Eddy Merkx won everything all season long, Lance only won the tour each year - but SEVEN times? So who do you think is better?
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I'm sorry, but Lance Armstrong can't even hold a candle to Eddy Merckx and Lance has said that himself.  What did Eddy Merckx do in his illustrious career:\n\n11 Grand Tour wins (Lance has just 7)\n  - 5 tour de france wins (lance has 7)\n  - 5 giro de italia wins (lance has 0)\n  - 1 vuelta a espana win (lance has 0)\n\n*NOTE: THE ONLY PERSON TO EVER WIN ALL 3 GRAND TOURS IN 1 YEAR!\n\n4 world championship (lance has just 1)\n7 Milan San Remo wins (lance has 0)\n5 Liege Baston Liege wins (lance has 0)\n3 Paris Roubaix wins (lance has 0)\n3 Wallonia win (lance has 1)\n2 Tour of Belgium wins (lance has 0)\n2 Tour de Lombardy wins (lance has 0)\n1 Tour de Suisse (lance has 1)\n\n*NOTE: HAS ALSO WON ALL 5 OF THE ONE DAY CLASSICS\n\nHe also is the ONLY person to win all 3 jerseys at the Tour de France in 1 year.  \n\nAlso, despite Lance winning the Tour de France 7 consecutive times, he has not matched Merckx's 34 stage wins (22 for lance) and Merckx has 96 days in the yellow jersey, including his first win where he won it on day 1 and held it to the finish.\n\nAnother interesting note is that Merckx stopped riding the tour after his 7th start because Tour de France organizers asked him not too because they wanted to see somone else win.  \n\nAlso, Merckx who was competing for his 6th tour win was attacked by a French spectator while wearing the yellow jersey and then later was involved in an accident that broke his jaw.  Many people feel he would have won his 6th had that not been the case.\n\nWhile I do not mean do discredit Lance and the things he did, infact the fact that Lance returned from cancer to ride so well is miraculous.  But with that being said, just because someone came back to ride a bike after cancer doesn't make him the greatest cyclist in the world.  In fact, in Lance Armstrong's autobiography he says that if he had not contracted cancer there is no way he could have ever won the Tour de France because his body shape was not geared for the climbing demands of the tour.\n\nMerckx was by far the most dominant cyclist the world has ever seen.  He could win classics, sprint, and win the grand tours, a testiment to his astonishing 35% career win rate, and includes OVER 500 wins.  Long live le cannibal.
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Try the Tour de France...Lance seems to have no problem with it.....
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The tour de France in cycling. Of course!!!!!
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Overall Gatlin is better, at the moment, maybe Powell. \n\nWe'll know for sure after next year's World Championships and of course, Beijing '08.\n\nEspecially at the Olympics, winning the gold medal irrespective of time, is the highest pinnacle for a sprinter.
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If there were ever a marked man it was Lance.  If the European media could have caught him they would have.  He did not make friends or endear himself to anyone.  And also consider that if he got caught he would have lost a lot more than just his job.  He would have lost his credibility (where is the lance armstrong foundation without him?).  \nWhatever he might have done he would have had to be absolutely sure he couldn't get caught.\nIf he did anything he was the most secretive and effective doper out there.
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Stilgar...hands down.  He was BORN a Fremen.  Gurney is an off-worlder and wanna-be.
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well couldn't understand exactly all of the words , but as long as i understood you ask Ronaldo is better or Ronaldinho? if its your question i think cant compare them because their positions of play aren't same but totally Ronaldinho is in a better form at the moment.
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Pujols all the way. You can talk all you want about Derrek Lee, but he hasn't gotten that team into the playoffs. Albert's actually a proven winner, and he finished ahead of Lee in quite a few categories last year. And Albert doesn't take steroids, he's always been that big. He didn't suddenly put on 15 pounds and have his head get really big.
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i think rossi s gonna win in the straigths coz a 1000cc bike s got more accleration than an f1 car.\nbut in the curves,shecanes,hair pins shumi s sure to win.
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Lance has never ridden RAAM.  The only cyclist to have ridden both the RAAM and the Tour De France is Jonathan Boyer.
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it depends on what you mean by "better"... in the clutch, i would take reggie miller over anyone but mj, kareem, bird, nd magic...regardless of when, where, or against whom...steve nash i think will prove to be the better overall player by the end of his career, in stats, mvp's, and titles; well, at least in the first 2, i'm suddenly sensing a shift of power in the nba (and nhl as well), from the western-dominance of the late-90s to early 2000s to a new order of eastern supremacy--can you say lebron nd the cavs vs. chauncey billups and the pistons vs. d-wade and the heat for the next decade???  i see the writing on the wall... but, back to topic; steve nash will end his career with better stats and more mvp's than reggie miller, and will prove to have made his team better, but reggie is and will always be one of the best players EVER in the clutch
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Either's good...I'd have to say George Strait, though. NASCAR's gonna be around ALOT longer than George will be. I'd get him to George while George is still touring. (No rumors that he won't be after 2007, but he IS getting older...)\n\nIf you pick a NASCAR race, I suggest a bigger one, like Daytona (Feb OR July), Talladega, or Brickyard.
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Lance.....I dumped my wife and kids and then dumped my girlfriend when she got cancer....armstrong.....what a hero, what a man, what a jerk!\n\nLance Armstrong is a bad father, a bad husband, a womanizer, abandoned his children and people think he's great because he won the Tour 7 times.  The measure of man's greatness is not how many athletic events he wins or how many yellow braclets people wear in honor of his causes.  The measure of a man's greatness is his character.  Ask his children if they think Lance is a great man.\n\nTo "Live Strong" is to do what is right, to be a husband, a father and live a life of character.  Lance didn't overcome cancer, the doctor's and the medicine he took overcame cancer.
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I am pulling for Floyd Landis.  He is having an excellent season having the Tour of Cali and Georgia in his win column.  Those two races came early enough in the season for him to be ready for the TdF.  He is an excellent TT and can climb hills.  Those two skills make you a contender in the TdF.
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Well, Kelly Clarkson has been the most sucessful (sold the most albums, won a Grammy) and I think she's the best.  The worst would either be Ruben or Fantasia- mostly because neither one of them have had any sucess after the show (and Clay should've won.  Season 3 sucked all around, so Fantasia really was the best- I mean, she was up against Diana Degramo, for God's sake!).  Sorry to go on a rant...my boss and I talk about Idol every other night ;)
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Tony Stewart, because he doesn't take sh_t from the other drivers. It seems like other drivers dislike his style of driving and he doesn't care. It's his race to win.
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LANCE ARMSTRONG!! after he had cancer, he started his own charity for people with cancer. Plus he ran in the New York City Marathon today!