Media amnesia and reactions

[Nick C.]

According to this clown - 'Armstrong is taking the high road'

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/nike--livestrong-abandoning-lance-armstrong-at-wrong-time.html

Wetzel is a rah rah USA USA cheerleader, when he's not busy patronising non-American athletes.

That is a cretinous article. So its OK to run a fraud, use a foundation to enrich yourself and your lifestyle as long as it is for a good cause.

 

[bobbins]

You sound like Samuel Sanchez.

You know what I mean, I'm sick of riders telling me that people or teams are clean. The riders can't prove it but the teams can be transparent.

 

[bobbins]

Didn't see those interviews I'm afraid.

What is it that suddenly stops bike riders talking about it when they become really good then?

Serious question. Are they sick of talking about it by then or are they all on it or is there an other influence affecting how forthright they are in the press?

 

[Dear Wiggo]

Why? He's a bike rider. Let the self promotion specialists like Millar talk the talk. As long as Wiggins wins clean then that's fine by me. His team need to sort out their terrible PR but it's not up to him to take it upon himself to be spokesman. You must have seen his interviews? He's not that comfortable and won't come across great so best to keep his head down and get on with the day job.

And by wins clean I mean passes the tests and is happy for his team to be transparent. He may need to move teams though.

So in 2007 he can throw his kit in the bin and crack the sads at dopers, but in 2012 he needs to STFU and pass the tests?

Good good.

 

[bobbins]

So in 2007 he can throw his kit in the bin and crack the sads at dopers, but in 2012 he needs to STFU and pass the tests?

Good good.

Like I said, something seems to happen to make this stop.

 

[Lukenwolf]

Some media reactions that were published in the German maganzine "Der Spiegel":

Spain

It's official now. Lance Armstrong did never exist. The UCI sentences him to be forgotten.

UCI put the disgraced Armstrong on the Guillotine. The texan and his era are stricken from cycling history. But the gouverning body goes too far in its attempt to uncover the past. Instead of saving cycling they darg it down even more.

WTF

Armstrong disappears from cycling history. The UCI punishment is exemplary.

The causa Armstrong will not only take down the Texan. The UCI, too, is punch-drunk and without credibility. Their image was tarnished before. The Armstrong fraud shows zhat the root of all evil is not in the peloton alone.

The fall of Armstrong is not a desaster, it's a catharsis. Armstrong was the evil Sherriff and it is good that all of cycling knows it now.

more countries to follow

 

[Lukenwolf]

more media snippets

Italy

Armstrong wiped out. Game Over. An era has ended. It's a historical turn-around but also a missed chance. Pat McQuaid would have had to apologize for the ineptitude of cyclings gouverning body.

Cycling wipes out Lance Armstrong

Armstrong was stripped of his seven Titles. Cycling lies in ruins.

Better late than never. Armstrong is gone. All that remains is hope.

The End of a Myth

 

[Bala Verde]

LA has got a staunch supporter:

“My hat is in Lance’s corner,” says Victoria Gotti, widow of John Gotti, the late mob boss.

As a result, Gotti has a reflexive sympathy for others faced by onetime comrades turned accusers. She no doubt would become all the more sympathetic if Armstrong ends up being prosecuted.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...oting-for-banned-cyclist-lance-armstrong.html

 

[Nick C.]

LA has got a staunch supporter:





http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...oting-for-banned-cyclist-lance-armstrong.html

Is that article a joke, if it is they could at least be funny ala the Onion.

 

[the asian]

LA has got a staunch supporter:





http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...oting-for-banned-cyclist-lance-armstrong.html

Mafia boss gets support from a former Mafia boss's daughter. Appropriate

 

[biomac]

'Happy Doping' for everyone skilled to the art as chances never will be equal, nor will men be.

 

[mewmewmew13]

Kind of a meh article but news from Boulder....
this mornings Colorado Daily

http://www.denverpost.com/lacrosse/...-say-armstrongs-actions-reflect-poorly-entire

 

[Mrs John Murphy]

more media snippets

Italy

It would be interesting to contrast with say German and French reactions.

Thanks for the roundup.

 

[frenchfry]

The Washington Post hasn't spent a lot of space on this, and Sally Jenkins has been notably silent. She was an integral part of his communication/PR team and has absolutely no chance of having us believe that she was "duped". It was her that "duped" the many unknowledgable Armstrong followers.

 

[frenchfry]

It would be interesting to contrast with say German and French reactions.

Thanks for the roundup.

Michel Drucker, a popular variety show host who interviewed Armstrong around the time of his comeback, was on the nightly news a few days ago and said how he still had a lot of admiration for Armstrong and how he will remember him for his athletic exploits and the good he has done. The next day on the radio many were questioning how Drucker could have made these statements given what we now know. It has become very difficult to defend the fraud. Drucker was one of those who exist for their relationships with the "stars" and was very easily manipulated as were so many others.

 

[blackcat]

I want to be a supporter of Armstrong.

Cycling got the patron it deserved.

Cant cut the head off a monster without a new head gonna replace it.



THIS

IS

CYCLING

 

[Benotti69]

Should Lance Armstrong's Downfall Sully Sally Jenkins?

http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/dailyweekly/2012/10/lance_armstrong_sally_jenkins.php

her feeble attempt to extricate herself from the train wreck. FAIL

http://jimromenesko.com/2012/10/23/why-sally-jenkins-hasnt-written-about-lance-armstrong-lately/

 

[Benotti69]

The Forgotten Ones


http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/39997062/

 

[fat_boy_fat]

The Forgotten Ones


http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/39997062/

This Millard Baker guy in the comments makes me sick.

 

[Mrs John Murphy]

Writing a book or spending time in therapy.

I'm guessing the reason why some CN hacks are keeping a low profile at the moment is that it is hard to write in between appointments at the shrink as they work out how the **** they are going to respin and rewrite their own histories.

 

[Benotti69]

This Millard Baker guy in the comments makes me sick.

a demand media/liesrong intern.

They inhabit the interweb trying their damnedest to obfuscate the comment sections and failing miserably.

 

[cineteq]

Great stuff by Alexander Wolff form SI!
Too bad SI won't have LA in the cover.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1206183/1/index.htm

 

[Mrs John Murphy]

Great stuff by Alexander Wolff form SI!
Too bad SI won't have LA in the cover.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1206183/1/index.htm

Really good stuff. One of the best articles yet.

 

[autologous]

Should Lance Armstrong's Downfall Sully Sally Jenkins?

http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/dailyweekly/2012/10/lance_armstrong_sally_jenkins.php

her feeble attempt to extricate herself from the train wreck. FAIL

http://jimromenesko.com/2012/10/23/why-sally-jenkins-hasnt-written-about-lance-armstrong-lately/

I love Betsy's comment on that 2nd article!

Looky here - from the Washington City Paper in July 2009 where Ms. Jenkins defense of Armstrong comes faster than the dumping of him by any of his sponsors. http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2009/07/16/playing-the-feud™-celebrity-edition/ Ms. Jenkins, you're an embarrassment to journalists for whom integrity is a standard.

 

[Mrs John Murphy]

Benson showing a Contador-esque grasp on the way things are going.


http://mobile.twitter.com/dnlbenson/status/261172106795044864