Spot the difference

Throughout his grand, 2009 comeback season we tuned-in to the Lance Armstrong Twitter feed. Nuggets of behind-the-scenes commentary grew aplenty, some requiring little between the lines reading. He proved quite a prolific 'social media' exponent - via UberTwitter, Blackberry and TwiptPic. And duly harnessed such unbridled outreach potential to great effect - with what grew to become the Lance equivalent of an illegal rave - mass rides spontaneously occuring each and every time he announced an 'impromtu' cruise of any given host city.


In due course, we became morethan familiar with the nonchalant profile icon - the man in 'leisure mode' - presumably taking-in some down time on an ocean-orientated jaunt.


But that was the 2009 Lance.

A year on, he's extricated himself from Astana, built a solid team around himself, and judging by the focussed, steel-nerved 2010 profile icon - he's taking no prisoners, looking to the podium peak, lean, mean, and ready to rumble!