I have that ‘93 Champs on video (non-Asian edition) and there aren’t any telling interviews or anything. I’ve followed him since his Subaru-Montgomery days and can confirm that back in ’92 & ’93, when he turned pro, he was considered kinduva, how do you say? “duck-head”.

But I do see him riding like Levi did in this year’s Veulta. Riding tempo enough to hurt some legs, but not hard enough to blow himself to bits. I think Lance will ride tempo at the foot of the climb, but never slay himself like Jens and Fabian did for Carlos. After putting in the required “team” time at the front, he will try to hang on to Bert’s tire for as long as possible and make up time in the time trials.

The wild card is the stage 20 finish at Ventoux. Harder to predict how the “team player” will act when he’s racing up a mountain, and not against the clock, on the day the Tour will be decided.

    I have no doubt. The scenario will be that he goes back to the team car for a chat and when he’s sure that the cameras are on him and rolling he will take on some bottles. It’s just makes PR sense.

I might be a sucker on this, but I actually take him at his word this time. i think he really wants to win a different GT and it being in its 100th year makes it even more special.

unbearable, I’d say.

I like how you think.

My main complaint about this news? Tuttobiciweb felt the need to run that stupid Liebowitz nude shot with today’s headline. Really, do I have to see that again? Too many re-runs. We really need some new material here.

are aimed not at hard core cycling fans, but at the general public who can probably only name one or two cyclists. While we’d think it’s very cool if he really rode support for a teammate, most people would hear that story as simply “Lance failed in his comeback”. I just don’t see him going to the Tour and not aiming for a win, but I’d love to be wrong.

Oh, and ‘Levi and I’? Bad grammar there Lance!

Wanna go surfing Lance? We’ll take you surfing…

that blows m mind.

Also, when does he get an Astana jersey of his own?

An unidentified American Tour de France podium finisher. I think it’s time to give ESPN massive shit over this.

I think it’s time to go large with this in its own thread.

It’s landed here in Chicagoland and was a bitch to shovel tonight. Feel free to come and get it. You can have it for free. really. you can. :-)

Nothing open in Washington yet. It was 55 degrees in the Cascades yesterday.

News Flash in the scrolling Latest News box on the right side of the page.

It must be revenge from that spokesperson-guy who was left out of the loop and made comments like “Lance to Astana? What is you , drunk?” the day before Lance joined Astana.

And Lance gets a room to himself I see…..hmmmm

I am wondering how much the traffic increased on the Astana website since the Lance comeback announcement.

here’s the link to the article

Far west! That’s all! Yo, Lance, Madiot is totally in your gourd now.

fixed

who are the wildcards tho?

McEwen, Steegmans, and De Haes, they clearly want to get Robbie some more wins in his home country.

I found that to be pretty exciting to see that he’s going to be racing again after such a hard year after his fall. Good lucks and cheers to him on his continued recovery!!!!