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Lance Armstrong will win stage 15...

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The Col d porte d'aste is on this stage and im convinced he will win this stage in memory of Casartelli, i can see him losing 20 minutes on stage 14 to allow his presence in an early break away

Love him or hate him wouldn't this be a very fitting finale for him
 
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ttrider said:
The Col d porte d'aste is on this stage and im convinced he will win this stage in memory of Casartelli, i can see him losing 20 minutes on stage 14 to allow his presence in an early break away

Love him or hate him wouldn't this be a very fitting finale for him
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I am not fond of him, but even i unlike you, want him to end like Fabio or call it a fitting finale.
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ttrider said:
The Col d porte d'aste is on this stage and im convinced he will win this stage in memory of Casartelli, i can see him losing 20 minutes on stage 14 to allow his presence in an early break away

Love him or hate him wouldn't this be a very fitting finale for him
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A fitting finale would be for him to be his relatively normal organism and have to abandon with photographers and tv crews capturing it all for posterity.

Then returning to the U.S. to face the music for his crimes.
 
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ttrider said:
Love him or hate him wouldn't this be a very fitting finale for him
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This idea of a fitting finale is always overated. People who recieve these fitting finalies, enjoy it while it lasts, but forget about it soon after. For sports people, the present is usually all that matters. Lance had a fitting finaly. As good as it gets. He won the tour for a record 7th time and got to make a farewell speech, + and he got recognised as one of the great athletes of all time.

But this fitting finale wasnt good enough and it rarely is for athletes. I see no reason to see why a stage win would be any better.
 
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buckwheat said:
A fitting finale would be for him to be his relatively normal organism and have to abandon with photographers and tv crews capturing it all for posterity.

Then returning to the U.S. to face the music for his crimes.
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£10 says after the Tour he disappears and we don't hear anything from him for the rest of the year.
 
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ttrider said:
The Col d porte d'aste is on this stage and im convinced he will win this stage in memory of Casartelli, i can see him losing 20 minutes on stage 14 to allow his presence in an early break away

Love him or hate him wouldn't this be a very fitting finale for him
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i remember the armstrong interview after casartelli died. lance said he didn't really know the guy. i was a huge LA fan at the time but i thought "this isn't about YOU lance".

these days lance claims they were friends.

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after looking at the map of the stage... i think he will not... my guess is there will be a battle between contador and schleck and armstrong will be helping levi and they will get distanced too much for armstrong to win the stage....
 
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buckwheat said:
A fitting finale would be for him to be his relatively normal organism and have to abandon with photographers and tv crews capturing it all for posterity.

Then returning to the U.S. to face the music for his crimes.
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Why do you watch cycling? Oh I get it you have a reason to complain about something!
 
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Why do you watch cycling?
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Certainly not for the reality of the competitors or the competition.

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Oh I get it you have a reason to complain about something!
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You sound like the power structure in cycling.

Armstrong's advice to Bassons for instance, or HV's letters to FL.
 
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Ummm, he could have had that "fitting finale" on the top spot of the podium on the Champs Élysées ... in 2005. Instead he came back. He is getting the fitting finale of Jordan in Washington.
 
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This idea of a fitting finale is always overated. People who recieve these fitting finalies, enjoy it while it lasts, but forget about it soon after. For sports people, the present is usually all that matters. Lance had a fitting finaly. As good as it gets. He won the tour for a record 7th time and got to make a farewell speech, + and he got recognised as one of the great athletes of all time.

But this fitting finale wasnt good enough and it rarely is for athletes. I see no reason to see why a stage win would be any better.
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^very good observation. athletes aren't good at the "off" button - see Michael Jordan.
 
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Ummm, he could have had that "fitting finale" on the top spot of the podium on the Champs Élysées ... in 2005. Instead he came back. He is getting the fitting finale of Jordan in Washington.
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^stole my brain.
 
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a fitting finale would be his arrest on the champs elysees. Preferably right in front of me so i can get a good view
 
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Certainly not for the reality of the competitors or the competition.



You sound like the power structure in cycling.

Armstrong's advice to Bassons for instance, or HV's letters to FL.
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The only way to clean up cycling is to start teaching the youngsters it is OK not to dope. Unlike the Ukrainian dads who brought their own product supplies for their racer boys. That I am unhappy about. I do not have issue with Lance I love the guy and the interest and sponsership that he brings to our sport.
 
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I think it will be stage 16 for sure :)


When I see all these (fanboy)haters I have a short message:
It must have been 7 very hard years for you. All the pressure comes out (now).
I am very sorry that you will lose your motivation after he, who saved the world, retires and that you pop off into the depth of the internet.
But the fanboys will still be here an follow CYCLING anyway. That makes the difference between the fanboys and the haters.
 
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WTF???? what is this mates?

We should be talking about El Pistolero, Andy, Kreuziger, Basso, Menchov, SSanchez, LLSanchez, Wiggo, Gesink or another GC contender... we have to stop talking about the oldman... we know that he is dirty as a pig but right now he is not the main actor... his time already passed and he will leave the Cycling using the back door...end... I'm not a LA hater but Je déteste all those LA Fanboys who still thinks that LA is the best and he is the cleanet rider ever... bah...
 
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