PhiberAwptik said:
Don't go getting out of hand. He who shall not be named (even though you guys can't keep his name out of your mouth's) is a guilty doper, narcissist, megalomaniac, etc. I never said he wasn't. But a lot of the stuff that gets said in here is ridiculous.
Much of it unfounded, or unconfirmed. Like stuff from e-online...LOL....what a joke.
A source close to Armstrong said last week that, to his knowledge, no one from Austin who is connected to the cyclist, including his former wife, Kristin, has been contacted by Novitzky.
Novitzky did not return calls late last week.
Bill Stapleton, Armstrong's agent and personal lawyer, said he called Armstrong's main sponsors in May to make them aware of Landis' allegations. None of them canceled.
We've made an enormous amount of progress in a short period of time," said Livestrong president and CEO Doug Ulman. "I don't think we would have realized this kind of international attention in the past 18 months if Lance wasn't racing. There's no way."
The foundation has raised $5.4 million this year through May, a 9 percent increase from the same period last year
Sales of Livestrong merchandise, including the signature black and yellow T-shirts and cycling jerseys, have jumped 22 percent to $1.86 million through the first five months of 2010, according to the foundation.
"There are moments when certainly I wonder if I made the right decision, on many levels," he said. "There's the controversy level to strictly an issue of time management. But I always get back to the same place. I do think I came back for the right reasons."
http://www.statesman.com/sports/tou...back-for-the-right-reasons-773057.html?page=3
Armstrong said he expects more doping headlines to pop up as the Tour sweeps through the Netherlands and Belgium and into France during July, and they will make him wonder why he came out of retirement.
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