Lance Again

[steveindenmark]

Yep...

Go on then a Film about Lance Armstrong using his name and he will not receive any money for it.

How did they manage that?

 

[mustang1]

Oh that makes it alright then.

I went to a car race once. No turbos were allowed in the engines, but all the drivers turbo'd their cars. The audience just turned a blind eye. But one racer installed a bigger turbo than everyone else but no one could figure it out until much later. All these people were annoyed that they were conned. They continued to turn a blind eye at the other drivers with smaller turbos.

 

[Citius]

Go on then a Film about Lance Armstrong using his name and he will not receive any money for it.

How did they manage that?

Because you can't trademark a person's name, and Armstrong had no involvement in the making of the film. That's how.

 

[steveindenmark]

I went to a car race once. No turbos were allowed in the engines, but all the drivers turbo'd their cars. The audience just turned a blind eye. But one racer installed a bigger turbo than everyone else but no one could figure it out until much later. All these people were annoyed that they were conned. They continued to turn a blind eye at the other drivers with smaller turbos.

Well seeing as we all think it is ok to win at any cost, we should start lobbying for a TDF for drug users. They would probably be faster than the non drug takers, there would be no expense with regards to testing and the cycling Federation need not continue to feel embarassed by handing down pixx poor sentences.

If the public who pay for these guys to earn milions by racing do not care if they take drugs or not, the sport will always be screwed.

 

[steveindenmark]

Because you can't trademark a person's name, and Armstrong had no involvement in the making of the film. That's how.

You may not be able to trademark your name in the UK but you certainly can in the USA. I would be surprised if Armstrongs legal team did not close that loophole early in his career.

 

[buggi]

They should have got Ben Eckhart to play him. He's a better looking Lance

 

[BEHMOTH66]

If you want to watch a great cycling film then Pantani is the film to watch. Will I watch this probably but not on the big screen

 

[Hip Priest]

If you want to watch a great cycling film then Pantani is the film to watch. Will I watch this probably but not on the big screen

Good old clean Pantani.

 

[BEHMOTH66]

Good old clean Pantani.

I doubt most of the major names in cycling were drug free but it is a great film

 

[Crandoggler]

You may not be able to trademark your name in the UK but you certainly can in the USA. I would be surprised if Armstrongs legal team did not close that loophole early in his career.

Mate you need to relax. Who cares? Give him $100million, it's a story about his life, cheat or not. It's not like he was a serial killer or a rapist. He cheated better than his peers, that's it. I know you like cycling, but it's not grounds to condemn the man to eternal damnation because of his previous sporting life.

I am more than happy to watch a dramatisation of a lunatic on a bike. Much like I am a fan of watching a dramatisation of a lunatic in a car (rush).

Let it go, everyone on the tour is clean as a whistle now anyway

 

[steveindenmark]

Mate you need to relax. Who cares? Give him $100million, it's a story about his life, cheat or not. It's not like he was a serial killer or a rapist. He cheated better than his peers, that's it. I know you like cycling, but it's not grounds to condemn the man to eternal damnation because of his previous sporting life.

I am more than happy to watch a dramatisation of a lunatic on a bike. Much like I am a fan of watching a dramatisation of a lunatic in a car (rush).

Let it go, everyone on the tour is clean as a whistle now anyway

Its gone

 

[Hip Priest]

Hitler and the Krays never claimed themselves to be anything that they wasn't. Regardless of what they did. Its a bad comparison, I know. But I didnt start it :0)

Yes, you can say what you like about Adolf Hitler, but at least he didn't take EPO.

 

[raleighnut]

Nah Hitler just took Synthetic Morphine.

I still think Armstrong's bit of CX riding was superb bike control.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr89ku-K2WU&feature=player_detailpage

 

[mustang1]

Well seeing as we all think it is ok to win at any cost, we should start lobbying for a TDF for drug users. They would probably be faster than the non drug takers, there would be no expense with regards to testing and the cycling Federation need not continue to feel embarassed by handing down pixx poor sentences.

If the public who pay for these guys to earn milions by racing do not care if they take drugs or not, the sport will always be screwed.

That's actually not a bad idea. (Not being sarcastic). I wonder how the public will see this. Drugs are rife in all sports (not implying its therefore OK or not OK, just saying).

 

[screenman]

I went to a car race once. No turbos were allowed in the engines, but all the drivers turbo'd their cars. The audience just turned a blind eye. But one racer installed a bigger turbo than everyone else but no one could figure it out until much later. All these people were annoyed that they were conned. They continued to turn a blind eye at the other drivers with smaller turbos.

Scrutineering must have been a bit weak, a turbo is not something you can hide.