Going Postal

[MTK]

I hate to rain on the Armstrong parade but I was listening to Mike and Mike in the morning once and they had a cycling expert on. The guy said that Armstrong is not all that he's cracked up to be simply because he basically only rides in the Tour De France.

He doesn't compete in many other major races and when he does he picks races that are similar to the Tour for training purposes. The 'expert' (forget his name) made the analogy to Tiger Woods and if he only played in the Masters every year and stayed away from all the other majors.

He said that Armstrong is very good, but not in the all-time greats of cyclists.

It was an interesting point of view to hear. Especially when he made the Tiger analogy. Don't get me wrong I think he's a great athlete, but from the sounds of it he picks the biggest race of the year and focuses all his energy on just that one race.

Would we all think Tiger is the great golfer he is if he just played in one tournament a year? Probably not.