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...After all, Armstrong has not just dominated their Tour the last four years, he has changed its character by introducing private jets, bodyguards and retractable barriers to a sport whose charm was once rooted in the accessibility of its champions. Armstrong's remoteness and use of personal security runs counter to the traditions of the Tour, says Jean-Pierre Bidet, cycling correspondent of L'Equipe, France's largest sports daily. "It's an event where people line the side of the road. You can reach out and touch the star riders," he says. "But Armstrong is like Michael Schumacher...
Phelps-Roper called the counter-protest “a wimpy wussy little counter-protest” of “freaks…who put Kool-Aid in their hair...
...protest drew a counter-demonstration of roughly equal numbers, as members of gay rights groups including the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF) arrived and stood on an opposite street corner...
...Irving Cummings, the openly gay pastor of Old Cambridge Baptist Church, which had helped to organize the counter-protest, said he was not worried their demonstration would give weight to the Phelps campaign...
Although an announcement about the counter-protest was sent out over the e-mail list of Harvard’s Bisexual Gay Lesbian Transgender and Supporters Alliance, no undergraduates participated in the counter-protest...