BVC-CHAT Eddy and the Americans

[Laura Kennedy]

So what is he trying to say about Americans?  That we're fat and 
complacent and party too much???

Eddy 'believes' in LA
Cycling legend Eddy Merckx says only an accident will keep Lance 
Armstrong from winning a seventh Tour crown.

"I don't see anyone beating him. Except for an accident, I sure he will 
win again," Merckx told the Belgian press ahead of his 60th birthday 
Friday. "I rode with him recently and he's very motivated by the idea 
of winning a seventh Tour."

Merckx said it was cancer that transformed Armstrong into the best Tour 
rider of his generation. Without it, Merckx said Armstrong might not 
have ever won a Tour, let alone a record six.

"With his sickness, he lost weight which helped in the mountains. Since 
then, he's lived 200 percent for cycling, but he wasn't like that 
before his illness," he said. "I remember before the world's in Oslo 
that he won, I had seen him with his mother drinking a beer. Before, he 
was an athlete who lived like an American. After that, he became 
extremely professional."

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