Recent content by objective skeptic

You gotta admit, Kloden draggin him along was a nice touch. Really helped sell it :rolleyes:

Wouldn't be ironic, in addition to suffering the indignation of Kloden losing seconds to drag Lance along (for what?), he tested positive? LOL, would be like a fairty-tale ending for the haters.

JB pretty much tipped the hand early on when he said this morning something along the lines of "I think AC will attack....I think LA is happy to stay where he's at and wait". LA said himself he didn't know what to expect today, and I don't think any of us really knew. Most didn't expect...

Yeah, still pretty impressive for the old man. I was just hoping he had more than he'd shown to make things interesting the final week. Oh well, awesome performance by AC. Kloden was the real teammate dragging LA along, sacrificing seconds that could cost potentially cost him a podium...

The problem is, no one else heard what Betsy Andreu's heard. Again, you readily dismiss the possibility that she misheard or for other reasons flat out made it up. Sorry, people get ****ed and bitter and say stuff. Her statements are meaningless to me, they cannot be verified or refuted...

I understand all that. Am I an expert? No, and I'm not one pretending to be. I completely understand the skepticism. But great champions are, in fact, typically defined by difficult to explain or incomprehensible feats. I understand the "science" against Armstrong being clean. What I asked...

Amen! Forget about his bio passport, let's talk about carbon footprints! Although, I believe Dr. Coyle has a new study that concludes LA's **** don't stink

Fair points, but I find that to be intrinsically contradicting. First, an "approach of complete denial and silence" is understating things JUST a bit, but I won't argue semantics. Now, you say he can't risk his image. Agreed. So why, then, would you be so contentious and aggressive in...

Hey, isn't that what LA is doing? :p

Forgive me for not being up-to-speed on this particular issue, but would I be wrong to assume Lance wasn't being tested during his treatment? In that scenario, it's possible to have the body breakdown and lose weight and then be re-built differently. 75 kilos pre-cancer does not necessarily...

How about, instead of time bonuses, we implement EPO bonuses?

I like to offset being labeled "fan boy" :p

Maybe, maybe not. Just my impression that it tends to be the perception. Chicken/egg thing, but regardless Armstrong is directly connected/associated with the new dynamic that has made for more boring & predictable GC racing in the TdF.

First off, show me a top elite athlete who is not arrogant and I will show you an underachiever. Some are just better at feigning humility than others. Second, I think a lot of the hate stems from the belief that he is a hypocrite. Seems many are able to forgive people that make mistakes...

I think Lance's realistic goals were to try to get yellow (we saw him go after this aggressively twice when old, confident Lance would not have been concerned at that point), maybe even steal a stage win (or, more accurately, have AC hand him one). Either scenario is a hugely successful...