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| President George W. Bush, an
avid cyclist, will test his mettle against Lance
Armstrong when the cycling superstar visits the president's Texas
ranch this
weekend. | |
President Bush is getting plenty of bike time
during his ranch vacation and next weekend he even gets to hit the trails
with seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong.
Armstrong told ABC's "This Week" on Sunday that he'll travel to
Crawford, Texas, next Saturday to ride mountain bikes with the president
around Bush's ranch.
"It's a dream scenario for me," Armstrong said. "Now that President
Bush doesn't run anymore, he rides his mountain bike fanatically. People
wonder why he stays at the ranch so long, it might be the mountain bike
trails."
It also must be a dream scenario for Bush to ride with Armstrong, a
fellow Texan and cancer survivor who last month won his most recent Tour
de France. Bush has become an avid biker in the last couple of years,
after a knee injury forced him to give up his jogging routine.
"Like a lot of baby
boomers, my knees gave out," Bush explained to seven
journalists who accompanied him on a two-hour ride Saturday. "And I
believe that mountain biking is going to be an outlet
for a lot of people
my age. "
Bush said he considers exercise good preventive medicine and "part of
living a disciplined life." He said he is trying to set an example to more
Americans to exercise.
Bush said he prefers mountain biking to road
biking, where riders often shave their legs and wear Lycra shorts. "There
are certain things that age brings with it, and not wearing the
formfitting
Lycra short is one of
them, if you know what I mean," Bush joked with the reporters.
Armstrong said although the president certainly
couldn'twhip him, he's
impressed with how seriously Bush takes his new sport.
"I know people who have ridden with him,"
Armstrong said. "I can tell you he's one very competitive guy. Very
competitive, there's no talking. A few minutes of warm up time, a littlechitchat
, then you go."
Armstrong also spent some time during the Tour de
France with Bush's former rival, 2004 Democratic presidential nominee John
Kerry, who followed in a car during the final time trial. Armstrong said
he's nottaking sides
in politics even though he's opposed to the war in Iraq.
"As a survivor, I think we
would be better spending money on an illness like cancer," he
said.
(Agencies) |
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