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In a message dated 7/8/2003 6:09:54 PM Eastern Standard Time, Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Speaking of sports, anyone else following the Tour de France? �If anyone
>who knows more about cycling than I do (which isn't very much, aside
>from having read Lance Armstrong's _It's Not About the Bike_ and knowing
>where his house near Lake Austin is and thinking he's just incredible)
>and would like to give me analyses off-list (unless there's a general
>clamor for it to be on-list), I'd be keenly interested. �:)
I'm following it, but it's way too early to really get into it. Lance Armstrong is currently in 12th place, 19 seconds behind the leader, but this race doesn't really start to mean anything until it moves up into the mountains, which is where Armstrong usually leaves his competition minutes behind, not seconds. They say in American team sports that a playoff series doesn't really begin until the home team loses a game; the last few years, the Tour De France doesn't mean a thing until, if ever, Lance Armstrong is beaten in the mountains.
I'm cheering for Lance, but for some reason I have a feeling that this isn't going to be his year. Maybe part of it was I read a brief interview with him after the Prologue (a time trial), in which he said things didn't feel right or something of the sort. I had thought part of his domination in previous years wasn't just due to his strong mountain stages, but also his time trial stages. Maybe another part of it is that the press seems to think he's almost a lock to win it again.
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