25.07.2005 16:26
Lance, the robot
A French specialist in modern training methods, Antoine Vayer, has calculated that Lance Armstrong runs his body at about 550 Watt for a period up to one hour*. Comparable power is usually only reached by athletes on much shorter exploits, like for example 400 m races, who haven't been doing it for the last days or weeks in a row.
So probabely wo is right, Lance is a robot. Lance, the human, died some years ago of prostata cancer, so they took his body and planted that cycling robot inside. His wife apparently thought he was a bit odd, ever since he left the hospital, that's why they separated. And Sheryl Crow, she probabely just gets a lot of money for starring.
Now they have to withdraw him, because everybody would get even more suspicious if he continued winning up to an age of 56.
But who are they anyway? The Bush administration, I guess, they never liked those bloody French.
*I got these numbers from todays NZZ, but Vayer published this in his book called L.A. Confidentiel.
