Born to be champ?

"Thomas Lund" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Headline from the Danish newspaper Politiken today:
"The formula behind Armstrong's succes isn't chemical, but genetical. He

was

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born to ride a bicycle"

The article is written by Chris MacDonald (American? English?) - a

scientist

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("sport physiologist"?) at the University of Copenhagen's Institute for
Sports. - He has during the TdF written quite a few interesting columns in
the paper. - He is a Directeur Sportif for a womens cycle-team (Team

SATS).

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The article seems convincing to me, rather dry and scientifically written
though with a lot high brow talk about oxygen-kapacity, VO2max-numbers and
stuff.
About the ability to absord oxygen he presents a table with quite a
significant marking for Lance Armstrong.

I don't know if he has got the articles in English, but if you Google him

on

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Danish sites, his mail address is easily found.

I should think you will hear a lot about this in the coming time.

Thomas Lund

A friend of mine has seen detailed tomographic images of LA's interior and
he said it's pretty amazing in there. I don't remember all the technical
terms (he's a doc) but I do recall comments about freakishly large lungs,
and huge main arteries and veins. In other words, I agree that there are
explanations other than drugs.

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"Thomas Lund" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Headline from the Danish newspaper Politiken today:
"The formula behind Armstrong's succes isn't chemical, but genetical. He

was

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born to ride a bicycle"

The article is written by Chris MacDonald (American? English?) - a

scientist

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("sport physiologist"?) at the University of Copenhagen's Institute for
Sports. - He has during the TdF written quite a few interesting columns

in

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the paper. - He is a Directeur Sportif for a womens cycle-team (Team

SATS).

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The article seems convincing to me, rather dry and scientifically

written

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though with a lot high brow talk about oxygen-kapacity, VO2max-numbers

and

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stuff.
About the ability to absord oxygen he presents a table with quite a
significant marking for Lance Armstrong.

I don't know if he has got the articles in English, but if you Google

him

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on

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Danish sites, his mail address is easily found.

I should think you will hear a lot about this in the coming time.

Thomas Lund

A friend of mine has seen detailed tomographic images of LA's interior and
he said it's pretty amazing in there. I don't remember all the technical
terms (he's a doc) but I do recall comments about freakishly large lungs,
and huge main arteries and veins. In other words, I agree that there are
explanations other than drugs.

Yeah, but none of this is new. We have heard this for a long time, long
before Lance even had cancer.

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Yeah, but none of this is new. We have heard this for a long time, long
before Lance even had cancer.

The kid was beating pro triathletes in his teens. Merckx predicted he'd
eventually win the Tour back in 1993 or so.

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Lynn Wallace http://www.xmission.com/~lawall
"We should not march into Baghdad. ... Assigning young soldiers to
a fruitless hunt for a securely entrenched dictator and condemning
them to fight in what would be an unwinnable urban guerilla war, it
could only plunge that part of the world into ever greater
instability." George Bush Sr. in his 1998 book "A World Transformed"

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Chris said:

Yeah, but none of this is new. We have heard this for a long time, long
before Lance even had cancer.

The kid was beating pro triathletes in his teens. Merckx predicted he'd
eventually win the Tour back in 1993 or so.

Another thing that so many people have forgotten is that Merckx was very
close to Lance for many years. I don't remember precisely how it came
together, but Eddy supplied Merckx and his Caloi brand to Motorola I think
for their entire existance. I am now remembering that is goes even further
back to the 7/11 era. Anyway, Eddy usually works closely with teams when he
supplies bikes and was one of the first to help Lance get his position
sorted out on the bike, among other things. Axel was also offered a contract
for several years back when he had just turned pro (maybe in his second or
third season). Eddy would have said that (Tour prediction) but in context,
remember it was about a young kid that had just won at the World's Road Race
at a very young age and also under his wing to some degree. It is also worth
noting that he never said that about his own son even though Axel cracked
the top 10 before Lance did.

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Lynn Wallace http://www.xmission.com/~lawall
"We should not march into Baghdad. ... Assigning young soldiers to
a fruitless hunt for a securely entrenched dictator and condemning
them to fight in what would be an unwinnable urban guerilla war, it
could only plunge that part of the world into ever greater
instability." George Bush Sr. in his 1998 book "A World Transformed"

The world view had changed dramatically since that was written. You are
aware of the attacks on the WTC and Pentagon?

In article <[email hidden]>,

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Chris said:

Yeah, but none of this is new. We have heard this for a long time, long
before Lance even had cancer.

The kid was beating pro triathletes in his teens. Merckx predicted he'd
eventually win the Tour back in 1993 or so.

Another thing that so many people have forgotten is that Merckx was very
close to Lance for many years. I don't remember precisely how it came
together, but Eddy supplied Merckx and his Caloi brand to Motorola I think
for their entire existance. I am now remembering that is goes even further
back to the 7/11 era. Anyway, Eddy usually works closely with teams when he
supplies bikes and was one of the first to help Lance get his position
sorted out on the bike, among other things. Axel was also offered a contract
for several years back when he had just turned pro (maybe in his second or
third season). Eddy would have said that (Tour prediction) but in context,
remember it was about a young kid that had just won at the World's Road Race
at a very young age and also under his wing to some degree. It is also worth
noting that he never said that about his own son even though Axel cracked
the top 10 before Lance did.

I remember that there was some question about whether the bike LA won
Worlds on was actually a Merckx or a rebadged/disguised Litespeed. I know
that those two worked together for a while, but that race was (if I
remember correctly) before that association.

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Lynn Wallace http://www.xmission.com/~lawall
"We should not march into Baghdad. ... Assigning young soldiers to
a fruitless hunt for a securely entrenched dictator and condemning
them to fight in what would be an unwinnable urban guerilla war, it
could only plunge that part of the world into ever greater
instability." George Bush Sr. in his 1998 book "A World Transformed"

The world view had changed dramatically since that was written. You are
aware of the attacks on the WTC and Pentagon?

Neither of which had anything to do with Iraq. Certainly the latter part
of GHWB's statement seems to be proving to be a prescient one.

--
tanx,
Howard

So far, so good, so what?

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