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June 6th, 2009
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That’s right, Lance is smiling himself silly these days contemplating an opportunity to one-up the skinny spaniard by shifting fields of play at the last moment. Instead of a little intra-familial cycling showdown at the Tour next month, Lance is challenging Alberto to belly up to the table and clasp hands.
Bookmakers in England, seeing the accompanying photo, have given Lance 100:1 odds to beat the younger challenger. If Lance were to re-break his collar bone shortly before the contest, the odds will fall to 99:1.
Luckily for us, we caught up with Alberto as he prepared for the launch of tomorrow’s Dauphine classic and asked him what he thought about all this. To which Mr. Contador giving pause, responded, “Como?”
That’s exactly what we were thinking, Alberto, what the hell?
Shortly thereafter we tracked down Sir Lance in the hotel gym hefting some serious dumbells, his shirtless upper-body massive pumped and glistening in sweat, his spindly legs wobbling with strain, and he explained it this way: “Well, all that training I did to get back into cycling gave me these real buff arms, which the chicks dig, you know, but turns out they aren’t all that useful for bike racing. You might have noticed how I got thrashed by all those skinny boys down in Italy a couple weeks ago. Chris Carmichael warned me about working out with A-rod, but I didn’t listen. Anyhoo, after the Giro it became pretty clear there’s no way I’m going to beat ‘ol Berto up Ventoux, but I bet I can sure whup his ass arm-rasslin!”
Clever move, in our view.
We’re putting our money on Lance to win the arm-wrestle, which hopefully will make him feel better about the fact he can look forward to serving as Contador’s wet nurse next month in France.
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