Letters from Europe: Lance Armstrong wins Tour de France number 7

Despite the best efforts of the French rail system to deter me (with a 6 hour train ride that was supposed to have lasted less than 3 hours), I have posted my first impressions along with some photos and a brief movie from the final stage of the Tour de France today, at my weblog, Random Fate.

I hope to post more impressions of the race and the day surrounding it later, after I get some sleep, because it’s almost 3:00AM here!

(TMV NOTES: This post is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED so click on that link!)

UPDATE: The AP notes that Armstrong is am athlete who ends his career with a kind of storybook ending:

It was the end of Armstrong’s amazing career, and in retiring a winner he achieved a rare feat in sports — going out on top. He said his decision was final and that he walks away with no regrets.

“I’m finished,” Armstrong told a motorcycle-borne TV reporter as he rode a victory lap of the Champs-Elysees, waving to the crowds and accompanied by another rider waving the Stars and Stripes.