lance's next move

[nafod]

My recommendation. Start a racing league where enhancement is legal. Anything goes. Only requirement is transparency. We want too know what works.

[Shafpocalypse Now]

Nope, he's gonna save biking from doping

[Kraj 2.0]

How about C) Go live in a tropical paradise somewhere with his millions of $

[Pinky]

My recommendation. Start a racing league where enhancement is legal. Anything goes. Only requirement is transparency. We want too know what works.

That would require racing and training in a country where the enhancement was legal.

[Batboy2/75]

It obviously involves some long term plan to rehabilitate his rep. Kind of pathetic, since it has to be all about fame and not money. Considering Lance's big money days behind him.

Only a true narcissist would need to go on the Oprahs show to do a tell all. Lance should have retired to tropic island where he would fuck super models, ride his bikes, and tell the rest of the world to go fuck themselves.

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[kreator]

Crossfit Games

[DARTH]

It obviously involves some long term plan to rehabilitate his rep. Kind of pathetic, since it has to be all about fame and not money. Considering Lance's big money days behind him.

Only a true narcissist would need to go on the Oprahs show to do a tell all. Lance should have retired to tropic island where he would fuck super models, ride his bikes, and tell the rest of the world to go fuck themselves.

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^^^ This!

[Thatcher II]

Lance is a control freak. He has lost control of the doping story. But his interview will have been a choreographed trade. The UCI already praised it. He's got some sort of deal about rehabilitation already worked out. He's not throwing himself on the mercy of the public or anyone else. As evidenced by his unrepentant demeanour. This is theatre and trade. Simple as.

Next for him is more of this bullshit, a few names given "reluctantly" and a cut in his ban to 5 years so that "running the Chicago marathon at 50" can happen.

Total bullshit. The Texan with the brass neck walks on. Pays back some money. And dodges the disgusting fact that he aggressively used cancer and charity when accused of doping.

The ultimate competitor.

A fucked up human being.

[Gav]

Considering Lance's big money days behind him.

I read the other day he's still worth around 100 million. I'd say that's big enough.

[Thatcher II]

Lance Armstrong's fall from grace after admitting to using performance-enhancing drugs shows no signs of slowing.

The professional cycling fraternity has shunned him, the sponsors have dropped him and just about everyone else he's ever crossed is about to sue him.

And now, his books - once an inspirational story of how to overcome adversity - have been re-shelved and re-categorised from 'must-read autobiography' to 'fiction.'
Manly Library in Sydney, Australia caused a few smirks after they moved three Armstrong titles this weekend.

A sign at reception read: 'All non-fiction Lance Armstrong titles, including 'Lance Armstrong: Images Of A Champion,' 'The Lance Armstrong Performance Program' and 'Lance Armstrong: World's Greatest Champion,' will soon be moved to the fiction section.'

I wonder how many people will be suddenly very keen to find out what 'The Lance Armstrong Performance Program' involves.

It comes as Armstrong, 41, took to the Oprah Winfrey chat show in the United States to come clean about being at the centre of one of the most sophisticated doping programmes in the history of sport and appealed for forgiveness from the public.

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[Andy83]

My recommendation. Start a racing league where enhancement is legal. Anything goes. Only requirement is transparency. We want too know what works.

HaHaHa! I've been thinking the same thing for all sports. Fuck this sanctimonious nonsense of "cheating".

[Turdacious]

Among my emails Wednesday morning, out of the blue, was one from Lance Armstrong.

Riles, I'm sorry.

All I can say for now but also the most heartfelt thing too. Two very important words.

And my first thought was ... "Two words? That's it?"

Two words? For 14 years of defending a man? And in the end, being made to look like a chump?

Wrote it, said it, tweeted it: "He's clean." Put it in columns, said it on radio, said it on TV. Staked my reputation on it. "Never failed a drug test," I'd always point out. "Most tested athlete in the world. Tested maybe 500 times. Never flunked one."

Why? Because Armstrong always told me he was clean. On the record. Off the record. Every kind of record. In Colorado. In Texas. In France. On team buses. In cars. On cell phones.

I let myself admire him. Let myself admire what he'd done with his life, admire the way he'd not only beaten his own cancer but was trying to help others beat it. When my sister was diagnosed, she read his book and got inspired. And I felt some pride in that. I let it get personal. And now I know he was living a lie and I was helping him live it.

