27 July 2003Sports
Lance wins Fifth!

Lance
He wasn't at the top of his game. He was sick. He crashed several times. He had tremendous cyclists breathing down his neck all the way to Paris. Yet Lance Armstrong pervailed to win the Tour. Again.

He joins only four other riders - Jacques Anquetil, Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault and Miguel Indurain - as champions who have won the Tour five times. Only he and Indurain have managed 5 consecutive wins.

It's a truly incredible feat for the a man once stricken down with cancer.

How do you measure greatness? Lance Armstrong is good yard stick.

Links:

New York Times
Velo News
BBC Sport

Posted by andrew at July 27, 2003 09:56 PM


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