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Speaking as an ex bike racer and a cycling fan, I never really liked . I was always an Eddy Merckx man. I admired how he would begin his season in the mud and rain of the early Spring classics, win them, and still go on to win the Giro d the Tour de France, and even in 1974 the World Championship.
To me, that how you race a bike. You get out in the rain and you suffer and you go the whole way. I always found something kind of prima donna ish about the way Lance would concentrate on only the most celebrated races, leaving gritty unpleasantries lipatagonia fiona boots reviews2ke Paris Roubaix to cycling working class. That said, however, Lance was good. In the years of his activity, in facpatagonia fiona boots reviewst, he was the best. And he won the Tour de France seven times.
The above statement, as of yesterday, is no longer technically true. On Monday, the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) professional cycling governing body declared that has never won the Tour. In accordance with the findings of the United States Anti Doping Agency, which has ruled that Armstrong took performance enhancing drugs throughout his professional career, the UCI patagonia fiona boots reviews0has banned from cycling for life, and stripped him of his professional titles. According to all official histories including personal Twitter account the Texan cyclist has never won the Tour de France. But he has.
I am not a defender of doping. I been too close to it all for that. I have known the 17 year old guys who were hustled into vans and injected by shady doctors who stayed up all night shivering and pissing the bed with God knows what in their veins.
I know that it is not hugely uncommon for low level pros to copatagonia hiking boots new balancellapse in amphetamine induced cardiac arrest after competing for 10patagonia luxury hotels0 euro sprints in fairground races outside places like Delft. This type of thing is grotesque, is pernicious and is hugely more toxic on its crude, outer fringes than it was for pamperpatagonia fiona boots reviews1ed pros like , and I hope it will one day disappear. But Lance still won the Tourpatagonia better sweater green women seven times.
European cycling is not the gentrified, North Face clad sport that it is over here. It big money, and it a way off of the farm or the construction site for strong patagonia discount code expressyoung guys named Oskar and Philippe and Ernst. At its highest levels, traveling from these muddy cobblestones to those icy mountain passes, six hours on the bike every day, it no fun at all. It a hyper competitive world of wiry, improbable, strung out greyhounds, and it druggy as hell.
Five time Tour winner Jacpatagonia everlong review digital camerasques Anquetil (whose records still stand) once debated a government minister on the subject opatagonia everlong review my professorf doping. On live television, he told his stunned opponent that a fool would believe that one could do Paris Roubaix on just water. This is how cycling has mostly been, and there was a tacit acceptance of it. When French President Charles de Gaulle was asked about Anquetil unrepentant drug taking, he respatagonia guide jacket blackponded Doping? What doping? Did he or did he not make them play La Marseilpatagonia fiona boots reviews3laise abroad?
This is why I think it still acceptable, and it more accurate, to say that won the Tour seven times. In my opinion, you would have to be a fool to believe that teammate of Floyd Landis, patient of convicted drug trafficker Michele Ferrari did his Tours just water. He doped. So did the guys he beat. Sure, the higher up guys got EPO and blood doping, and the workpatagonia guide pants 2 belting class, the domestiques, probably got cheap crank and testosterone but there were drugs everywhere. The Tour is big business, and if you want to ride in it, you do what your team says.
