Cycling legend Lance Armstrong takes cancer fundraiser to Vancouver

[Jason Spaceman]

From the article:
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VANCOUVER - Hundreds of cyclists turned up Sunday morning at Thunderbird
Stadium on the University of B.C. campus to get a glimpse of cycling legend
Lance Armstrong and to help raise money to fight cancer.

Armstrong and the cyclists were taking part in the second day of the two-day
Tour of Courage, which is organized by the B.C. Cancer Foundation. . . .

.. . .He declined to take any questions regarding the decision a few days ago
in which an arbitration panel stripped Floyd Landis of his 2006 Tour de
France title because it said Landis used synthetic testosterone.

Armstrong, the seven-time Tour De France champion and a cancer survivor, was
joined at the U-B-C event by B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell, and Sindi
Hawkins, the chairperson of the event and the MLA for Kelowna-Mission.
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Read it at http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2007/09/22/4518582-cp.html



No word on whether Gordon Campbell was wearing a Livedrunk bracelet -->
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Campbell#Conviction_for_Driving_Under_the_Influence_of_Alcohol








J. Spaceman

 

[Mike Jacoubowsky]

Back in the day, wasn't it pretty much a requirement that you be dead before
you could be a legend?

--Mike Jacoubowsky
Chain Reaction Bicycles
www.ChainReaction.com
Redwood City & Los Altos, CA USA

 

[Carl Sundquist]

"Mike Jacoubowsky" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Back in the day, wasn't it pretty much a requirement that you be dead
> before you could be a legend?
>

In his own way, Kunich is a legend.

 

[Frank Drackman]

"Jason Spaceman" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> From the article:
> -------------------------------------------------------
> VANCOUVER - Hundreds of cyclists turned up Sunday morning at Thunderbird
> Stadium on the University of B.C. campus to get a glimpse of cycling
> legend
> Lance Armstrong and to help raise money to fight cancer.
>
> Armstrong and the cyclists were taking part in the second day of the
> two-day
> Tour of Courage, which is organized by the B.C. Cancer Foundation. . . .
>
> . . .He declined to take any questions regarding the decision a few days
> ago
> in which an arbitration panel stripped Floyd Landis of his 2006 Tour de
> France title because it said Landis used synthetic testosterone.
>
> Armstrong, the seven-time Tour De France champion and a cancer survivor,
> was
> joined at the U-B-C event by B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell, and Sindi
> Hawkins, the chairperson of the event and the MLA for Kelowna-Mission.
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>

Did you lock up all of the 5' 7" blonde women before he arrived?

 

[Ryan Cousineau]

In article <[email protected]>,
"Mike Jacoubowsky" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Back in the day, wasn't it pretty much a requirement that you be dead before
> you could be a legend?

I think it would be very hard to argue against the idea that, for
example, Merckx the elder, LANCE, and Indurain are all living legends.

--
Ryan Cousineau [email protected] http://www.wiredcola.com/
"I don't want kids who are thinking about going into mathematics
to think that they have to take drugs to succeed." -Paul Erdos

 

[Donald Munro]

Carl Sundquist wrote:
> In his own way, Kunich is a legend.

Famous is to notorious as legend is to ...

[Multiple answers selections go here]

 

[Qui si parla Campagnolo-www.vecchios.com]

On Sep 24, 6:32 pm, "Mike Jacoubowsky" <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Back in the day, wasn't it pretty much a requirement that you be dead before
> you could be a legend?
>
> --Mike Jacoubowsky
> Chain Reaction Bicycleswww.ChainReaction.com
> Redwood City & Los Altos, CA USA

No, the only genuine cycling legend lives in Brussels and his name is
Eddy...

 

[Qui si parla Campagnolo-www.vecchios.com]

On Sep 24, 10:25 pm, Ryan Cousineau <[email protected]> wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>,
> "Mike Jacoubowsky" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Back in the day, wasn't it pretty much a requirement that you be dead before
> > you could be a legend?
>
> I think it would be very hard to argue against the idea that, for
> example, Merckx the elder, LANCE, and Indurain are all living legends.

