View Poll Results: What is currently the biggest thing in road cycling/racing?
Advanced materials/innovations
10
14.08%
TdF
12
16.90%
The doping scandals
11
15.49%
Lance Armstrong's ego
38
53.52%
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The biggest thing in road cycling/racing
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What is currently the biggest thing in road cycling/racing?
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Which comes first, the big ego, or the accomplishments that justify having a big ego?
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Lance had a big ego long before he had the accomplishments to back them up. Anyone who says otherwise didn't follow his career. Granted, he won a world championship because of it.
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I'm kind of surprised by the hate on some people have for Lance Armstrong.
Is Lance's ego really that much worse/bigger/more irritating than anyone who has achieved comparable success in their fields?
I know composers who are bigheaded; I know fellow doctors whose successes as surgeons have swelled their egos to fill rooms. Doesn't success take a particular kind of personality, one that bugs the rest of us?
What is "ego"? That he is self-regarding? That he walks over people to attain his goals? That he's a narcissist or solipsist? I don't see these things, except maybe that he's hugely driven.
I started reading LA's twitter postings for the heck of it, because I got curious. I don't see the "ego" there on display being anything other than what a normal hugely successful, driven and motivated athlete displays. As a matter of fact, compared with NBA stars, LA seems genuinely altruistic.
Maybe some of us just have a propensity to hate (or envy) the successful...
Is Lance's ego really that much worse/bigger/more irritating than anyone who has achieved comparable success in their fields?
I know composers who are bigheaded; I know fellow doctors whose successes as surgeons have swelled their egos to fill rooms. Doesn't success take a particular kind of personality, one that bugs the rest of us?
What is "ego"? That he is self-regarding? That he walks over people to attain his goals? That he's a narcissist or solipsist? I don't see these things, except maybe that he's hugely driven.
I started reading LA's twitter postings for the heck of it, because I got curious. I don't see the "ego" there on display being anything other than what a normal hugely successful, driven and motivated athlete displays. As a matter of fact, compared with NBA stars, LA seems genuinely altruistic.
Maybe some of us just have a propensity to hate (or envy) the successful...
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I'm kind of surprised by the hate on some people have for Lance Armstrong.
Is Lance's ego really that much worse/bigger/more irritating than anyone who has achieved comparable success in their fields?
I know composers who are bigheaded; I know fellow doctors whose successes as surgeons have swelled their egos to fill rooms. Doesn't success take a particular kind of personality, one that bugs the rest of us?
What is "ego"? That he is self-regarding? That he walks over people to attain his goals? That he's a narcissist or solipsist? I don't see these things, except maybe that he's hugely driven.
I started reading LA's twitter postings for the heck of it, because I got curious. I don't see the "ego" there on display being anything other than what a normal hugely successful, driven and motivated athlete displays. As a matter of fact, compared with NBA stars, LA seems genuinely altruistic.
Maybe some of us just have a propensity to hate (or envy) the successful...
Is Lance's ego really that much worse/bigger/more irritating than anyone who has achieved comparable success in their fields?
I know composers who are bigheaded; I know fellow doctors whose successes as surgeons have swelled their egos to fill rooms. Doesn't success take a particular kind of personality, one that bugs the rest of us?
What is "ego"? That he is self-regarding? That he walks over people to attain his goals? That he's a narcissist or solipsist? I don't see these things, except maybe that he's hugely driven.
I started reading LA's twitter postings for the heck of it, because I got curious. I don't see the "ego" there on display being anything other than what a normal hugely successful, driven and motivated athlete displays. As a matter of fact, compared with NBA stars, LA seems genuinely altruistic.
Maybe some of us just have a propensity to hate (or envy) the successful...
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Lance's ego seems about the same as other "elite" riders. Hope all have a suscessful and safe season.
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Your last sentence is what i was saying, i.e. perhaps it is having a big ego that turns some people into winners. They have a certain high opinion of themselves and then have to go out there and show other people that it is justified, ha!
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I don't know about that. I remember when he abandoned his first TdF and was whining like a little b**ch about how it is "a man's race".
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He was racing as an amateur in Texas during his early years off the front of the pack giving the on lookers the longhorn symbol.......... Until about 5k go to when the pack got him then spit his ass out the back.
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