Lance photo in SI

Psycholist said:

The current issue of Sports Illustrated (former NFL player who got
killed in Afghanistan on the cover) has a full- spread photo of Lance
taken during the TT stage of the Tour de Georgia. It's an awesome photo.
Lance looks as lean and mean as I've ever seen him in any photo.
Bob C.

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jim gravity said:

Psycholist said:

The current issue of Sports Illustrated (former NFL player who got
killed in Afghanistan on the cover) has a full- spread photo of

Lance > taken during the TT stage of the Tour de Georgia. It's an
awesome photo. > Lance looks as lean and mean as I've ever seen him
in any photo. > Bob C.

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Ah, nothing like reading my daily dose of wishful thinking from the ever
rabid anti-Lance camp. I can hardly wait until the end of July so I can rub
your nose in it for yet another year.

And, hopefully someone will talk some sense into him so he'll come back in
2005 and get #7, pretty much putting the record out of reach for eternity.

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Psycholist said:

The current issue of Sports Illustrated (former NFL player who got
killed in Afghanistan on the cover) has a full- spread photo of Lance
taken during the TT stage of the Tour de Georgia. It's an awesome

photo.

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Lance looks as lean and mean as I've ever seen him in any photo.
Bob C.

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Psycholist said:

The current issue of Sports Illustrated (former NFL player who got
killed in Afghanistan on the cover) has a full- spread photo of Lance
taken during the TT stage of the Tour de Georgia. It's an awesome

photo.

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Lance looks as lean and mean as I've ever seen him in any photo.
Bob C.

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I said it was a full-page spread ... not a centerfold.

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The current issue of Sports Illustrated (former NFL player who got killed in
Afghanistan on the cover) has a full-spread photo of Lance taken during the
TT stage of the Tour de Georgia. It's an awesome photo. Lance looks as
lean and mean as I've ever seen him in any photo.

Bob C.

Thanks for the heads-up. I rarely get the rag, but will give it a
scan next time I'm in the book shoppe for my cycling mag fix.

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And, hopefully someone will talk some sense into him so he'll come back
in 2005 and get #7, pretty much putting the record out of reach for
eternity.

???

Records, like rules were made to be broken. If Lance does get 7, someone will
eventually break it. Besides, even if he does win 7 in a row, it won't make
him the Greatest Cyclist Ever (TM), so who cares?

- Boyd S.

Boyd Speerschneider said:

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And, hopefully someone will talk some sense into him so he'll come
back in 2005 and get #7, pretty much putting the record out of
reach for eternity.

Records, like rules were made to be broken. If Lance does get 7,
someone will eventually break it. Besides, even if he does win 7 in a
row, it won't make him the Greatest Cyclist Ever (TM), so who cares?

It would stand until bio-engineered gene-spliced mutants make all
sporting events moot.

Ray

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And, hopefully someone will talk some sense into him so he'll come back
in 2005 and get #7, pretty much putting the record out of reach for
eternity.

???

Records, like rules were made to be broken. If Lance does get 7, someone

will

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eventually break it. Besides, even if he does win 7 in a row, it won't

make

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him the Greatest Cyclist Ever (TM), so who cares?

- Boyd S.

No way LANCE HATER! He is already the GREATEST ever! Just wait, once he hits
7 Tours, he will start doing Giro Vuelta doubles during the same seasons
that he breaks the rest of the records (for eternity)!

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And, hopefully someone will talk some sense into him so he'll come back
in 2005 and get #7, pretty much putting the record out of reach for
eternity.

???

Records, like rules were made to be broken. If Lance does get 7, someone will
eventually break it. Besides, even if he does win 7 in a row, it won't make
him the Greatest Cyclist Ever (TM), so who cares?

- Boyd S.

Here's my thinking on 6 or 7: If Lance does it, well, wow! It'll be
awesome. However, looking back on the specialization of tour victors,
25 of the past 47 Tours have been won by only 5 riders. It's exciting
to see a new challenger win the race. It's exciting to see a the same
rider defend. At some point if the reigning champion closes in on an
illustrius record, which can be exciting (the 2003 Tour certainly met
that test for whatever reasons.) Consider being a fan, though of
Belgian, French, Spanish, Italian, German, or other countries cycling.
It's an amazing feat to you, but it probably gets a bit monotonous
watching the same rider win. Consider how monotonous it would be to
see in a few years time another incredible talent arrive and win 7 or
8 tours. It's certainly a possibility.

While I think it would be great for Lance to win a 6th Tour, I do feel
the reduced turnover of Tour champions has increased the emphasis on
the other classifications (KOM, Points) and stage victories. Seeing
another Eddy Merckx arrive would undoubtably be exciting for the first
couple years, but after that, it would probably be less interesting.

Lastly, what Greg did for drumming up more than die-hard cycling fan
interest in the USA, Lance has extended. How would the general US
attention span for things cycling related survive the next non-US
dominator?

As for booing Lance for being so successful, not me, I'd love to see
#6 for a variety of rationale, but I wonder about those who do want to
see Lance lose for being too successful.