who is the only 7 times consecutive tour de france champion?
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jeannie longo, france, won the women's tour 9 consecutive times. lance only has seven.
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Lance was World Champion in 1993, he was succeeded by Luc Leblanc.\n\nA full list of World Champions including Sprint and Time Trial can be found in the link below
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Lance Armstrong\n\nHe has won the Tour de France, professional cycling's most prestigious race, a record seven consecutive times from 1999 to 2005.\n\nThis feat was accomplished several years after brain and testicular surgery, and extensive chemotherapy in 1996, to treat testicular cancer that had metastasized to his brain and lungs.\n\nThe other competitors have not suffered to the same degree.
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AS OF TODAY, 4 TIMES: \n\nAGE 23 (1999)\n• Won — WGC NEC Invitational\n• Won— WGC American Express Championship (1)\n\nAGE 24 (2000)\n• Won — WGC NEC Invitational\n\nAGE 25 (2001)\n• Won — WGC NEC Invitational\n\nAGE 26 (2002)\n• Won — WGC American Express Championship (2)\n\nAGE 27 (2003)\nWon — WGC American Express Championship (3)\nWon — WGC Accenture Match Play\n\nAGE 28 (2004)\n• Won — WGC Accenture Match Play\n\nAGE 29 (2005)\n• Won WGC NEC Invitational\n• Won WGC American Express (4)
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Baseball Reference says Walt Dropo of the '52 Tigers, with 12.\n\nTed Williams has the record for most consecutive times on base, with 16 in '57.
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Who cares?\nAll Lance Armstrong has proven is that it's easier to win the Tour d'France than it is to keep a marriage together....\nHe doesn't even come close to Eddie Merx in talent & character.
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Bjorn Borg won the French 6 times I think along with his 5 straight Wimbledon titles but the US Open eluded him, losing to Jimmy Connors twice and John McEnroe twice in the finals.  Ivan Lendl won the French 3 times, US Open 3 times, and Australia at least once but he could never take Wimbledon.  I know it wasn't exactly addressing your question but it just letting you know about other top players who had one grand slam leg elude them.
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there are men like alonso who win it once and then there are legends who keep winning like \nMichael Schumacher dude!!! he'll keep on winning
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Probably because when Eddy Mercx was winning Tours he was one of the best sprinters, best climbers and best long distance endurance cyclists around.  He also competed in numerous cycling races across Europe during each cycling season and didn't focus on just the Tour de France.  When he was competing, there also wasn't specialized training, or high tech equipment to help give a cyclist that slight edge.  It had more to do with the skill and ability of the individual.  \n\nThat said, I still think that Lance is one of the greatest cyclists to have competed, but Eddy definitely has his place with the elite in cycling history.
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Just Fontaine of France with 13 (all of them in one tournament! [Sweden 1958])
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Most Consecutive NBA Wins\nThe most consecutive NBA wins was by the Los Angeles Lakers, who won 33 games in succession from November 5, 1971 to January 7, 1972
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No one has won the us open 6 times yet. \n\nSee here:\n\nThe following golfers have won the U.S. Open more than once through 2005.\n\n4 wins:\n\nWillie Anderson: 1901, 1903, 1904, 1905 \nBobby Jones: 1923, 1926, 1929, 1930 \nBen Hogan: 1948, 1950, 1951, 1953 \nJack Nicklaus: 1962, 1967, 1972, 1980 \n3 wins:\n\nHale Irwin 1974, 1979, 1990 \n2 wins:\n\nAlex Smith: 1906, 1910 \nJohn J. McDermott: 1911, 1912 \nWalter Hagen: 1914, 1919 \nGene Sarazen: 1922, 1932 \nRalph Guldahl: 1937, 1938 \nCary Middlecoff: 1949, 1956 \nJulius Boros: 1952, 1963 \nBilly Casper: 1959, 1966 \nLee Trevino: 1969, 1971 \nAndy North: 1978, 1985 \nCurtis Strange: 1988, 1989 \nErnie Els: 1994, 1997 \nLee Janzen: 1993, 1998 \nPayne Stewart: 1991, 1999 \nTiger Woods: 2000, 2002 \nRetief Goosen: 2001, 2004
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think of it this way...hasn't there been a person in your life whom, against all odds, managed to achieve greatness?\n\nor, think about lance armstrong...stricken with cancer, lost his cycling contracts, still he decided to perservere and achieve.  It was his will...that got him back on the bike...and, then he wins 5 tour de frances....\n\nthat is kind of the idea
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Michael Schumacher has won a total of 85 races, 7 world championships, and 66 pole positions in his career. All of them are all time records.
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Je suis assez d'accord. Ivan Basso et Valverde sont le smilleurs prétendants. Toutefois, méfions nous encore une fois d'Ulrich qui peut essayer à nouveau de remporter le Tour de France ( ou son éternelle 2e place ).
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Il s'agissait de Bernard Hinault, plusieurs fois vainqueur du Tour de France. \n"Son caractère pugnace lui a valu dès le début de sa carrière le surnom de Petit blaireau, puis de Blaireau (en breton "ar broc'h"), car cet animal est réputé pour ne lâcher que rarement ses prises.
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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.