07/20: Legendary Landis
Posted by: Jason
Pardon the momentary detour from baseball, but today Floyd Landis exhibited one of the 5 greatest individual performances in at least the last 50 years of American sports.
Yesterday he was the disgraced favorite, cracking on the side of a mountain in the 90+ degree heat and spectacularly falling from favorite to goat. He went from leader to 11th place in pathetic fashion.
In a display of rage combined with world class athletic ability, today Landis rode away from the field and conquered 4 massive mountain climbs in searing heat (by himself!!) to close the overall gap from 7 minutes to a mere 30 seconds. His performance today, after yesterday's dud, was at least a 750-1 shot.
Superhuman. Herculean. Keep the yellow jersey in the US, Floyd!!!
Yesterday he was the disgraced favorite, cracking on the side of a mountain in the 90+ degree heat and spectacularly falling from favorite to goat. He went from leader to 11th place in pathetic fashion.
In a display of rage combined with world class athletic ability, today Landis rode away from the field and conquered 4 massive mountain climbs in searing heat (by himself!!) to close the overall gap from 7 minutes to a mere 30 seconds. His performance today, after yesterday's dud, was at least a 750-1 shot.
Superhuman. Herculean. Keep the yellow jersey in the US, Floyd!!!
