I Hated The Competition

With little over a week left before the start of the 2006 Le Tour de France, it is hard not to wonder about the man who was the Tour for so many years. Lance Armstrong is a man who "lived for" the Tour and for many Americans was the Tour. Retiring after his 7th Tour win last year, which was sorrowfully followed by allegations of doping in 1999, he looks back upon those years now:

"I don't miss it at all. I miss the training. I miss the team atmosphere. I miss my guys. But the last couple of years I would even say I hated racing. The only peaceful times were when I was at training camps, alone or with a few team mates,
or at the races, in the hotel room, at the dinner table with my guys. That's the stuff I really love. I won't miss the Tour.”

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