July 20, 2004
Tour de Lance
My boy, my hero, hung back today and let 5 breaks pass him by, then, 9th of 10 in the lead group with 1 km to go, he put the whipping on the Eurotrash at the top of the mountain. Lance wears the maillot jaune, and will not relinquish it.
Ullrich is toast. Basso is still a threat a minute and a half back (that's him in back), but Armstong saved a lot of energy today. He saved himself to deliver a serious ass stomping on the L'Alpe d'Huez time trial tomorrow. It will look like a fucking Stalin show trial with all those casualties. But in a good way.
I've always said an American, especially a Texan, with one nut can beat a Frenchman with two. Or five, for that matter.
Lance can still falter, and lose. It happens. He's been extremely lucky crash-wise, and there are plenty of folks who would assist that event. But my take is the Euros love a champion, even an American one, and a six time Tour winner is the ultimate God of Sport. Lance will be unmolested. He will take his 6th.
Vive Lance.
P.S. Fuck Greg Lemond for casting aspersions on Lance about the doping. Pure jealousy. Lance Armstrong is the most drug-tested athlete in history, and has never failed a drug test. He trains in France, the Robben Island prison of drug-testing, and is always the "random" selection at the end of every stage. Now the naysayers are claiming his chemo made him stronger. Got that? His chemotherapy made him stronger.
THAT is pathetic. Ride strong, my man. Ride strong.