He also won a goodly portion of the NRC when he was racing in the US. There's a picture of a rather chubby-faced Lance from the Fitchburg-Longso Classic in my office (he won that) and then there's USPro and that whole three race thing that won him a million bucks. Still all the guys I've met and talked to who raced against him call him an ******* (Best story being that Kristin Armstrong actually went back and paid a guy for wheel of his that Lance wrecked and refused to pay for).