The Lance Armstrong Apology Tour

[Race Radio]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...rmstrong-floyd-landis-lawsuit-doping/1831665/

Floyd is first.

Floyd and Betsy have to tape the apology call they get from Lance......There will be some Hors catégorie profanity

The interview tour does not stop with Oprah. There will be more

 

[Fatclimber]

A kinder, gentler F***wadstrong.

 

[BroDeal]

I want to hear the "discussion" between Landis and Armstrong. It would be hilarious.

"Remember that time I made fun of you when you lost the Tour of Georgia to a doped up Tommy D.? Sorry 'bout dat. My bad."

Then there will be Emma O'Reilly.

"Remember that time I spread lies that you were a prostitute? Sorry 'bout dat. My bad."

Then Simeoni.

"Remember that time when I would not agree to ride the Giro unless your team was not invited, thus depriving you of what should have been one of the highlights of your career, riding the Giro as the Italian national champion? Sorry 'bout dat. My bad."

And Greg LeMond.

"Remember that time when I had Livestrong employees, paid with cancer donations, badmouth you on every message board and newspaper comment section they could find? Sorry 'bout dat. My bad."

Fifty year old motorist.

"Remember that time I dragged you out of your car and beat the hell out of you? Sorry 'bout dat. My bad."

Iban Mayo.

"Remember that time you smoked me in the Dauphine Libere so I called my good buddy Hein Verbruggen to have the UCI hound you until you were finally forced out of the sport and ended up driving trucks? Sorry 'bout dat. My bad."

Betsy Andeu.

"Remember that time you registered with the Paceline forum and I had the admin pull your password so I could access your email account? Sorry 'bout dat. My bad."

 

[D-Queued]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...rmstrong-floyd-landis-lawsuit-doping/1831665/

Floyd is first.

Floyd and Betsy have to tape the apology call they get from Lance......There will be some Hors catégorie profanity

The interview tour does not stop with Oprah. There will be more

Incredible, but no surprise. If it weren't all so predictable.

The bus left the 'time to confess and apologize' station a long time ago.

But, I really can't say it any better than this article in the NY Daily News today:

To the end this guy thinks he can play the whole world for suckers.

...

Really, the best part of this most recent narrative from Armstrong — originally leaked by him and his people as a way of testing the waters — was that he somehow has information about his own doping that the United States Anti-Doping Agency somehow needs. As if USADA needs more than the 1,000 pages on Armstrong that it already has.

...

Dave.

 

[BroDeal]

Anyone want to lay odds on whether Armstrong will admit to doping as a teenager? My bet is that through all the interviews he uses or alludes to a date around 1995 or even later. I cannot really see him saying, "I started doping years before I got to Europe. Hell, I started before I got out of Texas."

Maybe we should have a poll with a range of years from 1988 to 1998.

 

[Zweistein]

Isn't this about the Landis's whistleblowers lawsuit?

 

[peterst6906]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...rmstrong-floyd-landis-lawsuit-doping/1831665/

Floyd is first.

Floyd and Betsy have to tape the apology call they get from Lance......There will be some Hors catégorie profanity

The interview tour does not stop with Oprah. There will be more

I hope everyone he tries to reconcile with rebuffs him as Landis currently is.

The only thing Armstrong is sorry for is being caught and exposed. Nothing else, but sorry for himself.

He doesn't deserve to have his empty words accepted.

 

[Jeremiah]

Anyone want to lay odds on whether Armstrong will admit to doping as a teenager? My bet is that through all the interviews he uses or alludes to a date around 1995 or even later. I cannot really see him saying, "I started doping years before I got to Europe. Hell, I started before I got out of Texas."

Maybe we should have a poll with a range of years from 1988 to 1998.

I'll raise you one, I was told 1987.

 

[S2Sturges]

Isn't this about the Landis's whistleblowers lawsuit?

The more cynical of us would believe so...
Reckon the conversation between the two might be interesting, maybe along the lines of "Hey Floyd, got your email... did one of your fingers get stuck on the zero key..?... Breaking my b*lls here, I ain't made out of money, how about a grand and some Michelob Ultra, I've got ten pallets of that cr*p in my garage .."

 

[Benotti69]

Is he gonna say sorry to Landis through gritted teeth hoping Landis will pull out of the Qui Tam case?

I really hope these apologies all get taped and made into a sound and visual document. The comedy value will be huge.

 

[airstream]

Who of GT riders do you root for if you hate Lance so much?

 

[Benotti69]

Who of GT riders do you root for if you hate Lance so much?

All the clean ones.

LeMond

Hampsten

and Bartali.

 

[airstream]

Lemond beat dirrty Hinault or whom? A clean rider can not beat a doper if their levels are very close. On such a high level just talent and hard work can't make one a Tour winner. As for the fact of doping, I don't have complaints about Lance. He just has to answer for organitation of the biggest doping criminal syndicate that could derail opponents like Mayo or Hamilton. But sadly he will never say about that in detail.

 

[ebandit]

life

Who of GT riders do you root for if you hate Lance so much?

the problem for me is that currently it's difficult to cheer on any gt contender

but issues surrounding lance are not just sporting.............. the great

money making fraud................lance.com

lance willl be making amends as far as it helps himself.................getting

that gravy train back on the tracks

 

[Fortyninefourteen]

I want to hear the "discussion" between Landis and Armstrong. It would be hilarious.

"Remember that time I made fun of you when you lost the Tour of Georgia to a doped up Tommy D.? Sorry 'bout dat. My bad."

Then there will be Emma O'Reilly.

