Originally Posted by Thylacine

I would've liked to see him win some other race. Any other race, I'm not fussy. Perhaps like the Giro d'Italia or the Tour of Spain? You know, something that would've elevated him above the single-minded mainstream join-the-dots dude that he is.

While he was racing some other race asided from the TdF, perhaps he could so some other good things like make those pesky yellow landfill wristbands out of something recyclable, denounce Nike as the amoral exploititive cult that they are, and maybe pick some other bike manufacturer apart from the biggest and most boring. Perhaps he might find time to find a partner that's not a potential trophy wife, or perhaps one that doesn't look like him except has long hair and boobs. Maybe he'll even come out and say "Of course I'm a doper! How do you think you recover from Cancer so well so quickly? By sipping herbal tea and doing Pilates? What are you, an idiot?"

Ahhh, but we can dream can't we?