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

[buckle]

Zzzzzzzzzz.

Greatest most epic stage of the Tour in many years and you guys are still kicking around Lance Armstrong stories.

Boring.

I plead guilty as trolled. The discourse has been prompted by a rivalry between terrestrial UK TV stations. The BBC is smarting from the fact that nobody watched Wimbledon nor the British Grand Prix as we all attended Le Grand Depart or watched the whole thing on TV. They and C4 anticipated this eventuality with two Armstrong gigs respectively. It's a British thing. I'm sitting down to watch the highlights package and promise to be quiet.

 

[mewmewmew13]

Zzzzzzzzzz.

Greatest most epic stage of the Tour in many years and you guys are still kicking around Lance Armstrong stories.

Boring.

ffs
stay out of this thread then

 

[Race Radio]

Zzzzzzzzzz.

Greatest most epic stage of the Tour in many years and you guys are still kicking around Lance Armstrong stories.

Boring.

Greatest most epic stage of the Tour in many years and you are still trolling?

Zzzzzzzzz

 

[thehog]

Greatest most epic stage of the Tour in many years and you are still trolling?

Zzzzzzzzz

A furious internal battle seems to have blown up behind the scenes at the Livestrong Foundation in the wake of Esquire’s new story on the foundation’s controversial founder, Lance Armstrong. The cause was reported by The Los Angeles Times:

The Esquire article also reveals that his struggling cancer foundation would like to find a way to bring him back into the fold. “I think in some respects, he's waiting to be invited," Doug Ulman, president of the Livestrong Foundation, told the magazine. "And people here are waiting for him to express to them his authentic passion to be back. Both are waiting for the other to, like, make a move."

In response to this surprising news, the Associated Press contacted Livestrong for further comment. After considerable scurrying behind the scenes, including the addition of a new public relations chief, Livestrong released a statement not from Ulman, but this time from the chairman of Livestrong’s board, Jeff Garvey. Remarkably, Garvey’s statement directly and forcefully contradicted the earlier statement from Ulman, Livestrong’s president and CEO – and noted that it was being issued on behalf of the entire board of directors.:

"While we remain sincerely grateful to Lance for his leadership and investment in our mission, having him rejoin the LIVESTRONG Foundation in any capacity is not on the table. Our highest priority is serving cancer patients and survivors to the best of our ability and building a community of support for people affected by this disease. That remains our primary focus."

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/news/livestrong-reaction

Will Lance make it back to Livestrong. RR will bring the updates during the next Tour stage!

 

[gooner]

Anyone who wants to listen to Betsy can do so here. She's coming on any minute. Ger Gilroy said she wants to respond to what Emma said in her interview.

http://www.newstalk.ie/player/

 

[mewmewmew13]

Anyone who wants to listen to Betsy can do so here. She's coming on any minute. Ger Gilroy said she wants to respond to what Emma said in her interview.

http://www.newstalk.ie/player/

thanx gooner!

 

[Benotti69]

Betsy knows Armstrong's not contrite and hasn't changed

Betsy's got more balls than Lance

 

[Semper Fidelis]

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/news/livestrong-reaction

Will Lance make it back to Livestrong. RR will bring the updates during the next Tour stage!

uhhhh ohhhh.

 

[Benotti69]

Emma O'Reilly/Betsy Andreu super-podcast

http://newstalk.ie/player/podcasts/...lights/58115/0/emma_betsy_and_lance_armstrong

 

[Race Radio]

Emma O'Reilly/Betsy Andreu super-podcast

http://newstalk.ie/player/podcasts/...lights/58115/0/emma_betsy_and_lance_armstrong

Wow. Emma did not make much sense. She does say she and Walsh have not had a falling out and he is a great journalist. Hope that does not make her a target of David's "Fan Club" here. It was interesting that Emma was part of Walsh's global victory Tour, appearing in multiple interviews and events together after the USADA report.......but then Lance calls and things change

 

[thehog]

I had a listen as well. Father Bob?

And Emma was right. Walsh has become the story. For his own personal gain. He's not a very nice character is our David.

I think everyone's pain is their own. Allow them to do what they need to do. She'll learn soon enough, if it is to be. No one needs to be told.

 

[gooner]

Emma put Walsh in the acknowledgements in the book and said she wouldn't be writing it today if it wasn't for him. She said the same thing on RTE radio last week in a different interview and said she had huge respect for him. Betsy is right about The Late Late Show appearance and watching that everything was grand between them on it.

 

[del1962]

Emma put Walsh in the acknowledgements in the book and said she wouldn't be writing it today if it wasn't for him. She said the same thing on RTE radio last week in a different interview and said she had huge respect for him. Betsy is right about The Late Late Show appearance and watching that everything was grand between them on it.

Anyway Walsh is calling Emma a real hero on twitter even this week, some on here want to make out that they have fallen out, does not seem the case

To all who have watched Armstrong documentaries and tweeted their appreciation, thank you. Real heroes were Betsy, Emma, Greg, Steve Swart.

 

[gooner]

Anyway Walsh is calling Emma a real hero on twitter even this week, some on here want to make out that they have fallen out, does not seem the case

Emma tweeted similar back to Walsh afterwards.

