smokerblog

You Think a Little Mountain is Going to Stop Him?

Lance Armstrong is the man.

Everybody says so. And after his string of crushing counter-attacks against his opponents in the mountain stages, it's easy to see why.

His chief rival has essentially thrown in the towel, focussing his attention on third place. The man currently riding in second place calls Armstrong unbeatable. Armstrong has been so dominant that many are citing relief from boredom as a reason to be glad that this is his last race. At this point only a crash or illness will prevent him from winning his seventh yellow jersey.

To what does Armstrong attribute his Tour successes? Revenge. In a recent Playboy interview (I just read the articles, honest) he describes an almost vindictive, ruthless attitude against those who have written him off or have otherwise criticized him. In fact, he claims that if it weren't for his bout with cancer, he never would have discovered the will necessary to win a single Tour.

In Lance's case, cancer didn't kill him, it only made him stronger.