A year ago, I wrote a post immediately after the end of the 2009 Tour de France to thank Lance Armstrong for coming back to the pro peloton. This year, he didn’t podium. Controversy now surrounds him much like it did Barry Bonds a few years back with federal authorities looking for information and working to piece together a case. If guilty as claimed, it’s ominous. If wrongly accused, it’s an inconvenience. Some despise him, while others support him. I just want to thank him. Again. 2.0. Here’s the post if you didn’t get a chance to see it last July.
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I have to agree with you. Love him, hate him, accuse him, worship him……there is no denying what he has done for the sport of cycling and for cancer awareness….and for that I thank him. I’ll choose to remember his cycling career for the good things.
Darryl