No, not you. You'd never reiterate.
Seriously, folks unfamiliar with pro bike racing know that Lance was considered a short course guy and sprinter, pre-cancer, certainly not a TdF contender. While he didn't look like Trent, he certainly tended more towards that body build than the Lance everyone became familiar with later. In fact, if he didn't have such distinctive facial features, you'd swear it wasn't the same person. He was a much thicker person. Some French publications (they generally belong down in the pig pen, with the rest of the swine) said that his chemotherapy actually helped his progress. I'll never know how much EPO helped his career. I tend to buy his argument that it was a drug-soaked sport and I no longer follow it. I do know he would never had the success he had without remaking his body into a different image, with much lower mass and a much higher spin rate in hill climbing. IOW, I agree with you. I think Lance, drugs aside, realized he couldn't compete in the longer races with a thicker, more muscular body...