There was coolness toward Armstrong when he dominated the
next
Quoted message said:two races - the French tend to admire the man in second place in most situations - and now there
appears to be renewed admiration.
He now speaks a comprehensible French during television interviews,
mending
Quoted message said:many a Gallic heart. And his autobiography, detailing his fight against a cancer that spread to
his brain and lungs, was a best-seller in France, enabling readers to know him as a person, not
merely as a great champion.
At a meeting this morning at the Crillon Hotel, Armstrong, looking weary
but
Quoted message said:sounding gracious, said, "It was a real honor to win the Tour de France as
a
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He left the lectern to loud applause from the mainly French crowd. So it went throughout the Tour:
cheers for Armstrong at the sign-in for each
daily
Quoted message said:stage, an abundance of posters supporting him in French and an absence of the jeers he had drawn
occasionally in previous years.
When he was asked a few days ago for his reaction to the horde of fans
with
Quoted message said:United States flags along the route, Armstrong said: "Many times you get next to them and it's a
French person. It's strange, but many times it happens. I can't complain about the kind of support
it is. It's much appreciated.''
Then he spoke, as he often did before the Tour, about the need to repair French-American
relations, which have been strained by the war in Iraq.
During the three-week race, fans voiced appreciation for Armstrong's skill and nearly unanimous
respect for him. Again and again, people along the
side
Quoted message said:of the Tour's many roads described him as "un grand monsieur,'' which roughly translates to "a
class act.''
That phrase first popped up from a spectator at the first stage, on July
6.
Quoted message said:After a crash left Armstrong and dozens of other riders sprawled on the road, a fan said he hoped
Armstrong had not been hurt so badly that he
would
Quoted message said:have to quit the race. "Without him, the Tour loses much of its
interest,''
Quoted message said:he said. Then he described Armstrong as "un grand monsieur.''
The phrase was repeated the next week by a police officer on duty in the Alps. Then there was a
spectator, French despite the Washington Redskins
cap
Quoted message said:on his head, during the first individual time trial on July 18. The spectator and a friend
described themselves as "not fans of cycling, but fans of the Tour de France and even fans of
Armstrong.'' Farther down the road, a counterman in a sandwich shop said: "I stopped following the
sport because of all the drugs. When Armstrong began winning, I came back, since
I
Quoted message said:can't believe anybody who had cancer would take no matter what drugs. He's revived the sport.''
And, of course, the counterman called Armstrong "un grand monsieur.''
In 1993, when Armstrong was 21 and racing in his first Tour de France, he was relaxing out of
uniform. Because of his youth and inexperience, his team, Motorola, had him withdraw about
halfway through the race. Armstrong mused about Miguel Indurain of Spain, who was in the process
of winning
the
Quoted message said:third of five successive Tours.
"Indurain, I admire him as much as a person as a bike rider,'' Armstrong said. "He's a lord:
gracious, generous, cool, always in control. He's the kind of guy I'd like to grow up to be.''
No doubt about it - in the judgment of the French and nearly everyone
else,
Quoted message said:he has.
