this may have been covered before, so remove if you wish, but it's something that I've wondered for a while, and yet no book on the whole US Postal/LA story seems to mention it **
Weisel(sp?) bankrolled and began US Postal in the late 90's, right?
Before 1998/99...
So, why when you have riders, who're fully fit and seasoned competitors, would you say "
okay, we have a guy who wasn't all that great at grand tours, hasn't ridden & raced for a couple of years due to cancer, but now he's making a comback, so lets make him our team's leader"...
how exactly did LA become their team leader with f*ckall credentials for GTs?
Archibald said:
Lance Armstrong was a darling of the USCF by 1990 and still very young at 19 years. He already had name recognition in the U.S. going into a pro career after 1992 and his classic wins made him top dollar here, beating cancer made that 10 to the 10th, and we now know that it was possible to make him into a GT rider. EPO had arrived. USPS was an "American" team.