# Tour de France 2011 (spoilers)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tour-de-france-2011-spoilers/587664>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [July 2, 2011, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tour-de-france-2011-spoilers/587664 "2011-07-02T21:55:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![2sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/e47774/32.png) [@2sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2sense)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tour-de-france-2011-spoilers/587664/261 "2011-07-26T15:36:11Z")

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> [@Knorf](#):
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> Armstrong also rode races where he didn’t finish on the podium. I left them out, but they also help contradict the “single-race rider” canard.

Not if he only rode them to gain form for the Tour.

> [@Knorf](#):
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> I just rightly contest the designation of Armstrong as a “single-race rider” (in the post I responded to, as opposed to Evans.) Clearly he was more than that.

Absolutely. I was the one who favorably compared Evans’ year to a typical Armstrong year. Incorrectly, as you pointed out.

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