I used to like Lance Armstrong, I met him on a couple of occasions at stage
starts before he had to have his enforced lay off, my wife got his autograph
in Leeds. I am enjoying this tour because he as some competition and he is
not several minutes ahead.

I have been following the tour since 1987, been at the roadside for 11 of
them including 1989, and in that time I have lived through the Indurain and
Armstrong years, their style of tour has really made for a dull race IMHO,
this year is better as others believe that Lance is beatable.

I hope it comes to a showdown with Ullrich on Saturday in the TT.

Chapeau to Tyler Hamilton.

"Just zis Guy, you know?" wrote in message
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It's like this: in the past I could watch the Tour on TV and enjoy it,
because I didn't care who won. Now I do. I really want Lance to pick
up that fifth Tour - I have no idea why, logically I should be
supporting Vino who is on fantastic form or David "British" Millar, or
just not caring because there are some truly amazing riders in there
this year, Mayo, Hamilton, Vinrenque and Ullrich to name but a few.

But for some reason I want Lance to win - and in my experience whenever
I want someone to win, they don't :-(

So now I can't bear to watch the Tour live, even thoughI'm at Mums and
they have cable and ITV2 and ****, I'll just have to go back to reading
the results and then watching Liggett's Hour on tape.

A hopeless case.

Guy