TdF legends for Indurain and Lance..why not Hinault? He won much more
than Indurain, just ****** in Greg's Wheaties. Eddy is the only
'cycling' legend alive today.
>
> --
> Ryan Cousineau [email protected]://www.wiredcola.com/
> "I don't want kids who are thinking about going into mathematics
> to think that they have to take drugs to succeed." -Paul Erdos

 

[Mike Jacoubowsky]

>> Back in the day, wasn't it pretty much a requirement that you be dead
>> before
>> you could be a legend?
>
> I think it would be very hard to argue against the idea that, for
> example, Merckx the elder, LANCE, and Indurain are all living legends.

I think you put your finger on it, albeit without intending to. We used to
refer to "living legends" vs plain old ordinary dead ones. There was an
acceptance that legends were typically dead or at least very old before
being worthy of the title. To call someone a legend while living was the
exception, not the rule, and thus called out as a "living" legend.

You don't see the preface ("living") applied much anymore.

--Mike Jacoubowsky
Chain Reaction Bicycles
www.ChainReaction.com
Redwood City & Los Altos, CA USA


"Ryan Cousineau" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> In article <[email protected]>,
> "Mike Jacoubowsky" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Back in the day, wasn't it pretty much a requirement that you be dead
>> before
>> you could be a legend?
>
> I think it would be very hard to argue against the idea that, for
> example, Merckx the elder, LANCE, and Indurain are all living legends.
>
> --
> Ryan Cousineau [email protected] http://www.wiredcola.com/
> "I don't want kids who are thinking about going into mathematics
> to think that they have to take drugs to succeed." -Paul Erdos

 

[William Asher]

Mike Jacoubowsky wrote:

>
> I think you put your finger on it, albeit without intending to. We
> used to refer to "living legends" vs plain old ordinary dead ones.
> There was an acceptance that legends were typically dead or at least
> very old before being worthy of the title. To call someone a legend
> while living was the exception, not the rule, and thus called out as a
> "living" legend.
>
> You don't see the preface ("living") applied much anymore.

It's been supplanted by the asterisk following the name.

--
Bill Asher

 

[Ryan Cousineau]

In article <[email protected]>,
"Frank Drackman" <[email protected]> wrote:

> "Jason Spaceman" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > From the article:
> > -------------------------------------------------------
> > VANCOUVER - Hundreds of cyclists turned up Sunday morning at Thunderbird
> > Stadium on the University of B.C. campus to get a glimpse of cycling
> > legend
> > Lance Armstrong and to help raise money to fight cancer.
> >
> > Armstrong and the cyclists were taking part in the second day of the
> > two-day
> > Tour of Courage, which is organized by the B.C. Cancer Foundation. . . .

> Did you lock up all of the 5' 7" blonde women before he arrived?

Are you kidding? We're hoping he'll marry a local girl and settle down.
Then we can recruit him as the anchor of our Cat 1/2 team.

We're working on Axel,

--
Ryan Cousineau [email protected] http://www.wiredcola.com/
"I don't want kids who are thinking about going into mathematics
to think that they have to take drugs to succeed." -Paul Erdos

 

[Ryan Cousineau]

In article <[email protected]>,
"Qui si parla Campagnolo-www.vecchios.com" <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sep 24, 10:25 pm, Ryan Cousineau <[email protected]> wrote:
> > In article <[email protected]>,
> > "Mike Jacoubowsky" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > Back in the day, wasn't it pretty much a requirement that you be dead
> > > before
> > > you could be a legend?
> >
> > I think it would be very hard to argue against the idea that, for
> > example, Merckx the elder, LANCE, and Indurain are all living legends.
>
> TdF legends for Indurain and Lance..why not Hinault? He won much more
> than Indurain, just ****** in Greg's Wheaties. Eddy is the only
> 'cycling' legend alive today.

Dumbass: "...for example..." means that the list was by no means
exclusive.

Hinault is a very good example, as would be a large number of Classics
specialists I haven't mentioned, and maybe even some of the Spanish
angels that get so little publicity on this side of the water.

