Lance. Are you a lover, hater or neutral?

[dan_bo]

poor guy can't fart without someone critisising him I don't know how he can cope with such intense media scrutiny every second whilst he is trying to compete competively in the hardest race in the world with a team that clearly isn't supporting him

He copes because, every farty second his fizzog is on the telly, his value rises.

 

[dan_bo]

The poor bastard.

 

[Crankarm]

I like him. I've seen him racing and talking when interviewed on TV, I've read his books. That's as far as it goes, anything more would be creepy, stalking territory and enough grounds for a restraining order.

 

[dan_bo]

I quite like him as well, a bit like I like Richard Feynmann, but he had a better heart.

 

[SimonRoberts0204]

Wow, a Richard Feynmann/Lance Armstrong comparison, what a rarity.

Armstrong would just about win on a bike, but Feynmann would kick Lances arse at Particle physics.....

 

[kevin_cambs_uk]

I have been a big fan, maybe because of what he went thru, but in the eighties I was a big fan of LeMond.

Glad he is back in the biking, certainly got me out of retirement and back on 2 wheels.

Does a hell of a lot for the cancer charity, can't think of any other sportsman who has done so much.

 

[Noodley]

Does a hell of a lot for the cancer charity, can't think of any other sportsman who has done so much.

...neither can he.

 

[asterix]

I have been a big fan, maybe because of what he went thru, but in the eighties I was a big fan of LeMond.

Glad he is back in the biking, certainly got me out of retirement and back on 2 wheels.

Does a hell of a lot for the cancer charity, can't think of any other sportsman who has done so much.

Let's not be forgetting Jane Tomlinson, eh?

Though terminally-ill with cancer, Jane Tomlinson raised more than £1.5 million for charity by running in three London Marathons, several triathlons and The Great North Run.
Together with her brother she also cycled from John O'Groats to Land's End and from Rome to Leeds.

She was also disappointed that a lack of interest from the US media meant she only raised £100,000, well short of her expectations.

 

[yenrod]

Lance Armstrong (and many like him) has been places not many of us have or will face.

...that has to deem respect.

 

[Panter]

Did bloody well in the Tour didn't he

Mind you, he had a face like thunder on that podium
I suspect that his understanding of race placings goes 1st, not 1st, not 1st, not 1st..........

 

[Chuffy]

Lance Armstrong (and many like him) has been places not many of us have or will face.

...that has to deem respect.

I've been to Ilfracombe. Have you?

 

[Noodley]

Lance Armstrong (and many like him) has been places not many of us have or will face.

...that has to deem respect.

Kristin?
Sharon?
or
Anna?

 

[Noodley]

My final word(s) on him:

Ungracious bairny cock

 

[Blue]

I think the LA detractors on this forum are much more up their own arses than LA, or anyone else.

Anyone who makes 3rd on the Tour deserves respect. To make 3rd at this stage of his life gives a good two fingers to the critics.

 

[mangaman]

Not a real Lance fan myself - but great to to see Contador win.

IMHO the best three week stage racer we've seen since Mercz (Lance only ever one tour - Alberto's won all 3 )

Still a great ride by a 38 year old to finish 3rd though - although I'm still amazed by Brad and Cav's berformenses. The Uk were the top country in the tour !!!!!!