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2006-07-22 Europe

Floyd Landis, Your 2006 Tour de France Winner!

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Posted by Raj 2006-07-22 11:40|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 FWIW, I double checked the TdF website, and there's been 3 American winners (not that I needed to, just a sanity check):

LeMond - 1986, 1989, 1990
Armstrong - 1999 - 2005
Landis - 2006

Also - Bobby Julich made the podium in 1998 (3rd), so maybe that was the fourth they're talking about.

Posted by Raj 2006-07-22 11:56|| 2006-07-22 11:56|| Front Page Top

#2 This is embarrasing. First a man with cancer and one ball wins seven times in a row. Now a crippled man who will undergo hip replacement surgery wins. What's next, a parapalegic?

Posted by ed 2006-07-22 12:40|| 2006-07-22 12:40|| Front Page Top

#3 Huzzah. Congratulations Floyd and team.

*smirk*

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2006-07-22 12:46|| 2006-07-22 12:46|| Front Page Top

#4 Congratulations, Monsieur Floyd!
Please to step ovar hear and to piss in thees tanker truck.

Posted by tu3031 2006-07-22 12:51|| 2006-07-22 12:51|| Front Page Top

#5 Hummm -- this is even better than Lance winning an 8th time! And he will be there tomorrow -- with big smiles, I'll bet.

Posted by Sherry">Sherry 2006-07-22 18:21|| 2006-07-22 18:21|| Front Page Top

#6 And remember, you have to do it while the French on the sidelines throw blood-sucking snails at you.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-07-22 20:04|| 2006-07-22 20:04|| Front Page Top

#7 You know, if you people get just a little better, we'll start sending our HEALTHY riders over to compete in this thing.

Has anyone been following this closely. Are the French as livid about this as I hope they are?

Posted by Elmomotle Sneack6231 2006-07-22 20:19|| 2006-07-22 20:19|| Front Page Top

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