Pre-Lance

[Noodley]

Okay, I started this on another thread with a tongue-in-cheek reply to kennykool about pro cycling pre-Lance but it sounds like a good idea for a thread on it's own. So what would you add to the advice so far? NO restrictions to Le Tour, but as kennykool obviously needs some education I suppose it seems natural to start with it.

1) Le Tour did not start when Lance won.
2) The greatest ever finish in Le Tour was when it was won by another American, Greg LeMond in 1989, winning it by 8 seconds from Frenchman Laurent Fignon, on the last day, a time trial ending on the Champs Elysee. I watched it - it was magnificent - it still is magnificent.


Can I add 3?

3) Robert Millar.

 

[Dave5N]

Drama? ( I don't want to be tasteless)

Simpson on Ventoux

 

[Dave5N]

Lance dropping Ullrich on Luz Ardiden

 

[Dave5N]

Abdoujapourov (sp?) on Champs Elysee

 

[Dave5N]

Boardman's Prologues

 

[Dave5N]

Cav last year

 

[Dave5N]

Cav winning the green jersey

 

[Dave5N]

OOps!. The misuus has warned me about that.

 

[Noodley]

Lance dropping Ullrich on Luz Ardiden

Would that be pre-Lance?

Although the others are good - if only you had numbered them

get thee editing....

 

[Dave5N]

Education? Why Millar lost the Vuelta in '85

 

[Dave5N]

Graeme Obree and the meaning of heroism

 

[Dave5N]

Hoy and the meaning of dedication

 

[kennykool]

I have read a few books on the history of the tour which lead me into liking Marco Pantani.....then I read "the Death of Marco Pantani"

Still like him!!!

Lemond time trial I have also seen now.....very exciting!

Obree.....awsome!

 

[wafflycat]

Beryl Burton. She could beat the men too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beryl_Burton

A true champion

 

[Chuffy]

Eugene Christophe carrying a broken bike down a mountain and fixing his broken fork at a forge.

Now that man deserves to be called a hero.