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

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ray j willings said:
How do you do massive cheating?
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Ask Lance. Oh wait.. he says it was all minimal with him.

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frenchfry said:
"Greg LeMond to be honoured at Tour Down Under's Legends' Night Dinner"

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/news-shorts-greg-lemond-for-tour-down-under

Wait, wasn't Lancey-poo the resident hero of the Tour Down Under?

Somebody somewhere is probably wrapping a 9 iron around a tree.
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he was. But Lance probably took about 3million US back to the US in his pocket.

I think Lemond might get, 100k US, plus two tickets first class for he and his wife.

Lance would have got more cash for the oil and landing fees for his private jet
 
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blackcat said:
he was. But Lance probably took about 3million US back to the US in his pocket.

I think Lemond might get, 100k US, plus two tickets first class for he and his wife.

Lance would have got more cash for the oil and landing fees for his private jet
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Yes, I think Lance was paid by the Adelaide State Government in a NDA deal to participate in the TDU. Then they named the Flinders Cancer Center after Livestrong and paid for the naming rights.

Aussies were gooey for Lance Comeback 2.0.

Looks like its still named after Livestrong:

http://www.fmcfoundation.com.au/fcic/livestrong-cancer-research-centre

ADELAIDE, Australia -- The government of South Australia state said Tuesday it will seek damages or compensation from Lance Armstrong after his reported confession to Oprah Winfrey that he doped during his career.

Roger Federer, meanwhile, wants to hear the confession for himself.

South Australia Premier Jay Weatherill said the state would seek the repayment of several million dollars in appearance fees paid to Armstrong for competing in the Tour Down Under cycle race in 2009, 2010 and 2011.

Weatherill said reports Armstrong admitted doping during a recorded interview with Winfrey, due to be broadcast in the United States on Thursday, changed the government's view on its entitlement to compensation.

He said Armstrong "has deceived the cycling community around the world" by repeatedly denying he used performance-enhancing drugs during a career in which he won the Tour de France seven times.

"We'd be more than happy for Mr. Armstrong to make any repayment of monies to us," Weatherill said.
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And looks like that money is never coming back... :rolleyes:
 
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blackcat said:
he was. But Lance probably took about 3million US back to the US in his pocket.

I think Lemond might get, 100k US, plus two tickets first class for he and his wife.

Lance would have got more cash for the oil and landing fees for his private jet
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I bet LeMond does some bike business while there. I guess he'll make more than appearance money on the trip.

I aslo guess LeMond will have whatever fees he gets paid long after Armstrong's is gone either to the feds. Yellow Rose or his ex wive(s).......:D
 
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Benotti69 said:
I bet LeMond does some bike business while there. I guess he'll make more than appearance money on the trip.

I aslo guess LeMond will have whatever fees he gets paid long after Armstrong's is gone either to the feds. Yellow Rose or his ex wive(s).......:D
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not sure Lemond has any stake downunder
 
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blackcat said:
not sure Lemond has any stake downunder
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he is going down under to plant a stake and become Govenor of DownUnderLand, where everyone shall ride a LeMond bike outside and inside a LeMond revolution!!
 
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Benotti69 said:
Might be a nice Xmas pressie for Armstrong.......:rolleyes:
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On the one hand, it seems like this would be a slow week and attention would be elsewhere.

On the other hand, maybe someone was trying to clean things up before the New Year.

Anyhow, the rumor came from a source more reliable than me. Just surprised nobody else has anything.

Dave.
 
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DirtyWorks said:
It would fit with a strategy of preserving "the champion's" brand. Get the bad news out of the way and go play some golf with some "celebrities." The new 'champion' bar is muuuuuuuuuch lower.
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barry bonds is dating one of the former US roadrace champions. Cant remember her name. I thought, crikey, thats apt innit
dopers of a brethren sleep together
 
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barry bonds is dating one of the former US roadrace champions. Cant remember her name. I thought, crikey, thats apt innit
dopers of a brethren sleep together
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Mari Holden. YMMV:

