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> TritonRider wrote:
>
> > Question: If Jan had Lance's mental toughness and desire how good would he be?
> >
> > I'm gonna say that he'd be the best all around rider since Merckx. He doesn't have the quick
> > acceleration, but I think he could ride just about everyone off his wheel in anything other
> > than a sprinters race. Too bad he's a head case. Bill C.
>
> What kind of gay question is this? Do you think the final GC of the Tour de France is a scientific
> ranking of riders' mental toughness? Maybe Jan is mentally tougher than Lance but Lance has better
> genetics?
>
> Jan was World TT champion and Olympic gold medalist in the road race, neither of which Lance won.
>
> So your question is bizarre. Why don't you ask how come Lance isn't as "mentally tough" as
> Cipollini, you jackass? Don't you see how ludicrous that question is?
>
> Maybe Lance wins all these races because he was born with far superior genetics than everyone else
> and you misinterpet his "mental toughness" for what is really nothing but superior genes. Maybe
> Jan has surpassed his genetic capabilities relative to his limits moreso than Lance has?
>
> I like how you fail to quantify either athlete's physiological, genetic, or mental toughness - all
> of which would be extremely complex tasks to do accurately, but then go on to reduce what would
> amount to thousands of pages of science into a ****ing gay ass singularl assumption of "mental
> toughness."
>
> Anybody who responds to your post as if it should be taken seriously is just as gay as you are.
>
> Sounds like you shower with soap-on-a-rope,
>
> Café
Wow! Can anyone be anymore harsh than you for someone wanting to incite something that represents a
good conversational thread and discussion? Nope, don't think so. When you call someone a "jackass",
maybe you should look into a mirror more often if you want to see a jackass.
If you look at it, bicycle racing does require that you have a mental toughness. If you don't think
so, you must not have ever raced a bike. Lance does have extreme mental toughness and focus, and yes
a genetic gift that 99.9% of us in this world don't have. Jan has a gift as well, but as we've seen
in the past from him, his lack of discipline in the head has kept him from winning another Tour de
France, not his lack of physical prowess. This is a valid question. It's not "gay" as you say. I'm
sure you'll have some sort of "witty" response to this post, but I can easily discount the
uninformed and ignorant in this world, and also someone that doesn't post under his/her own name (as
I'm sure your name is not Cafe).
Tom