Armstrong INSULTS Bernard Hinault!!

[Benjamin Weiner]

[email protected] (Ilan Vardi) wrote:
> "Carl Sundquist" <[email protected]> wrote:

> > So how does Armstrong account for Rasmussen and other Dutch climbers?

> If you're going there, you might as well ask how does Armstrong account
> for Armstrong, given Texas topography.

Well, they've got enough hills to drop Jason Waddell.

LANCE's prickliness leads people to underrate his occasional
flashes of a sense of humor.

 

[Carl Sundquist]

"Darrell Criswell" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Actuallly not too far from Austin there are many killer hills, very
> difficult cycling.
>

But they are *hills*, not *climbs*. I doubt there is an official definition
of a climb, but it should take at least 10 minutes at race pace to get from
the bottom to the top.

 

[Carl Sundquist]

"Bob in CT" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> No, Armstrong just said that he didn't know why Hinault was a great
> climber when he was from a city near the flats. He said that Hinault must
> of gone on training camps (into the mountains). I didn't think it was
> arrogant or an insult.
>

Unlike the Modern Era (TM), Hinault probably didn't spend more than two
weeks per year in training camps.

He actually raced his bike all season long.

 

[Bob in CT]

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 07:21:37 -0500, Carl Sundquist
<[email protected]> wrote:

>
> "Bob in CT" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>> No, Armstrong just said that he didn't know why Hinault was a great
>> climber when he was from a city near the flats. He said that Hinault
>> must
>> of gone on training camps (into the mountains). I didn't think it was
>> arrogant or an insult.
>>
>
> Unlike the Modern Era (TM), Hinault probably didn't spend more than two
> weeks per year in training camps.
>
> He actually raced his bike all season long.
>
>

Which I also think is better -- I'd like to see more entry of good racers
into more races.

--
Bob in CT
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[Ilan Vardi]

"Doug Kwbzxqltha" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> Armstrong is an arrogant *******, everyone in Austin knows this.

Arrogant, maybe. *******, true, at least in the formal sense.

-ilan

 

[Clovis Lark]

Ilan Vardi <[email protected]> wrote:
> "Doug Kwbzxqltha" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
>> Armstrong is an arrogant *******, everyone in Austin knows this.

> Arrogant, maybe. *******, true, at least in the formal sense.

Ralph Bellamy:
"You... You *******"

Lee Marvin (cooly blowing smoke):
"That, my friend, is an accident of birth. You, on the other hand, are a
selfmade man."

[Final line of The Professionals]


> -ilan