Originally Posted by
lagrassa
Yes, Armstrong won seven Tours, which no one else has done, but he focused solely on the TDF. Merckx won "only" five Tours, but he also won five Giros, and I believe he did win both in the same year, twice.
He did this with technologically inferior equipment and training regimes as compared to today. In my mind, he holds the bar to which other cyclists are measured.
Indeed. My problem with Lance is that he just seems so full of himself. Like he's Gods gift to cycling or something. Of course, I don't know him personally, and he could actually be a nice fellow. But I have no proof to the contrary, and the media makes him out to be bigger than life. Did we hear about Dave Zabriskie's house being broken into and him losing $200k worth of stuff? No (unless you live in CA). But we hear too much, IMO, about Lance. What happened to Zabriskie is a tragedy. I could care less about Lance though.
-Gene-