Saturday, July 23, 2005

Armstrong Again

Lance Armstrong has locked up his 7th Tour de France.

Tomorrow's the last official day of the race, but that's a mostly ceremonial ride into Paris. Today was the last day that really counted.

It was an Individual Time Trial race today - which means that you truly race alone, as an individual, with no team to help you. With no one - not even a competitor - to ride behind at all.

(Above 16 mph or so, one of the main impediments to bicycle speed is air resistance. In team cycling, riders take turns being the person out front who pedals really hard to break the air resistance. It is much easier to ride behind somebody else, which is called "drafting.")

So Lance rode on his own. And won.

You know, he sure has a name that sounds like a super-hero.

His mama named him "Armstrong, Lance".
Is it wrong to suspect she knew in advance?

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