JuanLobbe
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The "haters" thing is really boring isn't it? Tediously transparent attempt to avoid engaging with the (important) issues.
Blimey what did he do - murder someone? Or was it one of those things that only matters if you care about sport, but is completely inexplicable to anyone who doesn't...
I read half of one of his books once (it was froma charity shop and had been misbound, so that it got half way through and repeated). Thought he seemed a bit big headed myself.
Scroll back a bit - there's a bit more to it, and good reasons why the people you deride as "jobsworths" would be wary of being seen to extend special treatment to Radioshack.He wore the wrong jersey!
Sod all to do with sport.
Everything to do with people who fit the 'jobsworth' format of human!!
The "haters" thing is really boring isn't it? Tediously transparent attempt to avoid engaging with the (important) issues.
Not at all, it's just being bored with the same old arguments of which can't be backed up by evidence...
I remember a football team changing kit halfway through a match and not getting as much stick as Lance has got.
Call the jobsworths if you like, but jerseys are a big issue in the TdF
ONCE used always to have a yellow kit, but had to ride in pink so they would not be confused with the yellow jersey.
Think about it, you are in the top ten of the GC and you fancy jumping a few places by staging a breakaway. The guys in the places ahead of you know to keep an eye on you, but you change your jersey, hide in the pack, then do a breakaway and gain time on them
Obviously this is a different situation, but the rules are there for a reason, and have to be applied across the board.
As others have said, had Armstrong spoken with the organizers beforehand, informed the entire peloton, and signed in wearing the new jerseys, then it may not have been an issue at all
Which one of you fan boys is this:
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If I didnt know better, i'd say me