“Jake, why are you sitting in the front? I thought you liked it in the rear.”

— Lance Armstrong

On stage comment to Jake Gyllenhaal, who has been recently nominated for an Oscar for Brokeback Mountain, at the ESPY Awards (16 July 2006)

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professional cyclist from the USA 1971

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