Talk about focus, how about this for a quote: Doctor says, "Hey, you got cancer, Eric's reply, Hey, I got trials!" Inside Bay Area: [Link]The New York Times: [Lance] Armstrong, who spoke in a telephone interview from San Francisco, said he was aware of the diagnosis because Shanteau’s coach had contacted his agent for the name of a testicular cancer specialist. Armstrong said he passed along the name of Dr. Larry Einhorn, the doctor who had treated him. [Link]
NBC Olympics: "...It bothered him a lot that he didn't make the team," Chris Davis, Shanteau's coach during his teen years, said. "Anywhere else in the world, he not only would have made the Olympic team, he would have won a medal.
"But he never whined. He never said life's not fair. He has that stick-to-it-iveness."
So a cancer diagnosis? "It's not like he called and said, 'Oh, my gosh, why me? Poor me! I was just on the verge! I had worked so hard!' There was never any of that stuff," Davis said. "It was just another bump in the road on the way to making the Olympic team. ..." [Link]
Eric Shanteau gallery at MSNBC: [Link]
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Shanteau will go down in swimming history with Jeff Farrell, one of the alltime heroes of our sport. Forty years from now, the names of most of this year's crop of Olympians will be forgotten, but if Shanteau gets the publicity he deserves for this, he'll be remembered. (Please, without checking, name the other members of the 1960 Olympic swim team beside Farrell.) Think about it: Armstrong is a national hero and most people who follow Olympic sports closely seem to think he was juicing. Shanteau is squeaky clean, gracious, and good-looking to boot (which always helps with the sponsors). I hope he makes a ton of money off this.
You are right! He is our Lance Armstrong now!
I hope TYR pays for his doctor!
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