The mithical one, gone a year ago! Could Armstrong have beaten him in 99?

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This is also another point I should have made sooner, but you've made it first. That is, if we didn't see pictures of Lance much leaner after chemo, the posts would be different. Instead, they would be saying that Lance couldn't have gone through all that without losing body mass. He would most likely have had to dope in order not to lose that weight. However, he wouldn't have won the Tour de France without losing it. So that's a story we would have never heard because he wouldn't have had the popularity for people to take notice if he hadn't won the Tour. That he lost the weight is what we expect from a cancer survivor; it's the norm--the expected outcome. That shouldn't raise eyebrows or prompt doping suspicions.