Difficile d'imaginer un cycliste américain réussir tout ce qu'Armstrong, dopé on le sait, a été en mesure d'accomplir, mais sortir de l'ombre du héros brisé pour redonner au cyclisme ses lettres de noblesse représente tout un défi pour l'athlète de 21 ans. Tout comme Lance c'est un fou du vélo.
"It’s only a coincidence, though, that Dombrowski, perhaps the sport’s brightest phenom, begins his pro cycling career in Nice. This is the same city in which Lance Armstrong lived and trained shortly after recovering from cancer, and just before winning his first two Tours de France. Today Armstrong is the sport’s dark ghost, his systematic use of performance-enhancing drugs, his lying about it and his ultimate forced admission hovering over everything. And Dombrowski is the young cyclist who could help lead the embattled sport from out of its self-inflicted wreckage, but only by pedaling his way out of Armstrong’s long shadow.
A full generation removed, Dombrowski keeps moving, zipping past a bakery, past a closed tattoo parlor, past the old men on the sidewalk smoking cigarettes and sipping espressos. Racing from the glistening Mediterranean toward the snow-capped mountains ahead, Dombrowski glides through narrow streets above the French Riviera, a beach vacation behind the young rider, a weekend ski trip up ahead. When the narrow road becomes steep — when the ride looks more like an unforgiving wall than an incline — he pedals harder, climbing furiously uphill.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/sports/wp/2013/02/27/cyclings-road-forward/?hpid=z6
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