--
Ryan Cousineau [email protected] http://www.wiredcola.com/
"I don't want kids who are thinking about going into mathematics
to think that they have to take drugs to succeed." -Paul Erdos

 

[Ryan Cousineau]

> "Ryan Cousineau" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > In article <[email protected]>,
> > "Mike Jacoubowsky" <[email protected]> wrote:
In article <[email protected]>,
"Mike Jacoubowsky" <[email protected]> wrote:

> >> Back in the day, wasn't it pretty much a requirement that you be dead
> >> before
> >> you could be a legend?
> >
> > I think it would be very hard to argue against the idea that, for
> > example, Merckx the elder, LANCE, and Indurain are all living legends.
> >
> >> Back in the day, wasn't it pretty much a requirement that you be dead
> >> before
> >> you could be a legend?
> >
> > I think it would be very hard to argue against the idea that, for
> > example, Merckx the elder, LANCE, and Indurain are all living legends.
>
> I think you put your finger on it, albeit without intending to. We used to
> refer to "living legends" vs plain old ordinary dead ones. There was an
> acceptance that legends were typically dead or at least very old before
> being worthy of the title. To call someone a legend while living was the
> exception, not the rule, and thus called out as a "living" legend.
>
> You don't see the preface ("living") applied much anymore.

Their careers are all dead. What more do you want?

I think one of the things you forget is that just because the legends of
yore are dead, doesn't mean they weren't legendary before their deaths.
Admittedly, I would narrow this claim to sportsmen, partly because the
deeds of real-life heroes don't lend themselves to mythologization. Even
Sir Winston Churchill seems more "heroic" or "historic" or
"world-changing" than "legendary," and he's dead.

I think that you start referring to sports stars as legendary about the
time their career accomplishments (and I'd say it almost always takes a
career, not a single-season or single-game achievement, to make a
legend) become so fantastic as to be unprecedented, nearly so, or merely
transformational.

Wayne Gretzky was almost certainly a legend by 1985, when he won his
third Stanley Cup, and posted his third 200+ point season, a feat no
other player has done even once.

Roger Bannister probably became an irrevocable legend the day he broke
the 4-minute mile.

Merckx? Wow. Everytime I look at his ridiculously deep palmares, I learn
something new. I'd say, that had he walked away from cycling after the
1971 season, nobody would have called him anything less than legendary:
5 Grand Tour GC wins in four years, two rainbow shirts (three if you
count his amateur championship), and an absurd number of classics and
lesser stage races, to say nothing of his two KOM and two Points wins in
the Tour.

Note that would have cut him off before he won another 34 GT stages and
six more GT GCs, another set of stripes, and absurd numbers of lesser
victories.

Oh, and he won the Super Prestige Pernod seven years running, just as an
aside.

--
Ryan Cousineau [email protected] http://www.wiredcola.com/
"I don't want kids who are thinking about going into mathematics
to think that they have to take drugs to succeed." -Paul Erdos

 

[Howard Kveck]

In article <[email protected]>,
Ryan Cousineau <[email protected]> wrote:

> I think that you start referring to sports stars as legendary about the
> time their career accomplishments (and I'd say it almost always takes a
> career, not a single-season or single-game achievement, to make a
> legend) become so fantastic as to be unprecedented, nearly so, or merely
> transformational.
>
> Wayne Gretzky was almost certainly a legend by 1985, when he won his
> third Stanley Cup, and posted his third 200+ point season, a feat no
> other player has done even once.
>
> Roger Bannister probably became an irrevocable legend the day he broke
> the 4-minute mile.
>
> Merckx? Wow. Everytime I look at his ridiculously deep palmares, I learn
> something new. I'd say, that had he walked away from cycling after the
> 1971 season, nobody would have called him anything less than legendary:
> 5 Grand Tour GC wins in four years, two rainbow shirts (three if you
> count his amateur championship), and an absurd number of classics and
> lesser stage races, to say nothing of his two KOM and two Points wins in
> the Tour.
>
> Note that would have cut him off before he won another 34 GT stages and
> six more GT GCs, another set of stripes, and absurd numbers of lesser
> victories.
>
> Oh, and he won the Super Prestige Pernod seven years running, just as an
> aside.

http://www.stevekinser.com/steve.asp

--
tanx,
Howard

Faberge eggs are elegant but I prefer Faberge bacon.

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