So, will Lance pull a Landis tomorrow?

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I'm no Lance fan; but, if I were, then I think this would be best case scenario:

-Ride in the gruppetto through the second rest day, doing nothing but saving energy, losing time, and letting wounds heal
-Go for broke early on a mountain stage, looking for 5+hrs of solo face time on TV and a stage win--have to admit, not too bad for a swansong
-Try to recover again for a couple of days
-Try to make one last stand in the "race of truth"

Like it or not, Lance seemed to have better form this year than in '09. If he can recover, he's got a big ride in him.

Personally, I prefer the Revenge Fantasy, though, and it's so much more 'Lance': team up with such cancer haters as Basso and Schleck to defeat He Who Does Not Wear The Yellow Bracelet (but probably wears the yellow jersey). Given what's brewing off the bike, re-living the Simeoni incident would be more fitting than emulating Floyd "Tokyo Drift" Landis (and given Lance's recent crash history, there's no way he could descend like Floyd on the solo break, anyway)
 
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Lady Luck said:
There are two questions now. Will the other teams allow him to go for a stage win at some point? .....
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Hell NO!!
With his eye now off the big prize, he should do the HONORABLE ( this word is missing in his vocabulary) thing and step aside , finish the race, and let somebody else who hasn't amassed any fame and fortune in this race take a stage win and the glory that goes with it.
He should be super domistique for Levi.
He's in a position to find a modicum of redemption for his selfish ways, but I doubt he'll take that route.

Remember the Simeoni incident?

LA has no honour in winning or losing.
 
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Cobblestones said:
Of course he will pull a Landis. 'We might as well win', remember? The Hog will rent a water truck and constantly spray Lance to cool him down (from behind, with considerable pressure). He will win by 200 min, thereby putting everybody else outside of the time limit. It will be glorious to behold.
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Hope he will be able to keep the spincter tight, then.:p
 
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Lady Luck said:
Yeah I agree. They will probably wait until the last week, when there is no way he can get back, to let him go for a stage win. But if he loses even more time before then, like tomorrow, then he might be allowed to do something this week.

But it depends what he tries to do. If he manages to escape with a few k to go, I don't think Astana will be bothered.
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I think Vinokourov will hunt him down.
 
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Lady Luck said:
Yeah I agree. They will probably wait until the last week, when there is no way he can get back, to let him go for a stage win. But if he loses even more time before then, like tomorrow, then he might be allowed to do something this week.
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you really think they will let him go. I think there are plenty of riders who will chase him down, plenty of riders who dont think he shuold get all the attention, plenty of riders who dont want paris to be turned into a armstrong celibration. Garmin for one i think will lead the chase down, astana wont let him have stage win, nobody should be gifted a stage win.
 
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he's been tested again today.. thats two days in a row (maybe 3).. Levi tested today as well. Be willing to bet they are tested tommorow as well..

Would make sense.

Test am of stage 8
Test am of Rest Day
Test am of stage 9

builds up a nice little three day profile, easy to spot any rest day discrepancies.
 
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the most effective thing to do is ignore his whole situation but the haters can't let it go and the the lovefest is blind. I thought the lebron james thing was ghey.. One thing for sure...i've never had michelob ultra.
 
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he's been tested again today.. thats two days in a row (maybe 3).. Levi tested today as well. Be willing to bet they are tested tommorow as well..

Would make sense.

Test am of stage 8
Test am of Rest Day
Test am of stage 9

builds up a nice little three day profile, easy to spot any rest day discrepancies.
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Yeah they're really targeting him. On the eve of the tour he got tested twice from two different organisations, taking five bottles of blood.

It's funny because it's often said that this stuff about Armstrong being "the most test athlete in the world" is just PR spin. But it's probably true now.
 
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If they are going to do blood transfusions this year, and I seriously doubt they will bother with all the attention, I think they won't do it on the rest day this time. It's too obvious.
 
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Lady Luck said:
Yeah they're really targeting him. On the eve of the tour he got tested twice from two different organisations, taking five bottles of blood.

It's funny because it's often said that this stuff about Armstrong being "the most test athlete in the world" is just PR spin. But it's probably true now.
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LOL. More pathetic crap from BPC.
 
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Lady Luck said:
Yeah they're really targeting him. On the eve of the tour he got tested twice from two different organisations, taking five bottles of blood.

It's funny because it's often said that this stuff about Armstrong being "the most test athlete in the world" is just PR spin. But it's probably true now.
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It will be interesting to know if these are UCI tests, or WADA/AFLD ENFORCED tests conducted by the UCI.. ;)

There is a huge difference between the two.
 
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As in, losing a dozen minutes the one day only to win them back at the next mountain stage.

Would the competition disallow the old fart to ride off? They let Landis. And that's how Perreiro got his win also, a long escape.
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Not a snowballs chance in hell. And really, I don't think the old guy is up to it anyway.
 
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The better question is Lance going to work for Levi now, since Levi's only 2:14 off the lead?

Or is he gonna pull the same BS he did with Contador last year??? :rolleyes:
 
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Omg it would be so cool if Lance shot up some nuclear dope and shared it with Vino and they went on a rampant breakaway together gaining 15 minutes or more.. This is what needs to happen at every bike race, to draw fans in, and get big sponsors like Monster energy drink. real drama, real action! not this silly BS where alberto plays it cool then wins like we all know he will.
 
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Big Doopie

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it's very simple.

if he gets a blood refill he will ride again with the best, but if he doesn't get topped off during the week, watch as he crumbles before the next rest day.

if he doesn't get a refill today -- then he will shortly be out of the tour. without xtra blood or epo, armstrong at his best was an hour and a half behind...and that was when he was young. his return from retirement was predicated on two things -- that he would be able to blood dope and that the uci would be complicit. i'm sure ferrari and mcquaid/verdruggen assured him of that before he ever would risk returning. if the recent investigations and wada's supervision have truly scared him off the dope then we will witness a guy he who could never climb the big cols...and now he's almost 39...

and he will not finish.

because physically he is not able to finish.

the mental hit he is taking right now is not the crashes, it's the confirmation that he could never be a GC rider without all the blood doping.
 
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rumours are starting to appear online that hes quit..
but i dont beleive rumours..

At least hes got his excuse now, injured on the stage, cannot ride on.. greated a hero by his fans who will beleive he would have won the tour had it not been for the crash.
 
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