Official Lance Armstrong Thread **READ POST #1 BEFORE POSTING**

[funnytanlines]

i think the sponsorship extension is a credit to the current RS team members who have given the team more wins and podiums since LA retired. we still need to see what happens if (or when) LA is indicted though. i'm sure there are clauses built into those contracts.

also, if the GJ has voted against it we would have all heard about it by now, most of all from lance.

Wonder what the sponsors know about the grand jury investigation? Has the status of the federal investigation been key to this sponsorship extension. Am glad they are staying on. Am sure alll of you are too


http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/8...ioShack-will-continue-for-two-more-years.aspx

 

[thehog]

Drumroll!!!

 

[JRTinMA]

Drumroll!!!

You may want to hold off. I suspect it will be west coast based. Start the drumroll in about 4 hours.

 

[Bala Verde]

Don't know if it was posted before, but dutch newspaper said yesterday that RS will continue sponsorship of the team till 2013

radioshack continues till 2013

De wielerploeg RadioShack blijft in elk geval tot eind 2013 bestaan. De hoofdsponsor heeft het contract met 2 jaar verlengd, zo maakte de Belgische teammanager Johan Bruyneel vandaag bekend.
Aanvankelijk had RadioShack aangekondigd na dit seizoen te stoppen als geldschieter, één jaar nadat voormalig kopman Lance Armstrong zijn carrière beëindigde.

'Dit laat zien dat deze samenwerking verder gaat dan één rijder', aldus Bruyneel

 

[Anonymous]

Drumroll!!!

I had been wondering where you had got to.

 

[thehog]

I had been wondering where you had got to.

I'm lucky enough to be live on the scene.

ESPN.......

 

[thirteen]

I'm lucky enough to be live on the scene.

ESPN.......

you tease!

 

[veganrob]

I'm lucky enough to be live on the scene.

ESPN.......

You're killing me man

 

[JRTinMA]

You're killing me man

Nothing draws a crowd like a crowd. I know a guy who knows a guy that says the ol' interwebs has beat us again. No charges today.

 

[gobuck]

hog what's up?

 

[JRTinMA]

Leave Clemens alone!! Cyclist mentioned too. From the NYT.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/02/s...worth-pursuing-anymore.html?_r=1&pagewanted=2

 

[Cimacoppi49]

So Armstrong is planning to go to France. This is like giving the US Attorney the finger. Makes it more likely indictments will come down before the end of the Tour.

 

[Anonymous]

well that was an anticlimax.

Be willing to bet it happens before the third week of the tour though.

 

[PotentialPro]

I think a better question is, where is theHog at?

 

[thirteen]

well that was an anticlimax.

Be willing to bet it happens before the third week of the tour though.

what did i miss (or not miss, as the case may be)?

 

[skippythepinhead]

what did i miss (or not miss, as the case may be)?

Apparently, nothing. Just a whole lot of it.

 

[Anonymous]

Nothing draws a crowd like a crowd. I know a guy who knows a guy that says the ol' interwebs has beat us again. No charges today.

If there is one thing you can say about The Hog, he never misses an opportunity to be wrong about when something will happen.

 

[mewmewmew13]

I have faith...

 

[Oldman]

I'm lucky enough to be live on the scene.

ESPN.......

Speculation had the Clemens case teeing up before Lance's. I don't think much would change that unless Lance disappeared or something dramatic.

 

[goober]

well that was an anticlimax.

Be willing to bet it happens before the third week of the tour though.

I'll take that bet and give you 3 months on top of it.

 

[MarkvW]

So Armstrong is planning to go to France. This is like giving the US Attorney the finger. Makes it more likely indictments will come down before the end of the Tour.

I doubt that the US Attorney cares in the slightest whether Lance Armstrong visits a bike race. Such a visit would trigger an indictment only in a fantasy.

 

[veganrob]

The GJ has no interest in putting on a show by doing something at the Tour. They work on their own time line. When they are ready it will be GO.

 

[sartain]

Don't know if it was posted before, but dutch newspaper said yesterday that RS will continue sponsorship of the team till 2013

radioshack continues till 2013

Another interesting tidbit . . . it looks like Nike has just re-signed Mike Vick to its stable of pitchmen. Even if LA does fall and fall hard - and the jury is still out on this - I say that Nike will NEVER drop LA him as a pitchman, and I doubt Trek will either.

 

[Lajeretta4Ever]

Leave Clemens alone!! Cyclist mentioned too. From the NYT.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/02/s...worth-pursuing-anymore.html?_r=1&pagewanted=2

Geez, that photo of Clemens looks like he swallowed Bjane Riis after Bajane swallowed Jan Ullrich.

 

[El Oso]

Another interesting tidbit . . . it looks like Nike has just re-signed Mike Vick to its stable of pitchmen. Even if LA does fall and fall hard - and the jury is still out on this - I say that Nike will NEVER drop LA him as a pitchman, and I doubt Trek will either.

Nike rarely drops people. See Tiger. I think Vick was one of the few athletes they didn't stand by. Even with Kobe they stayed with him, they just didn't push him as much as they would have until a couple years passed.