how good was lance's french?

C'dale Girl

OMG . . . you guys have played off of each other so well here, even finishing each other's thoughts before the other . . . almost as though you, well, are all the same person??? . . . . hhhmmmmm . . .

C'dale Girl

Twin sister ESP again.

coneofsilence

Do you sleep with lance?
How could a non dictionary reading lance beat someone who was caught reading a dictionary. It doesn't make sense.

Crankyfeet

Lance's voice box was 30% bigger than the average man's.

whiteboytrash

Lance used to use a higher speaking rate with French which improved his speaking skills by 27%. Other cyclists should have done the same. Ullrich was always too lazy to speak French at the same speed as Lance.

Crankyfeet

Lance also had his trademark move when the competition was close. He would use "The Stare". Remember in 2001 at the Tourney de French. He looked like he was down and out. And there was that guy leading the competition, Jan Ullrich, who was his major rival. And Lance got up for his final recital and just smoked a French poem out with perfect annunciation, and he gave Ully seated in the audience "The Stare". And Ully just went to pieces in his final recital.

He was a tough French speaker was Lance. Probably the best ever at the Tourney de French.

TheDarkLord

Because his larynx was operated upon, he had to take some drugs to be able to vocalize some French accents.

thoughtforfood

"What dictionary was he using, he was out with the Texans speaking French 6 hours a day, what dictionary are you using?"

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Crankyfeet

And he had the best voice coach in the world... Chris Carmicrophone.

nns1400

I heard he slept in a special tent that played French all night so he could learn the accent while sleeping....

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thoughtforfood

He once went after an Italian who suggested that he worked with a dictionary publisher, and spoke French so fluently that he forced the guy back to speaking only his native Italian. Lance always promised to speak Italian once, and it was rumored that he was practicing the Language to help his fellow orators for Italy's big competition, but he realized that within his team or orators, he was the best, and couldn't bring himself to not speak Italian better than anyone else, so he didn't go.

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Crankyfeet

And he probably had the most dictionary tests of any French speaking contestant in the history of the sport.

coneofsilence

He has a biography "It's not about the book"

Crankyfeet

And when he was going out with Sheryl Crow he was trying to get her interested in French. She spent so much time practicing her French that she didn't didn't write one frickin' song the whole time they were together.

Sheryl contracted cancer though... so understandably Lance dumped her straight away after finding out... but nicely. He is considerate.