Geeze, you guys act like LA is a monster or something! A lot of haters on here. He's a proud former-champion that doesn't 'go quietly into the night' like I'm sure many of you wish. Not many do. Heck, Poulidor rode his last TdF when he was 40. Sure, he never won, but he kept banging away long after others were telling him he should stop. It's like Favre in the NFL: If you've got the skills and can compete and want to compete, why not? LA came third. Hey, you know? That's not so bad. Only two guys beat him and one by only a minute and a half. Of course he's going to be proud. How many of you guys have ever been good enough to get on a pro team, much less been to the TdF to compete, much less been on a podium? The guy is far from perfect. He has emotions, sue him! I guarantee if the Internet and Twitter were around when Merckx was around you would have heard far worse. It's accessability that hurts peoples images of a person. Sure, he's said a few yucky things on Twitter, at least he didn't abandon Kloden. AC may be a great champion (and probably will be for another 2 or 3 years), but everyone on here is so anti-LA and nobody mentions anything about AC. Go ahead, sit on your armchairs and chomp away on your bags of chips and bleat on rooftops at the top of your voice that yours is the voice of reason. Whatever.