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Date Posted: 09:24:13 09/11/04 Sat
Author: wow
Subject: Re: Tyler continues to own Lance
In reply to: Dave Tormley 's message, "Re: Tyler continues to own Lance" on 09:12:14 09/11/04 Sat

>Yeah, just as Michael Chan owned Pete Sampras and
>McEnroe because they never won the French open and he
>did. Yup, I think the historians of the future are
>going to write Armstrong out of the history books in
>favour of Tylor ... 6 TdF GC victories, stacks of
>Stage Race GC victories, pretty meagre stuff by
>comparison with TH's towering achievements.
>
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>>First Tyler wins Liege-Bastogne-Liege, beating Lance
>>to become the first American to win that race.
>>
>>Then Tyler wins an Olympic gold, something Lance has
>>never done; Tyler is an OLYMPIC champion, Lance is
>not.
>>
>>Now Tyler has won stages in all 3 GTs.
>>
>>Lance may be the greatest Tour rider ever but is Tyler
>>on his way to becoming the greatest overall American
>>cyclist ever? He certainly is building quite a nice
>>and varied palmares.

Obviously you missed the point. By your "logic," Armstrong has erased Merckx from the history books simply because Armstrong has won the Tour more times. That's rich.

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