Official Lance Armstrong Thread: Part 3 (Post-Confession)

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Mark Webber on Lance "I think what's staggering to everyone is the amount of people he was prepared to take out on the way up; people who were morally on the right side of the bridge. He wasn't worried about the ramifications and the position he may have put these people in; it was all about Planet Lance."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/21240896

i was just about to post this link... more nuanced than that quote makes it seem, more human... chapeau to Webber!

 

[RetroActive]

Lance Armstrong lies to Oprah Winfrey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SUKZD6eqgo

 

[DominicDecoco]

Lance Armstrong lies to Oprah Winfrey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SUKZD6eqgo

Wasn't really a reason to modify that video. He was lying on the original one as well... ;-)

 

[RetroActive]

Wasn't really a reason to modify that video. He was lying on the original one as well... ;-)

...for the sake of continuity he just tightened it up a little.

 

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was this known before?

http://www.lequipe.fr/Cyclisme-sur-...in-etait-aussi-controleur/346478#xtor=CS1-12-[Le-medecin-etait-aussi-controleur-346478]

 

[Tinman]

So the past week has seen 2 parallel developments that make me think of a perfect storm developing, and LAnce playing his next card:

1. Lance's Oprah show has backfired on him big time. The fanbase that he and Fabiani assumed were stupid have not bought the continuing lies. Tygart and others calling him on it didn't help. But it has left Lance in a worse position than before. He is being ignored and being forgotten more quickly than anyone could have imagined.

2. UCI has made total fools of themselves and their administration of cycling, their fraud & manipulation now abundantly clear to the world, yet Pat and Hein are still there...

I say there is a good chance Lance will play his next (final?) card and disclose the various UCI dirt. This in an attempt to clean his own image, present himself as the cycling messiah (sinned but came clean and saved the sport). It's his golden chance to redeem himself after the failure of the previous 2 strategies (ignore USADA case and Oprah show) and reclaim the media spotlight. And Tygart has dangled the carrot already...

 

[ebandit]

done

I say there is a good chance Lance will play his next (final?) card and disclose the various UCI dirt. This in an attempt to clean his own image, present himself as the cycling messiah (sinned but came clean and saved the sport). It's his golden chance to redeem himself after the failure of the previous 2 strategies (ignore USADA case and Oprah show) and reclaim the media spotlight. And Tygart has dangled the carrot already...

i really can't see it ...........i believe lance that he is done 'fighting'

oprah backfired .......lance has retreated further ..............hopefully
NEVER to be see again

even if lance chose to detonate the uci how could he too not be even more
badly tarnished by any fallout?

 

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Lance Armstrong Exclusive Interview

 

[Bannockburn]

Some interesting items in here: http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/lance-armstrong-exclusive-interview

 

[mewmewmew13]

Piece of crap from Armstrong using DB as mouthpiece.

It doesn't reflect anything true from him....

"Travis' stunt"

 

[Benotti69]

Armstrong accuses

No generation was exempt or 'clean'. Not Merckx, not Hinault, not LeMond, not Coppi, not Gimondi, not Indurain, not Anquetil, not Bartali, and not mine.

Is he naming riders in this or generations?

He is taking no prisoners here naming Hinault, LeMond and Indurain.

He really should never be allowed on a bike again in any competition.

To take a dig at Bartali is the lowest of the low.

Armstrong still hoping

We all made the mess, let's all fix the mess, and let's all be punished equally.

I think you may find that some controlled the mess. And not all punishment should be meted out equally.

Armstrong still trying desperately to get his ban to 6 months?

That interview was obviously an email interview because it is not Armstrong replying. Probably Stapleton.

 

[del1962]

Seems like this latest interview is a technique in deflection,

From hopping on trains a 100 years ago to EPO now. No generation was exempt or 'clean'. Not Merckx, not Hinault, not LeMond, not Coppi, not Gimondi, not Indurain, not Anquetil, not Bartali, and not mine.

attempted dig at LeMond

 

[hrotha]

I imagine the interview was done via email, because otherwise there's no explanation for the lack of follow-up questions. It's all pretty bland.

 

[ScienceIsCool]

He honestly thinks what he to the sport and those around him is on par with what Hincapie, Barry, et al did. He wants that 6 month ban for "coming clean". And he couldn't help but try and slime LeMond while he was at it. Pure trash. He should not be offered any part of a TRC. We already know what he's done and why.

John Swanson

 

[Carols]

For someone not outing others he sure put some names on the list. What an Arrogant, Self Serving, Pitiful AS* that excuse for a human being is!

 

[hrotha]

For someone not outing others he sure put some names on the list. What an Arrogant, Self Serving, Pitiful AS* that excuse for a human being is!

I think he worded it carefully, including dropping the 's, so that the message would be clear but he couldn't be accused of smearing LeMond and the rest.

 

[manafana]

I imagine the interview was done via email, because otherwise there's no explanation for the lack of follow-up questions. It's all pretty bland.

Id agree with this, another interview done on his terms.

 

[Carols]

Well this interview explains Benson's other article where he trashes Tygart:
http://www.cyclingnews.com/features/comment-why-no-one-will-win-cyclings-war-of-words

It's all about access to Lance, the game journalists have been playing since 1999

 

[the asian]

I imagine the interview was done via email, because otherwise there's no explanation for the lack of follow-up questions. It's all pretty bland.

Benson has confirmed the Interview was done via Email.

Just another pathetic attempt by Armstrong to justify his doping.

 

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Benson has confirmed the Interview was done via Email.

Just another pathetic attempt by Armstrong to justify his doping.

and he absolutely did not write any of those words

 

[Microchip]

Armstrong accuses

Is he naming riders in this or generations?

He is taking no prisoners here naming Hinault, LeMond and Indurain...

He's lumping everyone into his category; equating a white lie as damaging as a slanderous lie. Calling it seeking an "advantage". What nonsense!

Here's what he's really saying about the other 'generations':

"There's no way they competed clean because if they did, it means I'm not as good of a cyclist that they are and that's IMPOSSIBLE. They're NOT better than me, so they HAD to have been juicing!"

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Yes - but nice to see LA bad mouthing Pat and the UCI.
That at least is news.

 

[sniper]

Yes - but nice to see LA bad mouthing Pat and the UCI.
That at least is news.

indeed.

Pathetic Pat. Nice.

I guess I could like an Earnest Lance.
When he speaks frankly, you see he's quite a clever guy with a nice way of putting things.
But he has to go for the 100%. not 60%, not 95%. (the full truth, I mean)

 

[MarkvW]

I imagine the interview was done via email, because otherwise there's no explanation for the lack of follow-up questions. It's all pretty bland.

And no unanswered questions.

 

[Mishrak]

He really should stop mentioning the word "truth" in anything he says. No one, and I mean no one, should take anything he says as even remotely credible anymore. Even if he were to be totally candid about the UCI and what they did or didn't do, it'd be hard to believe it was completely true.