The Home Run King attended a Hall of Fame banquet this summer, but his name did not appear in the program or on any plaque. Seven weeks before Cooperstown's annual celebration would carry on without Barry Bonds, another ceremony honored his girlfriend, Mari Holden, a 2000 world champion and Olympic silver medalist in cycling. Bonds himself amounted to arm candy at the Ventura County Sports Hall of Fame induction ceremony, and he looked the part: trim and sleek, free of the bloat that defined his later years in baseball.
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When they met, she could crush him on an incline, and apparently he loved that. "He's very animated about it, and very funny," said Mike Sinyard, the founder and CEO of Specialized Bicycle Components, who has befriended Bonds. "He couldn't believe it: 'How is this little, beautiful woman passing me going up this hill?'"
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IIn 2005, three months after McGwire went to Washington and declined to talk about his past, Holden appeared at a hearing about performance-enhancement among women and girls. Designated as an athlete ambassador for the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, she told Congress:

I am here because I want to make sure that the clean athletes of today and tomorrow have a voice. Our children need to have a level playing field, and the use of drugs for sport or looks should be deterred at all levels. As a clean athlete, I want you to test me so that the world knows that when I win, I win fair and square. I believe all clean athletes feel the same when given the chance to speak freely about these issues. Frankly, it is the same simple rule we all followed as children on the playground and which our children hopefully still follow today. Cheaters never win, and winners never cheat.
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He entered the 2013 GranFondo but withdrew three weeks before the start, the day his appeal was denied...
The founder of the ride, Levi Leipheimer, is one of the six Armstrong lieutenants who accepted a six-month ban from cycling after cooperating with USADA's investigation. He and Bonds have become friends, through the women in their lives -- his wife Odessa Gunn and Holden once rode on a team together -- and the baseball star's devotion to the bike. "He told me it saved him," Leipheimer said. "He said it gave him something that challenged him." Leipheimer has stayed at Bonds' Southern California mansion and discussed PEDs with his new friend. "He does talk about it, not in specifics," Leipheimer said. "He talks about the owners and the commissioner's office and their relationship to it."
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Moser said he is also against suspending riders several years after they won races. He described the decision by USADA to ban Lance Armstrong for life and cancel his seven Tour de France titles as 'ridiculous'.

“I believe that when the race is over and the testing has been done, you can't question things any further. Otherwise we could question every result in every sport. It's ridiculous that they took Armstrong's Tour de France victories away ten years afterwards. I don't want to be misunderstood. We've got to find a surefire system that works, otherwise we should let everyone do whatever they want.”
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http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/moser-wiggins-can-set-close-to-56km-for-the-hour-record
 
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http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/moser-wiggins-can-set-close-to-56km-for-the-hour-record
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Moser said he is also against suspending riders several years after they won races. He described the decision by USADA to ban Lance Armstrong for life and cancel his seven Tour de France titles as 'ridiculous'.

“I believe that when the race is over and the testing has been done, you can't question things any further. Otherwise we could question every result in every sport. It's ridiculous that they took Armstrong's Tour de France victories away ten years afterwards. I don't want to be misunderstood. We've got to find a surefire system that works, otherwise we should let everyone do whatever they want.”
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And when they test positive but buy impunity from the governing body? Does he have an opinion on that?

Moser, just another ex-doper d!ckhead apologist.
 
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frenchfry said:
And when they test positive but buy impunity from the governing body? Does he have an opinion on that?

Moser, just another ex-doper d!ckhead apologist.
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in complete agreement.
 
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Bluenote said:
In today's same old tired talking point spouted by an ex-doper / a long retired guy / some random bike industry person...

I wonder how low it's going to go? I'm imagining this Onion Article "Brad, who puts together bikes at Walmart, thinks Armstrong was robbed!"
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You mean Brad Wiggins from Tesco? :rolleyes:

That is not something I wish to live with. Doping would simply be not worth it. This is only sport we are talking about. Sport does not mean more to me than all those other things I have. Winning the Tour de France at any cost is not worth the possibility of losing all that.

I am not willing to risk all those things I've got in my life. I do it because I love it. I don't do it for a power trip: at the end of the day, I'm a shy bloke looking forward to taking my son to summer rugby camp after the Tour, where he could maybe bump into his hero, Sam Tomkins. That's what's keeping me going here. What I love is doing my best and working hard. If I felt I had to take drugs, I would rather stop tomorrow, go and ride club 10-mile time trials, ride to the cafe on Sundays, and work in Tesco stacking shelves.
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