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JerkStrongHow Lance Armstrong is like Sarah Palin.
Posted Tuesday, July 7, 2009, at 6:06 PM ETNeal Pollack described how Lance Armstrong ruined his gym. In 2007, Bill Gifford penned a reader's guide to a pair of books about Lance Armstrong and Floyd Landis. Gifford also made the case for making the Tour de France less boring. Daniel Engber explained how cycling teams work.
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Why someone who participates in a pretty anonymous sport like cycling evokes such heated responses from sportswriters is baffling. Any recognition that cycling has in America today is the work of people like Lance and his original trainer, Chris Carmichael, and to a lesser extent the younger cyclists like Levi Leipheimer and Floyd Landis. Lance could have sat in retirement, enjoying the ladies and endorsements, and ignoring cancer research altogether, but he chose to come back, actually train (unlike some other 'returning' athletes), and compete at an elite level.
Lance is inspiring because he isn't afraid to stare down disease and death. We all have demons, and some of us are inspired by his willingness and his enthusiasm to fund and stump for cancer research.
Yeah, he's weird, a little nuts, probably OCD, horny as hell, and crazy and bombastic for thinking that Contador should give him any room in this year's tour. I think that cancer should fear him.
-- crucker
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I can tell you that most of us got tired of Armstrong a long time ago. He's nothing but a good old-fashioned, garden variety prick.
-- Dr. T
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