thehog said:Really? Are we still trotting at this line to excuse the his behaviour?
Where is an excuse? I pointed out facts that you and your buddies can't see through your obsessive, irrational hate for a person you don't even know.
Send a memo to Roger Federer while you'll at it and tell he'd win more (if thats possible) if he became mean and nasty.
Their are always exceptions (like how there are people who don't like Armstrong but don't feel the need to insult and attack anyone who doesn't agree with everything they say about him), but you are a fool if you think Federer never stepped on anyone or that he does not have an ego.
This is utter ********. Alberto Contador will probably become the greatest winning cyclist of all time - he's nothing like Armstrong was in terms of ego. Its simply not true that you have to behave like this to be successful.
Do you mean the guy who is fighting a well deserved doping ban? The guy who has has a history of riding for teams that have had a lot of doping and DS's that are known for having dopers? Now, remember your obsessive/irrational hate for Armstrong also extends to Bruyneel, so you cant just dismiss this. Do you mean the guy who ignores team strategy in order to have his own personal success? The guy who takes advantage of other riders mechanical issues to help him win? The guy with the dumb vistory salute that he has created a logo and plastered all over himself and his bike? I could go on but I think you get my point about Contador.
No, you don't have be an a-hole to be a great athlete but you do have to have a big ego (just doing the training to get to that point means you have to think you are great and let people know this in order to be able to put yourself above everything else in order to do the necessary training) and you have to step on people (because of what I mentioned in parenthesis above and the fact that people will always want to stop you from succeeding.) in order to succeed. Take a look at some of the greatest athletes in every sport and see how many are simply super people with no reports of ego, being an a-hole or stepping on people. The list is very small and its not a coincidence.
..and to trot out the doping is not like raping someone is digesting. Its the same routine of using the cancer shield. So its not rape so its ok then? Please. Its offensive to even bring the two together.
Digesting? Perhaps your anti-Armstrong rage is affecting your spelling.
Where did I say doping is ok? Why do you guys always put words in peoples mouths in your arguments about how evil Armstrong is? If your arguments are factually based, logical and intelligent, like you guys always claim, then you shouldn't need to do this.
Why have the two people who mentioned this not mentioned the fact that I also used murder as part of my point? I find this interesting.
My point, that was too tough for you guys to get your heads around, was that doping is not the most evil thing in the world...despite you guys making it out to be. Nowhere am I excusing anyone's doping...despite what you try to claim.
2002 just called and want their Lance dope-defence rhoeotric back.
Wasn't the "...just called and want their...back" meme from the mid-90's?
No matter, I am used to you guys spinning, lying, ignoring, insulting and attacking in your desperate quest to get rid of anyone who does not buy into every thought you have in your irrationally obsessive hate for Armstrong.