Lance is Back!?!?!?!?!?!?

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  • CheeseyJoe
    CheeseyJoe Posts: 95
    Next years Tour De France should be interesting.
  • overmars
    overmars Posts: 430
    Wow indeed! :D
  • mikedobson
    mikedobson Posts: 186
    Interesting to see what type of route Prudhomme will choose now, Ventoux been absent for some years now. Sastre vs Lance in Alpe d Huez TT anyone?

    Mouth watering.
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  • pedylan
    pedylan Posts: 768
    CheeseyJoe wrote:
    Next years Tour De France should be interesting.

    Yep, interesting in a way that none of the post Lance Tours have been.

    Welcome back Lance.
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  • McBain_v1
    McBain_v1 Posts: 5,237
    I told you, he won't be happy until he's beaten Michael Phelps' record of eight wins!
    What do I ride? Now that's an Enigma!
  • ChrisLS
    ChrisLS Posts: 2,749
    ...welcome back Lance... :D

    he must have been getting bored. Can't wait to see him race again... 8)
    ...all the way...'til the wheels fall off and burn...
  • LorneC
    LorneC Posts: 149
    Glad that I am doing the Action Medical Research London to Paris route next July - will be there on the final day to see Lance.

    Can't imagine Contador will be too happy if Astana sign Lance....
    Already signed up for the following 2010 rides:

    Etape Caledonia (May 16th)
    AMR's Trossachs Ton (June 20th)
    AMR's Cross-Border Sportive (Sept 19th)

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  • cougie
    cougie Posts: 22,512
    Astana sign Lance ? Lance is big enough to sign Astana !
  • guinea
    guinea Posts: 1,177
    mikedobson wrote:
    Interesting to see what type of route Prudhomme will choose now, Ventoux been absent for some years now. Sastre vs Lance in Alpe d Huez TT anyone?

    Mouth watering.

    Amazing!

    Unlikely to be the Alpe next year, but Ventoux is the climb Lance always regreted not winning.
  • mikedobson
    mikedobson Posts: 186
    I think it could go two ways, either Prudhomme will embrace Armstrong and set a profile and tt's for him to thrive or it will be seen as a publicity seeking stunt and the organisers will seek to neutralise him. But this year's tour was noticeably lower impact than previous years (in fact isn't that one of the reasons Lance cited for taken it on again?) in which case it will look like a vendetta if next year's is harder again.

    Really could be rather interesting.
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  • sicrow
    sicrow Posts: 791
    LorneC wrote:
    Glad that I am doing the Action Medical Research London to Paris route next July - will be there on the final day to see Lance.

    Can't imagine Contador will be too happy if Astana sign Lance....

    Ditto looking more forward to it already :shock:
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  • turkeytickler
    turkeytickler Posts: 640
    mikedobson wrote:
    I think it could go two ways, either Prudhomme will embrace Armstrong and set a profile and tt's for him to thrive or it will be seen as a publicity seeking stunt and the organisers will seek to neutralise him. But this year's tour was noticeably lower impact than previous years (in fact isn't that one of the reasons Lance cited for taken it on again?) in which case it will look like a vendetta if next year's is harder again.

    Really could be rather interesting.
    Didn't he state it was slower ? (I read that somewhere) - not sure that's attributable to his absence or that of any significant talent more the absence of you-know-what....

    personally - shoot me down in flames - i was glad to see the back of him after win 7 - I don't recall being on the edge of my seat up to the end of the final TT during his era like I was this year (and finally the guy I supported won :lol: ).

    Mind you - if he promises to point some of that patron behaviour in Evans's direction I might not be too upset!

    Despite the above - can't deny the man is a legend... and grudgingly I suppose I have to concede it would probably be good for the sport - what with dwindling sponsorship etc)
  • Jaeger
    Jaeger Posts: 439
    When is the route for 2009 unveiled?

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