"Remember that time I spread lies that you were a prostitute? Sorry 'bout dat. My bad."

Then Simeoni.

"Remember that time when I would not agree to ride the Giro unless your team was not invited, thus depriving you of what should have been one of the highlights of your career, riding the Giro as the Italian national champion? Sorry 'bout dat. My bad."

And Greg LeMond.

"Remember that time when I had Livestrong employees, paid with cancer donations, badmouth you on every message board and newspaper comment section they could find? Sorry 'bout dat. My bad."

Fifty year old motorist.

"Remember that time I dragged you out of your car and beat the hell out of you? Sorry 'bout dat. My bad."

Iban Mayo.

"Remember that time you smoked me in the Dauphine Libere so I called my good buddy Hein Verbruggen to have the UCI hound you until you were finally forced out of the sport and ended up driving trucks? Sorry 'bout dat. My bad."

Betsy Andeu.

"Remember that time you registered with the Paceline forum and I had the admin pull your password so I could access your email account? Sorry 'bout dat. My bad."

My money says that no one will believe his apology is sincere, and in every case, he will be told to go fcuk himself, which his modified anatomy may in fact accomodate.

 

[airstream]

the problem for me is that currently it's difficult to cheer on any gt contender

but issues surrounding lance are not just sporting.............. the great

money making fraud................lance.com

lance willl be making amends as far as it helps himself.................getting

that gravy train back on the tracks

To me, one who hates LA for doping and lies should not acknowledge a GT cycling whatsoever, because hating Armstrong while supporting Contador or Wiggins is unhealthy.

 

[thehog]

My money says that no one will believe his apology is sincere, and in every case, he will be told to go fcuk himself, which his modified anatomy may in fact accomodate.

Correct. Slimy.

Those "Anonymous sources" from these articles sure are leaking a lot information.

A real apology is done without the need to release it to the media.

 

[frenchfry]

Correct. Slimy.

Those "Anonymous sources" from these articles sure are leaking a lot information.

A real apology is done without the need to release it to the media.

You noticed that too.

Looks like a highly co-ordinated roll out of a calculated PR campaign, complete with increased trolling on internet forums (not naming anyone in particular...).

 

[thehog]

You noticed that too.

Looks like a highly co-ordinated roll out of a calculated PR campaign, complete with increased trolling on internet forums (not naming anyone in particular...).

"Hi Greg, its Lance. Listen I'm taping Oprah on Monday so I need to get an apology in before we to to air. So I'm sorry. Could you confirm that I called you to apologise? - I can release it by an anonymous source".

 

[86TDFWinner]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...rmstrong-floyd-landis-lawsuit-doping/1831665/

Floyd is first.

Floyd and Betsy have to tape the apology call they get from Lance......There will be some Hors catégorie profanity

The interview tour does not stop with Oprah. There will be more

Like the article mentions, the only reason Wonderboy is attempting reconcilliation w/Landis, is in hopes Floyd drops the whistleblower case and Wonderboy is off the hook financially. Basically, its only to benefit HIM, no one else. Unreal!

Floyd should continue telling LA to "f¼¤$ off".

 

[86TDFWinner]

Lemond beat dirrty Hinault or whom? A clean rider can not beat a doper if their levels are very close. On such a high level just talent and hard work can't make one a Tour winner. As for the fact of doping, I don't have complaints about Lance. He just has to answer for organitation of the biggest doping criminal syndicate that could derail opponents like Mayo or Hamilton. But sadly he will never say about that in detail.

And you know Hinault was "dirty" how? where's your proof to support such accusations?

Also, LeMond was clean and beat dopers, so your theory is wrong.

 

[86TDFWinner]

My money says that no one will believe his apology is sincere, and in every case, he will be told to go fcuk himself, which his modified anatomy may in fact accomodate.

Dont be so sure. They showed a few clips of Wonderboy and D'oprah on local tv here in SoCal, and the support from those clips by the fans was enough to make one sick. Yes. I'm sure it was shown that way for a reason, but still. Unfortunately, he'll win the hearts back of some fanboys, and we'll hear about how he's become a hero again...blah blah blah.

 

[airstream]

And you know Hinault was "dirty" how? where's your proof to support such accusations?

Also, LeMond was clean and beat dopers, so your theory is wrong.

No one knows for sure. I just try to reason in general. Tyler said EPO gives about 15% endurance extra. Doping that was used before EPO was not so effective but I doubt it gave much less. 15% in a sport where sometimes seconds decide a winner is cosmos, an irreal edge which one will never be able to close with pure talent.

IMO the thing is oldies do consider themselves clean because they had no possibility to ride on hard peds like epo and transfusions

 

[Scott SoCal]

I wonder who, in the end, has been able to get Lance to adopt the "I really, really don't want to wind up like Pete Rose" strategy.

It really is incredible that he is heading down this road right now. A coupla years from now? Sure. But it has not been so long ago LA was hiring PI's to dig up dirt on TT and the boys over at USADA.

Hell, it hasn't been that long ago that he and Bruyneel liked their credibility.

Betsy and Emma should be the sole arbiters of Lance Armstrong's sincerity.

And there's zero chance Floyd falls for this mea culpa.

 

[jam pants]

Lemond beat dirrty Hinault or whom? A clean rider can not beat a doper if their levels are very close. On such a high level just talent and hard work can't make one a Tour winner. As for the fact of doping, I don't have complaints about Lance. He just has to answer for organitation of the biggest doping criminal syndicate that could derail opponents like Mayo or Hamilton. But sadly he will never say about that in detail.

Did you mean to reply to a thread from 2007?

I think you're in the wrong decade, champ.