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July 21, 2004Lance Kicks Alpe d'Huez's Ass!By Andrew DobbsAustin represents, baby! Alpe d'Huez is the toughest route in all of the Tour de France- 9.6 miles of hairpin turns, most named for fallen riders of the past. It rises sharply from the ground, the grade averaging almost 10%. For the first time this year the Tour made the trail an individual time trial each of the riders leaving the post one at a time, Armstrong (the yellow jersey holder) left last. His nearest opponent, Italian Ivan Basso left 2 minutes before him and Armstrong went so fast he passed him up and more than doubled his previous lead, all but locking up a record 6th victory. For those of you not in Austin its hard to understand the love this town has for its favorite son. Every business has a "Go Lance" sign, the buses run "Go Lance" on their marquees. Lance Armstrong owns this town so it is exciting to see him doing so well. Congrats Lance, here's to 6th in a row! Posted by Andrew Dobbs at July 21, 2004 11:24 AM | TrackBack
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Thanks for such a nice comment for one of President Bush's supporters. Go Lance! Posted by: peter at July 21, 2004 11:46 AMYeah yeah yeah, I thought of that. I don't cheer for his politics, I cheer for the fact that he kicks ass and he's from Austin. Posted by: Andrew D at July 21, 2004 12:00 PMLeave it to a Bush supporter to politicize a matter that has no American domestic political content whatsoever. Lance could support (shudder) Lyndon LaRouche and I'd still cheer him on. Go Lance! Posted by: Steve Bates at July 21, 2004 03:34 PMHe supports Bush! An even better reason to cheer for Armstrong! Vive Le Lance! Posted by: carrie at July 21, 2004 04:24 PMI can't for the life of me figure out what Bush has to do with Armstrong winning the Tour. If we measured candidates by the athletic prowess of their supporters . . . well, we wouldn't, would we? 'Cause that would be pretty much stupid. I'm no Bush supporter, but I don't give a pig's fart who Lance votes for. I'm still glad to see him performing so well. Posted by: jeremy at July 21, 2004 05:16 PMIf we measured candidates by the athletic prowess of their supporters ... Or athletes by their political views... I'm with Jeremy on this one. I just don't get it. Politics has nothing to do with Lance. And the notion of cheering a hometown hero in an international event, not because he's one of the great cyclists of our age, but because he's a Republican, is inconceivable to me. If I were a Republican (which I'm not), I'd be embarrassed to admit that I cared what Lance's politics are. Courage, grit, determination, strength and skill... those are human ideals and American ideals, not merely Republican ideals, and Lance displays all of them. What have we come to, that some of us have to politicize outstanding athletic accomplishment? Fortunately, others of us don't feel the need to do so. Go Lance! Posted by: Steve Bates at July 22, 2004 01:31 PM
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