Can Lance get a 7th straight Tour win?

[LongtimeDawgfan]

After todays time trial Lance looks to be in great shape just 2 seconds away from the yellow jersey.
How about Dave Zabriskie of Salt Lake City.....in yellow in his first Tour. Could he be the next great American cyclist?

[KayBee]

I wouldn't be surprised if Lance isn't holding back a little. If I remember correctly he's never had the lead before the sixth or seventh stage (I could be wrong though).

[TechDawgFan]

I don't think that was holding back. He passed Jan Ulrick with 3K left to go and was DEFINATELY making a statement! He has a minute on Jan and passed him for what was believed to be the first time he has EVER been passed in a TT. Lance is strong, no doubt about it. Question is will he be able to endure the race through the mountains again.

TDF

[Dawgbitten]

Yes. That dude was flying today! Jan is in great shape and that had to be a tough blow to his confidence to get passed in such fashion.

A 53 second lead on the main field after the first day's 11.5 mile TT. That is pretty significant. To understand how significant that chunk of time is only one minute seperates the third place guy from the guy in 45th place.

Kaybee, He threw down the gaunlet at last years opening TT as well. I think he came in second that day as well.

[DallasDog]

If he performs like years past in the mountains, and this team is a strong as it seems. Any and every second he gets on the main threats in the lowlands could be nigh insurmountable come the mountains.

[nadB]

Odds favor Lance. I'm putting Vinokourov ahead of Ullrich at this point in time. Maybe Basso, too ?? I LOVE THIS RACE ! ! !

GO, LANCE ARMSTRONG ! ! ! !
2005 Tour De France Betting Odds

Lance Armstrong will attempt to win a record 7th straight "Tour de France” in this his final appearance. Can he do it? You decide!

ODDS TO WIN 2005 TOUR DE FRANCE Denis Menchov +6600
Alberto Contador +6600
Damiano Cunego +5000
Yaroslav Popovych +4000
Floyd Landis +4000
Roberto Heras +3300
Levi Leipheimer +3300
Santiago Botero +2500
Iban Mayo +2500
Andreas Kloden +2000
Alexander Vinokourov +1000
Ivan Basso +600
Jan Ullrich +250
Lance Armstrong -140

[DocMarvin362]

ok, rephrasing... sorry for making it sound rude. And all this is my opinion, feel free to have you own and disagree.

Speaking from the casual fans perspective, the general public here in America won't care who wins, who competes.. (unless they wreck). Even this year, when SportsCenter starts talking about it, that just means that it's time for me to walk away and grab another beer. Glad to see that he's going to win again.. but seriously.. did anyone have a doubt?

I see cycling kinda like golf.... it SUCKS on TV.. it's not that great in person.. but playing/riding is a BLAST! I personally can't stand sports/events where one person is the star, and nobody else matters. I will be proud of Armstrong, but i won't care next year, I won't care this afternoon when they announce how much he won by. If someone comes out saying that Lance was their inspiration for fighting their cancer, i'm cheer up and down. But that's all.

I LOVE football (NFL and Tech). It's the only sport to where you can't focus on one player and the rest of the teams doesn't matter. Easiest to watch, hardest to master.
The NBA sucks.. except for Shaq, Duncan, Garnett, and a few others. I don't care about the regular season.. it's about 15 - 20 games too long. The playoffs are slightly more interesting, but they take 2 months.. so i'm tired of it by the conference finals.
Baseball is still my love, but the regular season (once again) is way too long. i'd love to see it become like 125 game season, and then add 4 teams to the wildcard spots, that way (in theory) 2 teams from each division would have a chance. Plus the Sox and Yanks are way to publicized. Love to watch it in person, love to have it on in the background while i play my computer games and chat on bbb.
NASCAR sucks the worse. Just a dumb reason to watch TV... unless you have lots of wrecks. I hate the concept of individual winners, but then they have 17 cars on the track that all have the same owner, so that makes them a "team". Plus the stoopid pansies always yelling at each other into the cameras.... just overgrown Soap opera stars with cars.
Hockey..... still undecided on this one. I LOVE watching the Mudbugs, but it's mostly because of the crowd, the harrassing of the players, and the cheers. I have no clue what in the world is going on there, and it's really hard to follow the puck.
Any other sports i can give my opinion on?

[TYLERTECHSAS]

I personally can't stand sports/events where one person is the star, and nobody else matters. I will be proud of Armstrong, but i won't care next year, I won't care this afternoon when they announce how much he won by. If someone comes out saying that Lance was their inspiration for fighting their cancer, i'm cheer up and down. But that's all.

I LOVE football (NFL and Tech). It's the only sport to where you can't focus on one player and the rest of the teams doesn't matter. Easiest to watch, hardest to master.
The NBA sucks.. except for Shaq, Duncan, Garnett, and a few others. I don't care about the regular season.. it's about 15 - 20 games too long. The playoffs are slightly more interesting, but they take 2 months.. so i'm tired of it by the conference finals.
Baseball is still my love, but the regular season (once again) is way too long. i'd love to see it become like 125 game season, and then add 4 teams to the wildcard spots, that way (in theory) 2 teams from each division would have a chance. Plus the Sox and Yanks are way to publicized. Love to watch it in person, love to have it on in the background while i play my computer games and chat on bbb.
NASCAR sucks the worse. Just a dumb reason to watch TV... unless you have lots of wrecks. I hate the concept of individual winners, but then they have 17 cars on the track that all have the same owner, so that makes them a "team". Plus the stoopid pansies always yelling at each other into the cameras.... just overgrown Soap opera stars with cars.
Hockey..... still undecided on this one. I LOVE watching the Mudbugs, but it's mostly because of the crowd, the harrassing of the players, and the cheers. I have no clue what in the world is going on there, and it's really hard to follow the puck.
Any other sports i can give my opinion on?

I find myself in total agreement with the above. I am cheering for Lance to win his swan song of course.