ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
What - AGAIN! Did I miss something important the first time round?
Thoughts on Lance Armstrong. ?
- Thread starter Billy Wizz
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Pro Tour Punditry
Guru
If you look at Armstrong's pre-cancer Tour results you'll get a better sense of his ability - although still not truly accurate as he doped before his cancer.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I found the first book quite inspiring at the time but a few pages into the second book, and I was already thinking "There is definitely something wrong with this man ..."!
Gravity Aided
Legendary Member
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- Land of Lincoln
The Cold War has started up again? I wondered what was jump-starting the economy. Besides the quantitative easing. Let's have Lance Armstrong race a Russian somewhere.
snorri
Legendary Member
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- East coast, up a bit.
Yes, but this wasn't the annual village bike race where the winner is presented with an iced cake by the local baker.
I rather think you are one of those needing to "get some perspective".
hoopdriver
Guru
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- East Sussex
Hmmm... not been following the news from Ukraine, the sanctions vs Russia, the Russian subs and planes testing EU air and sea space?
hoopdriver
Guru
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- East Sussex
It's still a bike race...Yes, but this wasn't the annual village bike race where the winner is presented with an iced cake by the local baker.
I rather think you are one of those needing to "get some perspective".
The world has much greater challenges and problems than some guy who cheated at a bike race.
So no you're the guy who needs perspective
Pro Tour Punditry
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hoopdriver
Guru
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- East Sussex
Excuse me - in a world filled with monumental problems, from Ebola to ISIS to climate change - you think the big issue is some guy who cheated at a bike race some years ago? Really? And everyone else needs perspective? Grow up.
Smokin Joe
Legendary Member
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- Bare headed cyclist, Smoker
And how is not talking about sport going to solve them?
hoopdriver
Guru
- Location
- East Sussex
I never suggested not talking about sport, only that enlarging Lance Armstrong into an almost pantomime villian upon whose shoukders rest the sins of the world shows a laughable lack of perspective. The guy cheated at bicycle races some years ago and he appears to be a thoroughly unlikeable character. But the world - and sport - has bigger problems . He's yesterday's man.
Smokin Joe
Legendary Member
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- Bare headed cyclist, Smoker
For those who follow the sport his story is very much alive and relevant. Hence this thread running to six pages and many more in the racing section.
The world wide total is probably less than a 1/1000th of what has been written about Geoff Hurst's third goal in the World Cup final and that was nearly fifty years ago.
snorri
Legendary Member
- Location
- East coast, up a bit.
everything can be simplified, including multi-million dollar fraud
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