The letter from Ashenden is awesome (linked in that CN article from velocity). A well deserved railing. We need more heroes in our sport like Ashenden.
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blackcat said:HELLO!!!???
Armstrong purportedly attempted to have LEMOND indicted by former teamates. With said bribes.
Read 23 pages o' replies, no mention.
sittingbison said:Good point. Perhaps the poor old befuddled drunk was actually remembering the $300k reward LANCE offered for information on drug cheating by Greg LeMond but got confused?
BroDeal said:This could be a typical Liggett commentary screw-up with identities. Somewhere in the back recesses of his adled brain, he sort of recalled that someone was offered a pay-off. He blurted out that a person in Boulder was proffered money to accuse Armstrong. Paul was not there to point out his mistakes. A bit later he will bump into Paul, who will correct him. It will turn out that Liggett was in Boulder, and the offer was not to rat out Lance but to badmouth the USADA. By that time it will be pointless to mention it because any astute watcher will have already figured out his mistake.
blackcat said:HELLO!!!???
Armstrong purportedly attempted to have LEMOND indicted by former teamates. With said bribes.
Read 23 pages o' replies, no mention.
http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/2010/jul/19/lance-takes-umbrage-with-lemonds-claim/86TDFWinner said:When Did this happen, or were/are you referring to the "I can get ten of your teammates to say you.doped too Greg" bs he's tried spewing for over a.decade as well,again with not 1 CREDIBLE source to back up said claim.
When
86TDFWinner said:When Did this happen...
krebs303 said:
Microchip said:I found that Liggett sounded desperate. If that's a correct conclusion, I can see why - the CN article noted that he has business interests with Lance. He must be pacing the floor every single night worrying to death about what's going to happen.
sittingbison said:In 2010 LeMond told the German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung that Armstrong tried to pay someone $300,000 to say LeMond used a banned drug
He-manuelle Sella said:“But I’ve been with him on his private jet when he’s been reading stuff on Cyclingnews and he’s gone, ‘god damn it look at what they’re saying about me again’ and he just passes his computer over to his friends.”
Roland Rat said:Yeah, I thought that too.
But I doubt it's to do with business interests. Liggett is 69 and already very wealthy. I'd put more money on LA having dirt on him (perhaps he got intimate with Candy on the jet?) and LA is blackmailing him.
Or maybe that's just giving Liggett too much credit.
Roland Rat said:Yeah, I thought that too.
But I doubt it's to do with business interests. Liggett is 69 and already very wealthy. I'd put more money on LA having dirt on him (perhaps he got intimate with Candy on the jet?) and LA is blackmailing him.
Or maybe that's just giving Liggett too much credit.
gree0232 said:Amazing, I wonder if the Lance Haters catch the irony?
You see, Phil Ligget has at least one 'anonymous' witness on USADA. Looks like we'll have to make USADA a coercive deal wherein they meet at a location, time, and with a panel of Phil Liggets choosing to provide the evidence that he is lying?Othereise they have to dissolve as a federal agency.
Oh yes, he cannot name the name, because the Lance Haters would intimidate him into silence ... er, or make conspiratorial claims that someone has dirt on him ... but provide no evidence.
Its all kosher right?
Thanks Phil, for perfectly pointing on the utter hypocrisy of this entire situation.
Roland Rat said:Did the clinic ever come to a conclusion as to who the prime candidate for the bribe was? FLandis? (had private chats with Greg about doping so easy to claim, needed money...)
Roland Rat said:What, the irony of LA (by proxy) accusing the USADA of utilising the same tactics that he uses? Yes, that is pretty ironic.
sittingbison said:I suspect "irony" is one of the concepts Lance failed to learn when he didnt finish high school