37-year old Lance Armstrong is now getting in on the new trend Brett Favre set. Armstrong says he is "100 percent" sure that he will be competing in the 2009 Tour de France. He then states his reasoning behind it, or implied it:
"Look at the Olympics. You have a swimmer like Dara Torres. Even in the 50-meter [freestyle] event, the 41-year-old mother proved you can do it," Armstrong said in a story excerpt. "The woman who won the marathon [Constantina Tomescu-Dita, of Romania] was 38. Older athletes are performing very well. Ask serious sports physiologists and they'll tell you age is a wives' tale."
Apparently he is trying to find his "atman," or essential self, in an ahimsa way by following the Four Noble Truths. Oh wait, World History homework, sorry.
Okay, that was lame.
But anyway, he is not signed with any teams as of now, but does he really need to be? He could be a team all by himself, he's certainly good enough (if there are certain rules as to this, please let me know).
If he doesn't win this race, it in no way affects his legacy or his mark on one of the most successful (seven Tour wins in a row) and influential (check out the amount of money he has raised for cancer awareness) athletes of our time, or at least my lifetime.
He definitely has a chance to win, and I'm not sure if you can pick against him. It's not like any of us know who else would (I shouldn't generalize, but ...)
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