Lance is doing TDF 2009!!!

[Aggie_Ama]

Well one good thing, I live in Austin and they actually care when Lance rides, it was all oveer the local media today. The rest of the time I just have to choke on as much longhorn stuff as they can find. Last year the entire month of July was spent with the local paper shoveling fluff about the college football practice. Give me yellow all over the paper over burnt orange.

[Trigress]

I'm most dreadfully sorry to hear that Armstrong couldn't keep out, but has to pester not only one grand tour but two next year.

I got away with only two Armstrong tours, and was thrilled to see him go, the tours having been so much more exciting after he left. He is by far the dullest rider close to the podium, and just as I was getting used to having an interesting TdF to look forward to he's back. >Sigh<

I suppose I'd better find another mountain to climb during the summer.

[katluvr]

I DID/DO like watching Lance. I am a bit torn...because all the hype. But I am impressed by him. Yeah, he is egotistical...but I think a lot of really good professional atheletes are...they have to be...they have to think they are the best and will win all the time. He just comes off a bit more than most.
Maybe I am gullible--that he is and has always been clean. I had hoped when he left pro biking we would see him go back to Tri's and I did like seeing him do marathons. If I have his potential and money....I would do many of the same things.
I don't pay any attention to who or what he is dating.
I am excited that he will do more than just the TDF. And it does add an interesting mix/twist to all the other competitors on the team..Contador, Levi...makes you wonder what will happen.
I just like watching the racing....it is such a let down when the 3 weeks of the tour is done and I don't have that to look forward each day!
K