Eddy Merckx has a message for Lance Armstrong (Tour de France 2010)

[dahgutone]

Too bad he didn't get number 8...

[aiarghelber]

Eddy, you've got class! 

[Kokka985]

No comment over this quite ridiculous and shamefull msg x the king of doped cheaters and pathetic clowns in the history of this sport ( they say money can buy many things and many people as well ..... ) but the tilte in your video ...Eddy Merckx the best cyclist ever ??!! .....

Ah now I've got it, ossehaasje , you're Belgian so I understand ur deliberate pass on the greatest of cycling history, the one true legend and symbol himself of cycling rider, Fausto Coppi ....!

[swirly2107]

They're the stuff legends are made of, especially Eddy.

[aberlioness]

As good as Armstrong is, Merckx still beats him hands down. Armstrong has NEVER held the hour record, won all jerserys available in both Le Tour and the Giro de Italia, nor has won the great one day race Paris - Roubaix multiple times. In short the American is a bit of a one trick pony by comparison

[vamosm]

@aberlioness Such is modern cycling. Do you think someone will put up numbers in the modern NBA like WIlt Chamberlain did in the 60s? It won't happen again because of the way the sports have evolved. Both are great champions, and to compare their accolades is an exercise in futility.

[TheMichaelvn]

@aberlioness Thats also because, back in Merckx´s time, it was very people who actually had a speciality like we see today. Today it´s the fewest riders who can compete in the top, of more than one category because everybody focuses on one or two speciallitys. That wasn´t really the case back in the old days.

[CrazyCarnivalTeam]

im like bestfriends with this guys grandson...weird

[iclapson]

...or perhaps an endorsement by mr. ferrari would be more appropriate.

[iclapson]

Why hasn't anybody asked filippo simeoni to make a video like this?

[iclapson]

Why hasn't anybody asked filippo simeoni to make a video like this?

[finnrambo1]

@Bouchaneusmc you are the one who has to get real here, testing is done but he has lots of money to bribe the corrupt UCI, don't believe me think about that positive test for EPO in '99, and he's American also so it's impossible to be surprised that he's doping, oh and almost forgot remember landis's testimony?

[beesonj100]

Peds have been part of virtually every era of cycling and few in the sport are pure. The constant ripping on Lance is old and played out. He certainly has his foibles like we all do but without serious proof its not worth so much emotional energy. It just seems like Lance rents alot of space in peoples heads that feel there was a time when the sport was "pure" when it never really was.

[boonhanwee]

A legend and a perfect gentleman

[gourbi]

Eddy u grand champion un grand monsieur du tour de France son nom est grave a jamais comme anquetil bobet ect...

[Margaux177]

PHARMSTRONG

[Bouchaneusmc]

@Margaux177 Considering he has been tested more than any other athlete I'm going to have to disagree. The guy has done a great cause for not only cycling but also livestrong and its cancer research funding...

There is a commercial that he is in ""the critics want to know what I am on!?""

""I will tell you what I'm on, My bike for 8 hours a day"". You think doping is easily ""blind eyed"" in cycling. Well not anymore. So get real.

What have you done? not 7 wins and countless inspirations

[AKA1Ralph]

@Bouchaneusmc The ad says six hours a day.

[Bouchaneusmc]

@Margaux177 Tested more than a lot of teams combine.Calling him "Pharmstrong" or hinting that he did is you just admitting you are full of shit more than a septic tank. He was put in front of the FEDERAL GRAND JURY 3 times and STILL no evidence to put him behind bars. Which means... STFU and have fun in your septic tanks you jealous fucks.

[cristianriutort1]

The sport of cycling it is not the same anymore. Steroids damage a beautiful sport, one of the most for not to say the most challenging sport for a human being in the world. I feel sorry for the real cyclist's outhere that cannot have what they deserve. I hope one day they do.

[cristianriutort1]

To me Eddie have the real 5 tour d france overall wins. In the last decade or more we don't know who's doping and who's not. I even doubt about Contador, Shleck, Lance of course, I mean about every dominant cyclist outhere.

[cristianriutort1]

The real greats are in the past.

[cristianriutort1]

What is happening to you lance this year? You can't even take the wheel of levi. He's riding a lot better than you and in the past you make him look like a sissy. That makes me think about the Floyd landis statement about the use of steroids in the us postal team because he don't talk only about you, he talked about all the team including himself. To me you are not to old, to me you don't have the fucking blood cell booster anymore. Fuck the scientist or all the scientists that create the fucki

[amiedetherese]

Thanks for bringing this to us!

[itswitzmoab]

Chapeaux!!!

[SpiceBoy7UK23]

Lance & Eddy are the greatest sports personalities in history

[luismosh]

Greeeeeeeeeattt!!! Eddy rules ! So does Lance ! Up to # 8 (2)

[chiers]

Eddy rules ! So does Lance ! Up to # 8

[residentevilslave]

The Best . The godfather of cycling .Eddy Mercky always and forever our N° 1.

Hope lance gets N° 8 at Paris .Good luck Boss.

[Yarxing]

nice, go Eddy :)

[61shopper]

nice. and would not have expected anything else.

[dahveed284]

Merckx always was a classy guy! He still is.

[rocky4976]

A true champion. I saw him at the 1992 tour sitting in the back of a car and could have pestered him for a handshake but a great man needs his space. Merckx will always be numero uno.