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Originally Posted by creekster
90% is a too high.
The story of the guy he chased down is a little more involved than that, I believe. The rider had been accused by Lance of being a cheat and so the rider caused an actiojn to be instituted against lance in the courts (their system is different than ours) and this pissed Lance off. So he then woudl not allow the break to leave until this guy was out of it. This is from memory, however, and so it could be wrong. Either way, it shows that Lance was Le Patron in the way Hinault and others had been in the past. There is no Patron this year. It also shows that Lance is a warrior,as you say. It only tangentially suggests that he was a druggie, however.
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Your memory echoes mine.
Lance may have cheated, but if he did so, he may have done so in training and then backed off during racing. Perhaps all racers dope during training but some carry it on into race season.
Lance was competitive as hell, and often that transfers to being a jerk. I can see that in him.