We're none of us as young as we used to be, but I was horrified to catch this news report on French TV, courtesy of Big Tex's Twitter. Towards the end, a bald fat man appears -- looking for all the world like the missing third Mitchell brother.
Turns out to be suave, sophisticated two-time Tour winner Laurent Fignon, the only man in the 20th century to make a ponytail look stylish.
The film itself appears to be a reasonably balanced account of Armstrong's latest travails with the French authorities, but it's overshadowed by the shock of seeing the Professeur in such an advanced state of old codgerdom.
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