Lance Again

[Crandoggler]

He also was meticulous in his race preparation, often repeating stages over and over. To be honest, if everyone wasn't cheating, and he wasn't, he probably would have won anyway.

 

[Crackle]

He also was meticulous in his race preparation, often repeating stages over and over. To be honest, if everyone wasn't cheating, and he wasn't, he probably would have won anyway.

That made me laugh out loud.

 

[hennbell]

He broke the rules at a time when almost everyone else was doing the same thing, That does not make it correct but explains it a little.

 

[Hip Priest]

I think it's almost certain that Lance Armstrong is a psychopath.

 

[mustang1]

Has he been stripped of all his tour titles etc?

Nah, he didn't get caught.

 

[Andrew_P]

Still stay no one else rides a bike like Armstrong did going up those HC climbs, just the style I am talking about. I still find it exciting to watch and I now he was doping to the max.

 

[Andrew_P]

Have we had these yet?

http://www.outsideonline.com/1904781/its-not-about-lab-rats

http://www.outsideonline.com/1912911/our-fight-lance-and-livestrong

They still tried to cash in on viral videos.

 

[John the Monkey]

They still tried to cash in on viral videos.

Invalidating the points in the critical articles?

Or is this just that start of some sort of charming non-sequitur thread?

(In which case, Saxophone, daschund, brocolli).

 

[Andrew_P]

Invalidating the points in the critical articles?

Or is this just that start of some sort of charming non-sequitur thread?

(In which case, Saxophone, daschund, brocolli).

Meaning business is business which is effectively what Armstrong was at the time of the doping and the subsequent attacks on anyone trying to remove his sole business income. In other words I find it ironic that a publication that spent a lot of time attacking him was prepared to give him airtime as part of Armstrong's spin to get back off the naughty step which I think it is fair to assume was a monetised decision.

 

[John the Monkey]

Meaning business is business which is effectively what Armstrong was at the time of the doping and the subsequent attacks on anyone trying to remove his sole business income. In other words I find it ironic that a publication that spent a lot of time attacking him was prepared to give him airtime as part of Armstrong's spin to get back off the naughty step which I think it is fair to assume was a monetised decision.

But not invalidating the points in the articles critical of him, though?

 

[stephec]

And the Kray twins were lovely to their dear old ma and never killed a man that didn't deserve it.

Nobody is denying the depth and bredth of doping in LAs time, nor before and to a lesser degree (hopefully) after but the rest were content to skulk in the shadows and lie/deny and change the subject.

LA garners the hate he does because of the heavy handed and vindictive manner in which he went out deliberately to brutalise and defame critics and those telling the truth about him when he didn't want the truth told.

You can be a doper without being a tulip about it. LA seemed not to realise that.

I still fancy seeing the film, I'm intrigued by that side of his nature and the seeming industrialisation of team doping that he engendered that took Festina's '98 work to a whole new level. Also that the likes of Emma O'Reilly (?) and Bassons seem willing to forgive or at least understand.

That's the difference between him and all the other dopers, for what he tried to do to Lemond he deserves all the scorn he gets.

How many of the dopers of his time have phoned up someone and threatened to reveal a secret from their childhood to try and silence them?

He met his match in Betsy Andreu though, I'd love to see her give him a good stiff kick in the knackers.

 

[stephec]

Quite right. There's a flaw in that last sentence though.

She's got bigger ones than him?

 

[blazed]

She's got bigger ones than him?

He's only got 1 ball. So knacker not knackers.

 

[Tin Pot]

It will never be a truly level field. Nature itself makes sure of that.

A good point. Two athletes putting in exactly the same training effort, and/or training program, one will be better than the other. So are we cheering their genetic luck when they cross the line first?

 

[stephec]

He's only got 1 ball. So knacker not knackers.

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