Lance!

Jul 22, 2004 07:00

It bothers my well-cultivated sense of superstition that all these articles keep proclaiming Lance Armstrong the Tour de France winner, "unless some disaster befalls him." In the Kay Hale world of stuff you don't say, "unless some disaster befalls him" is a close second to proclaiming anyone the winner of anything they haven't actually won yet ( Read more... )

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Go Lance! jp42 July 22 2004, 05:33:34 UTC
Cripes, that's an amazing photo. Those legs...sheesh.

H and I are following the Tour as closely as we can for people without television (yay broadband and olntv.com!), and are also getting alternately tired of and nervous about the fact that all the commentators seem to have granted the win to Armstrong with 6 days left to go. Stupid, but I can't stop thinking, "Shut up! Don't jinx it, damn you!" But I guess no matter what happens, it's an amazing story.

We're probably going to miss the last two days of the Tour, though, since we'll be out riding ourselves (on a significantly sorter/slower ride, but still long) all weekend, but hopefully we can catch replays somewhere on Sunday night.

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juliamgh July 22 2004, 11:11:20 UTC
He is yummy! I cheered when they showed the Lance add before I, Robot last night. I was the only one, though. :-( My sister has one of the bracelets too. :-)

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juliamgh July 22 2004, 17:20:47 UTC
Oops! Just noticed I misspelled "ad."

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Vive Lance! ndancer July 22 2004, 15:27:46 UTC
Wow! Nice pic! He may be starring in my dreams tonight. I should be so lucky.

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