 

[mewmewmew13]

Walsh may have been a strange man in a strange land with Sky..
but he started the Lance ball rolling.

I think it is wrong to make him out a bad guy..

Emma may change her tune again after a few more months of 'human relationship' with Lance...things always go haywire when he's involved.

 

[RobbieCanuck]

Wow. Emma did not make much sense. She does say she and Walsh have not had a falling out and he is a great journalist. Hope that does not make her a target of David's "Fan Club" here. It was interesting that Emma was part of Walsh's global victory Tour, appearing in multiple interviews and events together after the USADA report.......but then Lance calls and things change

I found her whole interview one where she continuously contradicted herself. I don't think she has a very realistic view of the issues arising out of the scandal. And the fact she is now friends with Lance in my view shows very immature judgement. She seems to have some emotional attachment to the story she cannot let go of. It is almost as though she needs his validation although it is hard to understand why? After the way he treated her it would seem to me she would just want to put him in a past life and move on.

But she is "clinging" to the story with her book and it is hard to understand the motive for the book, except perhaps from a psychosocial perspective. I have not read the book, but if it is as ambiguous and disconnected as her interview, it doesn't sound to me like it would be a good read!

 

[Berzin]

This should give an insight into the type of people around Armstrong who were necessary and instrumental in carrying out his agenda.

Whatever she faced when she was being attacked, it all seems to have been forgotten.

What she was really crying out was for Lance to like her, like a typical teenage cheerleader when the captain of the football team dumps her for an even prettier tramp.

Ema O"Reilly is officially boring, along with David Walsh, Paul Kimmage and all the rest.

 

[Alpe73]

I don't think she has a very realistic view of the issues arising out of the scandal.

Well that's easy for you to say, Robbie, having been so much closer to the ground when it was all going down ... than Emma ever was.

FFS ... retirement and 'chat' rooms ... what a deadly mix.

 

[BroDeal]

This should give an insight into the type of people around Armstrong who were necessary and instrumental in carrying out his agenda.

Whatever she faced when she was being attacked, it all seems to have been forgotten.

What she was really crying out was for Lance to like her, like a typical teenage cheerleader when the captain of the football team dumps her for an even prettier tramp.

Or maybe except for a few pathetic axe grinders with an agenda who want to blame everything on Armstrong most have recognized the era for what is was and have moved on.

 

[mewmewmew13]

Emma's interview is a trainwreck.
She is trying so hard not to blame Lance..so she constantly bashes herself..

Definitely bending backwards to make herself look bad but rounding Armstrong and others into a big group hug...Hincapie, JOHAN, Tyler...gheezus

"You could see a bit of sincerity when my name came up..." that is a little weird to me..looking for some approval from Lance..

She keeps talking about her bond with Lance..

It is a really confusing gushing of statements...
the interviewer is constantly sounding at a loss...to understand her..

 

[thehog]

Or maybe except for a few pathetic axe grinders with an agenda who want to blame everything on Armstrong most have recognized the era for what is was and have moved on.

Talansky & TVG rode super today. Nibali put on a show of bike racing that's been lacking in the Sky-era & few still want to kick around the Armstrong can endlessly.

 

[mewmewmew13]

Talansky & TVG rode super today. Nibali put on a show of bike racing that's been lacking in the Sky-era & few still want to kick around the Armstrong can endlessly.

Originally Posted by BroDeal
"Or maybe except for a few pathetic axe grinders with an agenda who want to blame everything on Armstrong most have recognized the era for what is was and have moved on."

Really..this is the thread where anyone can discuss Armstrong and related stuff..if you don't like others discussing it then don't bother to troll this thread..
I don't chase others down to monitor their discussion..

 

[PosterBill]

I found her whole interview one where she continuously contradicted herself. I don't think she has a very realistic view of the issues arising out of the scandal. And the fact she is now friends with Lance in my view shows very immature judgement. She seems to have some emotional attachment to the story she cannot let go of. It is almost as though she needs his validation although it is hard to understand why? After the way he treated her it would seem to me she would just want to put him in a past life and move on.

But she is "clinging" to the story with her book and it is hard to understand the motive for the book, except perhaps from a psychosocial perspective. I have not read the book, but if it is as ambiguous and disconnected as her interview, it doesn't sound to me like it would be a good read!

Ah I think the clinic overreacts to much on some of this. Their is a lot of grey area in all of this case. Armstrong deserved to be a villain because of the way he treated people but I can't make him a villain for 30 years of doping that goes back to at least Merck. That's basically what I believe Emma was saying. The fact that she can forgive and move on is valid, good for her

 

[Race Radio]

I don't chase others down to monitor their discussion..

Yeah, someone who would do that could have a

unhinged obsession

 

[BroDeal]

Really..this is the thread where anyone can discuss Armstrong and related stuff..if you don't like others discussing it then don't bother to troll this thread..
I don't chase others down to monitor their discussion..

Then let's discuss something other than the usual whack jobs posting their conspiracy theories about someone being a tool of Armstrong because he or she did not express same undying hatred for Armstrong that the nutters have held for the last fifteen years.