TRDean said:Is that a personal attack on people who don't like lance? Sorry man...you need to get over it.
Gee, how many personal attacks have you posted on people just because they happen to like Lance? You need to get over it, man.
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TRDean said:Is that a personal attack on people who don't like lance? Sorry man...you need to get over it.
laura.weislo said:
Keep all discussions about Lance Armstrong in this thread, but please, keep it civil. That means no insulting fellow forumites, no curse words even if you know how to defeat the built-in filters and all keep doping discussions to The Clinic.
The last thread was shut down because certain members could not behave. This time, let's try to be reasonable. OK folks?
Amsterhammer said:Gee, how many personal attacks have you posted on people just because they happen to like Lance? You need to get over it, man.
Dr. Maserati said:Exactly - we need to move on and get back on subject.
Mont Ventoux said:This guy weasled his way to the podium!!
And did you take note of his command performance on said podium in Paris??
What a self-absorbed megalomaniacal ingrate, the likes that cycling has never seen!
Like Hinault, I want to see Alberto "pistol-whip" LA's backside, AGAIN, next year!!
It's not about the fight for Cancer, it's about Lance and his ever-expanding ego....What a knob...
On the flipside, I've got a stack of calendars, and I'm slowly crossing out the days to his eventual retirement.....AMEN.
fulcrum said:1- He did drop BW by about a minute, didn't he?
Yes, and then he proceeded to close the gap with Nibali. Which he was unable to do. So what the hell does AC's attack have to do with any of it?
2- But it's too late because SB got motivated...
It was not too late. Lance was too weak. And that's what happens on the race, you get beat by better riders, and Andy was better than Lance. Whether AK got dropped or not has nothing to do with motivating the Schleck brothers, they were already motivated and doing all the pulling in front. They had opened the gap and they had the strength to keep it.
3- The point is, it would not have been 2 minutes if AC worked together with LA and AK against SB.
Are you seriously suggesting that AC should have dropped from the front group and waited for Armstrong so they could all together work in closing the gap? You make me wonder why I waste my time arguing a point like that.
Amsterhammer said:Uh, what is the subject here, apart from LA bashing?
(That remark is not addressed at you Dr. M, as you are a reasonable and honorable man, unlike most on the other side.)
Anyway, I'm sure you all will have a great time in my absence over the next three weeks. Toodleloo.
ggusta said:Armstrong? I don't see him attack very much, does anyone else see him do that? I know I am no nobel laureate or anything, but did he attack much this year? I did see him catch the break on stage 3. I wonder if he and Johan communicated that to AC, because ya' know, like Lance says, AC jus ain't two smurt.
How often did he attack bw on the ventoux?
badboyberty said:My guess is the real reason Contador rode the way he did is that is the way he wants to ride. He may not be content to sit in the wheels and let someone else take the stage win while he waits for Paris, he (shock horror) may actually like to winning stages and may actually enjoy going on the attack.
Contador may actually ride the way he does, not as some grand plan to debunk the Church of Lance, but because he likes racing. And I think that's a good thing that, unfortunately, we don't see enough of any more.
Hugh Januss said:This post , while wide of the mark gramatically, does manage to hit an important question (which may have been asked and answered many times already) pretty much right on the head. Anybody want to take this one ...again.
BYOP88 said:Come on why all this chit-chat about some small race in France and who attacked who in the race where it matters and who attacked who in the press. Everyone is just jealous of Lance I mean who else can say they won the Nevada City Classic this year, NO ONE!!!!! Nevada City Classic is the new Tour de France.
Frenchfried007 said:Maybe if I can waste my life away here I to can read all of the posts and be as good as others. Kind of shocked I remembered to come back to the forum as these things are usually a huge waste of time.
