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Article: THE CHASE IS ON SATURDAY ARMSTRONG IS FAVORITE TO WIN TOUR DE FRANCE.(SPORTS)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- July 4, 2002
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Byline: Paula Parrish Scripps Howard News Service
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Someday, Lance Armstrong will phone home.
He will return to whatever planet he's from, leaving us with a cycling legacy that no ordinary Homo sapiens of Darwinian evolution possibly could have accomplished.
In the macho parlance of the Tour de France, it's an honor - or a curse - to be called an ''alien'' or an ''extraterrestrial'' by other top riders.
But it's used only when referring to the best of the best. Miguel Indurain was called an extraterrestrial by more than one of the guys he blew away on his way to winning the Tour de France a record five ...