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Neworld said:The bottom line is that the JU crash certainly didn't help him the next day. And, that Jan never used it as an excuse, he just rode.
Lance was always a 3 month rider with an undeniable path to only race one GT a year, with the best doped team, with more 'captains' on his team than any other, without a sprinter, with the best TTT selection, and with undeniable 'protection'.
Funny how at the 2000 Olympics, where he knew he was pharmaceutically vulnerable he showed so poorly for such an awesome'ness' champion. Jan took the RR gold and ITT silver. Ouch, what happened to his unparalleled physiological and biomechanical traits? Ya real awesome. That must have been hard to swallow.
You'd think with all his physical attributes, cunning strategies and overall superiority that even at the age of 38 he'd crush the 'pack fill' riding beside him; or...his perceived advantages were outright fake.
NW
Agreed. He came out with the "back" excuse for the 2000 Games. Ullrich showed his supreme class on both those days. Armstrong never road the games again mind you.
Yes for all of Armstrong amazing philology it only seemed to kick in around July.
