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It's not that the crowd numbers or even the estimated benefit to the economy is wrong, it's that it's very unlikely that the presence of Armstrong had anywhere near the effect on these things that is being claimed.
Of course, Armstrong loves that people fall for the hype over and over, as it makes him rich, but the biggest problem the sport has is the continuing erroneous belief that some riders are bigger than the sport, and therefore too big to fail.