Jack Hollis said:I don't know if anyone else caught Lance on CR for a full hour
interview.
I think Lance was able to settle the argument about him being the best
of all time when he said that he was not. It was also clear that he
though that the tile belongs to Merckx as if there was ever any doubt
about that.
He also said that being the best of all time was never his goal. He
said he didn't race in the other classics because he felt his work to
fight cancer and help cancer patients was more important.
Interesting interview.
I caught it. It was interesting - LA was very animated and candid. Though
he said he looked forward to his interviews with Charlie, Rose came across
as somewhat pushy and almost cloying at times.
On Gov. of Texas, Lance said 'gee, to be the governor would mean being on
the road and away from his kids...exactly the reason he retired from
professional cycling'.
Uh, really can't recall anything substantial that he said about cycling
aside from explaining a couple simple concepts behind racing the Tour. One
thing he tried to say was that one reason he didn't race more was
-partially- due to his other committments, visiting patients and soforth.
Rose immediately seemed to try and assume that if not for these
committments LA would have and could have done the other major Tours.
Lance, trying to be agreeable had to then step back and explain it wasn't
-just- the committments, it was other things, but didn't go on to explain
he really had to, preferred to, focus on the Tour, iirc.
Could have been a bit more interesting if Rose had done some more homework
and picked a few better questions, but oh well....
jj
