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

Batboy2/75 wrote: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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Batboy2/75 wrote:Considering Lance's big money days behind him.

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.

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

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.

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

tough old man wrote: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.

tough old man wrote: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.

Blaidd Drwg wrote: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.