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re: Lance Armstrong was part of the most complex doping scheme ever...
Posted on 10/10/12 at 1:05 pm to ProjectP2294
Posted on 10/10/12 at 1:05 pm to ProjectP2294
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If the bar for being a great athlete were based on being able to do things that I can't, anyone that can hit a curveball, catch a football, or make a 3-pointer would be considered a great athlete.
Then you're missing the point. There are maybe 100 people in the world that are able to compete regularly in competitive cycling. By compete, I mean on a level to have a chance to win regularly. I would say that's pretty extraordinary.
Not everyone that rides in the Tour are there to win. There is a lot of team strategy that goes in to riding. Guys have roles on their teams.
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Posted on 10/10/12 at 1:10 pm to elprez00
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Then you're missing the point. There are maybe 100 people in the world that are able to compete regularly in competitive cycling.
No, I'm not missing the point. Those people are great cyclists. What they're doing isn't easy. But that alone doesn't make them great athletes.
If you read my earlier post in this thread after someone mentioned Armstrong's triathalon background (which I didn't really know about), I conceded that factoring that in, he is a great athlete, because he excelled at multiple things at an extremely high level, not just one thing.
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