Lance races one race a year of which he trains almost all year for. Every other rider in the Tour does two other full tours and about 20 other races in the same year. Lance has 3 months in France in train for the tour while the other riders have two weeks. Lance's team is designed to help him win the race. ie. The pay one of the world's best hill climbers to draft lance up the Alps until he blows up. Lance then takes on the last half of the climb relatively fresh as to everyone else. Every other team racing the tour is designed to win the season points standings meaning the teams are balanced and not focused on making one guy win. Which is the ridiculous part of this whole Lance Armstrong myth. Cycling is a team sport but can anyone here name anyone on Lance's team? Didn't think so.
While Lance may be good at winning the tour and there's no question that he's a great cyclist he is not the best ever and probably not even the best right now.
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