I didn't realize that behind those blues was a bully, a coercer, a man who threatened people who once worked for and with him. The Andreus. Emma O'Reilly. Tyler Hamilton. Armstrong was strong-arming people in the morning, and filing lawsuits and op-ed pieces in the afternoon. We'd talk and his voice would get furious. And I'd believe him.

http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/id/8852 ... tory-lying

Sports reporters, both those who actually are journalists and those who think they are, won't forgive him. He's done.

[The Crawdaddy]

[Turdacious]

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[Holland Oates]

. . . Sports reporters, both those who actually are journalists and those who think they are, won't forgive him. He's done.

My GAWD! He'll never get into the hall of fame.

[Blaidd Drwg]

I'm glad to see all the fans who decided they like cycling because of Lance are now burning their jerseys and weeping in their Gatorade. Fuck the freds and anorak brigade. Fuck those people. Cycling may be frooty as hell, but it's also incomprehensibly difficult at anything above the local club level. The silly twats who think you can "race from Bordeaux to Paris on water alone", don't deserve to enjoy the sport.

[tough old man]

I like Armstrong. There I said it. He's a winner. Most winners are dicks, so what? And anyone who knew anything about cycling could NOT have believed anyone let alone Lance was clean.
When I train in a commercial gym, I trained where our Chicago Blackhawks farm team i guess trains ( Rockford Ice Hogs) and the amount of stuff getting injected is amazing. I actually got my Tren from their supplier.

[Holland Oates]

[Holland Oates]

Gorby's gonna have a stroke.

[Blaidd Drwg]

Depends on which side Gorby's playing against.

Lance's next move should be a partly tongue in cheek redux of American Psycho...including a new scene where he breaks up with Cheryl Crow because she has cancer.

I kid only a little.

[DARTH]

I like Armstrong. There I said it. He's a winner. Most winners are dicks, so what? And anyone who knew anything about cycling could NOT have believed anyone let alone Lance was clean.
When I train in a commercial gym, I trained where our Chicago Blackhawks farm team i guess trains ( Rockford Ice Hogs) and the amount of stuff getting injected is amazing. I actually got my Tren from their supplier.

[Alfred_E._Neuman]

I like Armstrong. There I said it. He's a winner. Most winners are dicks, so what? And anyone who knew anything about cycling could NOT have believed anyone let alone Lance was clean.
When I train in a commercial gym, I trained where our Chicago Blackhawks farm team i guess trains ( Rockford Ice Hogs) and the amount of stuff getting injected is amazing. I actually got my Tren from their supplier.

I don't like Armstrong because he's such an incredible douche away from the bike, but I admire the hell out of the guy for what he accomplished on the bike. I have no problem with cut throat tactics within a race or the context of racing, but threatening former friends/teammates goes beyond being a hard competitor and moves you into the realm of fag in my book.

People who have never ridden a bike at any level above the local group ride have no idea how physically and mentally tough you have to be to race a bike. And when I hear these Lance-ophyles come into the shop and talk about how it was all the drugs I just want to choke them out. I have to explain to them that drugs or no drugs he still trained as hard as he could push himself and still suffered like a dog in races. It's not like he took a little EPO and suddenly cruised around France in the 39 ring relaxing. The drugs just made his 100% efforts a little higher than they would have been otherwise.

[Mickey O'neil]

I'm glad to see all the fans who decided they like cycling because of Lance are now burning their jerseys and weeping in their Gatorade. Fuck the freds and anorak brigade. Fuck those people. Cycling may be frooty as hell, but it's also incomprehensibly difficult at anything above the local club level. The silly twats who think you can "race from Bordeaux to Paris on water alone", don't deserve to enjoy the sport.

Yep, this. I also agree with tough old man and Al. I love Lance the cyclist and competitor but some of the other shit he did, the destroying of other people's lives, is bullshit.

I hope y'all don't mind but I used BD's, tough old man's, and Al's quotes on FB.

[Thatcher II]

What about using my text on FB, Mickey, you fucking douchebag?

Alfred is right on Lance still having to train and suffer. Which makes Lemond seem bitter. He's been sayin Landis and Hamilton would have won if they'd had access to the same gear. That sounds like bullshit to me (and I respect what Lemond, as the only US Tour winner, accomplished).