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macbindle said:The Floyd Retirement fund hasn't come through.
Digger said:Exactly what would her testifying again have achieved for her? How could this time possibly have brought her closure. He won't apologise or acknowledge the hospital room happened. We all know it did happen. But I don't know where she will find peace in all this. Testifying in this case, had it gone to trial wasn't going to bring it. We all believe her.
However as the years have gone by this isn't black and white. I went from being a big Betsy supporter to growing uneasy. He started it but by God has she continued it.
Then Betsy was talking to WADA and saying they were a force for good, saying Floyd should repay USADA for the trial expenses and then a few years ago talking at conferences about anti doping. If she wants to talk about anti doping by all means go for it - she's an intelligent, articulate woman with a husband who competed at this level - but at some point she has to talk about more than Lance.
TourOfSardinia said:What happened to the ~100M$ claim?
S2Sturges said:macbindle said:The Floyd Retirement fund hasn't come through.
At least he got to spruik his weed business... gotta be some follow on from that... though not the money on trees sceanario he was banking on, only not so much in the bushes...
There's a book about him due in June, it was hoping to cash in on the trial for PR...DamianoMachiavelli said:How long before LeMond weighs in? He will undoubtedly continue his Hercule Poirot act with its tale of how he followed the clues to figure out Lance was doping while not mentioning there was nothing to figure out because he, like all pros, was well aware that 99% of pros dope and that was the case for a hundred years before he turned pro, the case while he was a pro, and continued to be the case after he retired. Funny how he not only holds fast to omerta to protect doping rivals who stole victories from him but is pleased to do public appearances with them. You would think that after thirty years of telling people he would have won the 1985 Tour if his team had not misled him on the road he might have mentioned Hinault and the French contingent on the team was doped to the gills.
They've been sponsoring the Podcast for a while now...eleven said:Somewhat off topic, but has anyone noticed that the most recent Cycling News Podcast (covering Fleche Wallone, etc...) is brought to you by...Floyds of Leadville. Ya can't make this **** up.
eleven said:Somewhat off topic, but has anyone noticed that the most recent Cycling News Podcast (covering Fleche Wallone, etc...) is brought to you by...Floyds of Leadville. Ya can't make this **** up.
Oh I didn't mean to imply anything at all about Floyd. I just found it interesting that the CyclingNews podcast is brought to us by a guy who was stripped of his TdF title for doping and spent years fighting it.DamianoMachiavelli said:eleven said:Somewhat off topic, but has anyone noticed that the most recent Cycling News Podcast (covering Fleche Wallone, etc...) is brought to you by...Floyds of Leadville. Ya can't make this **** up.
Don't throw shade on my man Floyd. In the years I have known him he has never expressed the expectation of walking away with a jackpot from this. He has always known he would end up with little to nothing for the time, trouble, and trauma. The math with the average whistle blower percentage, the lawyers' cut, the taxes, and the deferred prosecution agreement was pretty simple. It was never about the money.
Wiggo's Package said:Was always going to settle
Surprised the Feds didn't manage to screw Lance for more than $5m plus Floyd's legal fees - suggests Lance played hardball and the Feds blinked
Don't forget however Lance has to pay his own legal fees - if Floyd's are $1.65m then Lance's must be multiples of that
Time to draw a line and move on...
yaco said:It's a matter of the US Government wasting taxpayers money fighting a spurious claim - Shame on the Government.
This is what's going to happen until the book or the film arrives: arguing the toss over which side won the pyrrhic victory.MarkvW said:yaco said:It's a matter of the US Government wasting taxpayers money fighting a spurious claim - Shame on the Government.
Dude, the Feds surely came out ahead on this. Not by too much...but ahead.
DamianoMachiavelli said:eleven said:Somewhat off topic, but has anyone noticed that the most recent Cycling News Podcast (covering Fleche Wallone, etc...) is brought to you by...Floyds of Leadville. Ya can't make this **** up.
Don't throw shade on my man Floyd. In the years I have known him he has never expressed the expectation of walking away with a jackpot from this. He has always known he would end up with little to nothing for the time, trouble, and trauma. The math with the average whistle blower percentage, the lawyers' cut, the taxes, and the deferred prosecution agreement was pretty simple. It was never about the money.
Netserk said:With BD here, we just miss TFF.
aphronesis said:I always thought it was about a rough collision with reality and the idea that if he couldn’t be in neither could JB and Armstrong. Some punitive justice that’s morphed some since.
macbindle said:DamianoMachiavelli said:eleven said:Somewhat off topic, but has anyone noticed that the most recent Cycling News Podcast (covering Fleche Wallone, etc...) is brought to you by...Floyds of Leadville. Ya can't make this **** up.
Don't throw shade on my man Floyd. In the years I have known him he has never expressed the expectation of walking away with a jackpot from this. He has always known he would end up with little to nothing for the time, trouble, and trauma. The math with the average whistle blower percentage, the lawyers' cut, the taxes, and the deferred prosecution agreement was pretty simple. It was never about the money.
€1,000,000 isn't bad. I wouldn't pass that up.
His legal fees paid too.
If it wasn't about the money, what was it about?
macbindle said:aphronesis said:I always thought it was about a rough collision with reality and the idea that if he couldn’t be in neither could JB and Armstrong. Some punitive justice that’s morphed some since.
Yeah me too, and I've neither quite grasped the beatification of Landis. A man who took money off people, under false pretences, to pay for a campaign aimed entirely at undermining anti-doping. A man who colluded with a friend to taunt Lemond about his experience of sexual abuse as a child, with the aim of bullying him out of speaking the truth.
All a big bunch of vile sh1tbags, to be honest.