The Tour de France is on.

Lance Armstrong and his team are favored to win. I've never paid much attention to the tour until i read Lance Armstrong's book last year...It's Not About the Bike. It's one of my favorite books. It's about the tour but it's also about how Lance beat one of the worst possible cancer scenarios you could be diagnosed with... i believe he had a 3% chance of surviving altho they never told him that at the time. Since then he's won the tour 3 times and is going for his 4th this year. It's just an amazing story.

Daily Report Phil Liggett

2002 Tour de France Preview
7/1/02

I can find no one who does not think Lance Armstrong will win the Tour! What a terrible burden if you are Lance Armstrong. Sure, on paper, Lance has never been better with wins in the Midi Libre and the Dauphine Libere. His build-up preferences this year, compared to victory in the Tour of Switzerland last year.

He also has the best US Postal Team ever around him. The team has been the story this year, and with wins in their own right and without Lance, they will scare the pants off the rest of the field.

Lance himself will handle the time trials and should win his fourth Tour de France. After he rid himself of cancer, he shocked by winning his first Tour in 1999. He returned to confirm his feat a year later, and last year, made up over half an hour to conquer the field for a third time.

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