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Mike Jacoubowsky
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http://outside.away.com/magazine/0794/947flanc.html
Staffers from the French sports daily L'Equipe, digging for a "Le Cowboy"
cover line, even went to the trouble of purchasing a Dallas Cowboys helmet,
jersey, pants, and shoulder pads. Armstrong, however, wasn't feeling
playful. "The helmet was, like, a really cheesy one, like somebody had
hand-painted it," he says. "And they expected me to dress up in it to take
pictures. No way."
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So back in 1994, Lance ticks off L'Equipe, and the magazine spend the next
two decades getting back at hime. :>)
Actually, it's an interesting article to read, written in 1994, about Lance.
Later we find this quote-
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Armstrong felt overwhelmed. One day he was a free-spirited prospect; the
next he was the second coming of LeMond, a cycling savior and potential
helmet-wearing, politically correct champion for English-speaking cycling
fandom. At 21 he'd had a career year, and now, on the verge of a new season,
he needed to work toward an encore. But what would suffice? "It's all
happened so fast," says Armstrong. "People have to realize I'm not a
30-year-old ambassador for the sport, but a 22-year-old trying to take it
all in and be cool about it."
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So, when Lance was 30, was he truly an ambassador for the sport?
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"I'm Not the Next Greg LeMond. I'm the First Lance Armstrong."
During his less emotional moments, however, Armstrong seems to be getting
wiser. He doesn't mouth-off the way he used to, and he no longer drops his
name in the same sentence as LeMond's.
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Interesting to see that there was potentially a Lance/LeMond spat going on
back in 1994.
--Mike-- Chain Reaction Bicycles
www.ChainReactionBicycles.com
Staffers from the French sports daily L'Equipe, digging for a "Le Cowboy"
cover line, even went to the trouble of purchasing a Dallas Cowboys helmet,
jersey, pants, and shoulder pads. Armstrong, however, wasn't feeling
playful. "The helmet was, like, a really cheesy one, like somebody had
hand-painted it," he says. "And they expected me to dress up in it to take
pictures. No way."
==============================
So back in 1994, Lance ticks off L'Equipe, and the magazine spend the next
two decades getting back at hime. :>)
Actually, it's an interesting article to read, written in 1994, about Lance.
Later we find this quote-
==============================
Armstrong felt overwhelmed. One day he was a free-spirited prospect; the
next he was the second coming of LeMond, a cycling savior and potential
helmet-wearing, politically correct champion for English-speaking cycling
fandom. At 21 he'd had a career year, and now, on the verge of a new season,
he needed to work toward an encore. But what would suffice? "It's all
happened so fast," says Armstrong. "People have to realize I'm not a
30-year-old ambassador for the sport, but a 22-year-old trying to take it
all in and be cool about it."
==============================
So, when Lance was 30, was he truly an ambassador for the sport?
==============================
"I'm Not the Next Greg LeMond. I'm the First Lance Armstrong."
During his less emotional moments, however, Armstrong seems to be getting
wiser. He doesn't mouth-off the way he used to, and he no longer drops his
name in the same sentence as LeMond's.
==============================
Interesting to see that there was potentially a Lance/LeMond spat going on
back in 1994.
--Mike-- Chain Reaction Bicycles
www.ChainReactionBicycles.com