titleist82 wrote:
if Cance is ok then ASO should do a 1930 Giro-Binda trick and make this race worth watching
What is the 1930 Giro-Binda trick?
And Paris-Roubaix is ALWAYS worth watching.
Binda had dominated the Giro so many times the organizers offered to pay him the overall winner's prize money to not attend.
Binda said "give me a day to think it over"....and called the Tour organizers to say "If you pay me enough I'll ride the Tour instead of the Giro". They wet their pants and said yes. Then he called the Giro organizers back and said "sure why not".
Then he soft pedalled through the Tour other than trying - and winning - the two stages that had profiles similar to his big goal for the season : the worlds - which he also won
On his deathbed 56 years later he admitted the Tour organizers had never actually paid him the money they owed.
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"I love him, I think he's great. He's transformed the sport in so many ways. Every person in cycling has benefitted from Lance Armstrong, perhaps not financially but in some sense" - Bradley Wiggins on Lance Armstrong
titleist82 wrote:
if Cance is ok then ASO should do a 1930 Giro-Binda trick and make this race worth watching
What is the 1930 Giro-Binda trick?
And Paris-Roubaix is ALWAYS worth watching.
Binda had dominated the Giro so many times the organizers offered to pay him the overall winner's prize money to not attend.
Binda said "give me a day to think it over"....and called the Tour organizers to say "If you pay me enough I'll ride the Tour instead of the Giro". They wet their pants and said yes. Then he called the Giro organizers back and said "sure why not".
Then he soft pedalled through the Tour other than trying - and winning - the two stages that had profiles similar to his big goal for the season : the worlds - which he also won
On his deathbed 56 years later he admitted the Tour organizers had never actually paid him the money they owed.
What an awesome story Sure sounds like he could've broken some records if he felt like it!
titleist82 wrote:
if Cance is ok then ASO should do a 1930 Giro-Binda trick and make this race worth watching
What is the 1930 Giro-Binda trick?
And Paris-Roubaix is ALWAYS worth watching.
Binda had dominated the Giro so many times the organizers offered to pay him the overall winner's prize money to not attend.
Binda said "give me a day to think it over"....and called the Tour organizers to say "If you pay me enough I'll ride the Tour instead of the Giro". They wet their pants and said yes. Then he called the Giro organizers back and said "sure why not".
Then he soft pedalled through the Tour other than trying - and winning - the two stages that had profiles similar to his big goal for the season : the worlds - which he also won
On his deathbed 56 years later he admitted the Tour organizers had never actually paid him the money they owed.
Eurosport was actually filming him riding for a segment they were doing, when he fell. So there's footage of it. Not a nasty fall, but it was on the same side as the Scheldeprijs fall.
The preceding post is ISSO 9001 certified
"I love him, I think he's great. He's transformed the sport in so many ways. Every person in cycling has benefitted from Lance Armstrong, perhaps not financially but in some sense" - Bradley Wiggins on Lance Armstrong
Sure sounds like he could've broken some records if he felt like it!
