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[email protected] (Davide Tosi) wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> [email protected] (Ronde Champ) wrote:
>
> >Hey,
> >
> > Eddy Merckx was only able to win five Tour de France. Lance Armstrong
> >has won six.
>
> Tour de France is just one race, not even the top one.
>
> Milano-San Remo, Ronde van Vlaanderen, Paris-Roubaix, Liège-Bastogne-Liège
> and Giro di Lombardia are the real deal, the only immortal races. In a few
> years, when France will be a muslim republic, there won't any TdF anymore.
> The monuments are immortal, the only cycling races that are doomed to last
> forever.
>
> Not just Merckx, but DeVlaeminck, Museeuw, Van Steenbergen, Van Looy etc...
> were all superior to Armstrong by far.
I really like this statement! Especially when i comes from an italian.
> [email protected] (Ronde Champ) wrote:
>
> >Hey,
> >
> > Eddy Merckx was only able to win five Tour de France. Lance Armstrong
> >has won six.
>
> Tour de France is just one race, not even the top one.
>
> Milano-San Remo, Ronde van Vlaanderen, Paris-Roubaix, Liège-Bastogne-Liège
> and Giro di Lombardia are the real deal, the only immortal races. In a few
> years, when France will be a muslim republic, there won't any TdF anymore.
> The monuments are immortal, the only cycling races that are doomed to last
> forever.
>
> Not just Merckx, but DeVlaeminck, Museeuw, Van Steenbergen, Van Looy etc...
> were all superior to Armstrong by far.
I really like this statement! Especially when i comes from an italian.