Let me know when you get this one graded. LMAO
ggusta said:If Lance won it, it's awesome. If AC won it, it's manure. these races are not defined by history or the fans or anything other than these 2 guys. Try and keep up people. Lance atacked all the way up the ventoux, even if he said he only had to hold bw's and fs's wheels. Who are you gonna believe? LA? Or your own lyin' eyes? It's not just anyone who can do a 150 yard sprint on the champs elysees on a girlie bike when a tv camera just happens to be there.
Next year, Lance will be on all 4 steps of the podium wearing the green, the polka dot, the white, the yellow, the maglia rossa. The vuelta will be awarded to him at the tdf and the race will be canceled in honor of his magnificence.
The Team Radio Shlock roster has just been announced: Team members are
1. Lance Armstrong
His bike, a 1970 western auto banana seat 3 speed with baseball cards in the spokes.
Frenchfried007 said:Sorry if I didn't read all 15 pages of the forum, no thanks. Also, I highly appreciate you giving my post of some B.S. web site a gramatical check, LOL. Lots of rants in here and I don't care to read all of them. I thought this may have been an avenue to vent a little. Didn't realize I would be under such strict scrutiny. The questions I posed didn't need answering. Obviously we already know the answers. Maybe if I can waste my life away here I to can read all of the posts and be as good as others. Kind of shocked I remembered to come back to the forum as these things are usually a huge waste of time.
Let me know when you get this one graded. LMAO
I'm not sure you understand some of the fundamentals of bike racing. Climbing strength basically comes from a strong sustainable power to weight ratio, TT strength comes basically from a strong sustainable power to frontal area. Just because Andy Schleck can kick Armstrong's behind in the mountains, does not necessarily imply he should be able to do the same in a TT.padyakpinoy said:If Andy was really stronger, then what did he do on the ITT vs Lance? 25 vs 38? Wow, that makes Andy stronger?
ggusta said:If Lance won it, it's awesome. If AC won it, it's manure. these races are not defined by history or the fans or anything other than these 2 guys. Try and keep up people. Lance atacked all the way up the ventoux, even if he said he only had to hold bw's and fs's wheels. Who are you gonna believe? LA? Or your own lyin' eyes? It's not just anyone who can do a 150 yard sprint on the champs elysees on a girlie bike when a tv camera just happens to be there.
Next year, Lance will be on all 4 steps of the podium wearing the green, the polka dot, the white, the yellow, the maglia rossa. The vuelta will be awarded to him at the tdf and the race will be canceled in honor of his magnificence.
The Team Radio Shlock roster has just been announced: Team members are
1. Lance Armstrong
His bike, a 1970 western auto banana seat 3 speed with baseball cards in the spokes.
padyakpinoy said:Be careful what you wish for, he just might still win (except the white jersey of course)! LOL
padyakpinoy said:Be careful what you wish for, he just might still win (except the white jersey of course)! LOL
ggusta said:No way dude, he is going to spin the globe backwards, like superLance, and reverse time. Then, after he crushes everyone in the prologue by moving at the speed of light, he will announce that he has cured every form of cancer singlehandedly. By Stage 3, every other team will either quit or be renaming their children Lance. Even the girls. AC will be unmasked as Satan and thrown into the lake of fire.
He is Risen!!!!
That's how much I love Lance!!!
franciep10 said:I used to criticize bro deal and TFF for calling LA a cancer to the sport, but he has been a cancer to Astana, he has destroyed the best cycling team by just being himself, frankly he and JB are just plain dumb. Do you LA lovers still think that JB is a genius, because what he has done or is going to do, is make one of the dumbest management mistake in sport since Boston traded Babe Ruth to the Yankees, while I'm not calling Contador Babe Ruth, the fact is contador is 26 and can only get better and lance is 38 and can only get worse, Contador can win barring any unfortunate circumstance win at least 4 more grand tours and I doubt LA can win a pro tour stage race, so I'm not even going to mention a grand tour. I don't think that radio shack can last more than two years with the age of that team I probably fit in the average age of that team. Amsterhammer, If you're going to say you're not going to post in this thread at least try to last a day.