Lance Armstrong... greatest doper there was or ever will be

This is what Armstrong sees in his nightmares, big Greg fucking gunning for him.

You can say what you want about money, politics, motivation, attitude, personality, style; cycling (like just about every sport now) was more poetic **when people weren't dangling a big fuckoff bag of cash over the finish line, **where you'll be asked model for some god awful product that pollutes half the planet, paid to use some equipment made in some Eastern sweatshop by five year olds that have already lost half their limbs through industrial accidents, then whisked off on your first book signing tour before being forced to bribe your way round the sport to sustain your image.

You do realise that things like the Tour de France have been dangling a big fuckoff wad of cash over the finish line for over 100 years now, right?

"It was to have been a five-week race, from 1 June to 5 July, with an entry fee of 20 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_franc. These conditions attracted very few cyclists: one week before the race would start, only 15 competitors had signed up. Desgrange then rescheduled the race from 1 July to 19 July, increased the total prize money to 20,000 francs, reduced the entry fee to 10 francs and guaranteed at least five francs a day to the first 50 cyclists in the classification.[6] After that, 79 cyclists signed up for the race, of whom 60 actually started the race.[7]"

"With the prize money that he won in 1903, which totalled 6,075 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_franc"]francs[/ame],[[5]](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1903_Tour_de_France#cite_note-mdc1903-640,000 in 2006 values[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1903_Tour_de_France#cite_note-Gann-4)) Garin later bought a gas station, where he worked for the rest of his life.[5]"

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