On 11/18/2004 09:32 PM, in article [email hidden],
psycholist said:
"Philip W. Moore, Jr." <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:Confession...I'm too slow to get the medicine dropper reference and hope
that isn't a doping accusation. Please tell me how slow I am.
Same here. I don't quite follow, either. Also, I thought Eddy and Lance
were buds. I know they had a brief falling-out when Eddy didn't like Lance
attacking Axel's lead at Amstel or Liege or one of those a couple years
back. But I thought they got beyond that.
Perhaps if you read the entire article (or even the sentence which
immediately preceded what Charles posted):
Despite the historical accomplishment of six straight Tours by Armstrong,
this hasn't convinced old school Euros like Eddy Merckx and Francesco Moser.
Although they are old friends, Eddy has never minced words when evaluating
Armstrong's approach to racing. "Armstrong is a cannibal, but only at the
Tour," said the man nicknamed The Cannibal for his ferocious appetite for
victory. "If I raced with a medicine dropper like him, I'd have won the Tour
for at least twenty years. I've always criticised Lance because he gives
little back to cycling."
I see the comments from Merckx (at least) as being more nostalgic and
lamenting of the way things have changed than bitter. He criticizes Lance's
approach because he wishes Armstrong raced with an attitude more like his
own ...
Moser's comments, on the other hand, are just spiteful.
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