Lance The Great said:
You are all speculating, fully grown men, downgrading the achivements of an athlete who has done so much for the sport & for cancer.
Your ****ing pathetic, the lot of you.
I have been reading these forums on and off for many years, and have never signed up, but reading this post has prompted me to join so I can post what I think.
I am a 32 year old guy from Melbourne Australia. I own a small business doing print management. I enjoy riding my road bike allot and love the sport of cycling. I race now and then and have won the odd C and B grade race. But I have no real natural talent at it.
Since most people that post on here are of similar ilk to each other you will probably claim and think that I am "Lance the Great" just signed in under a different name. I'll also get called a "troll" etc.
The reason I have signed up is because I agree 100% with "Lance the Great". I am not really a lance fan, nor am I a hater. But I have never seen such and unintelligent, pathetic gathering of people in all of my born days.
The vast majority of the high-posters on this board make me embarrassed to call myself a cyclist. It seems that if you consider yourself a "cycling fan" then you need to hate Lance. As if it's not cool becuase non-cycling peole like Armstrong.
The man has never failed a drug test and has become the greatest TdF rider in its history thus far. Not to mention the massive profile boost he has given the sport in the USA and the rest of the world.
Any involvement with drugs / doping is pure speculation. And intelligent people don't base their arguments on speculation, rumour, hear-say and innuendo. They base it on hard facts.
"Lance the Great" is correct, you lot are pathetic.
If you put as much effort into your lives, job, family and cycling as you do snivelling away on this forum then you wouldn't be the sad miserable bunch you are.
All you do is try to cut down a man who has bought joy and hope to millions of people. Your words on here stink of self loathing and a deep-seated knowledge that you will never amount to anything spectacular or have a positive effect on people’s lives.
You can't make yourself better, so you seek to bring down those better than yourself.