He is an old man. YAWN. Best to ignore him than to keep him in the news.
He is an old man. YAWN. Best to ignore him than to keep him in the news.
I'm afraid Lance would be fairly competitive in his age group in ultra events like 10k swims or 50k trail ultras
and I'm even further afraid that lots of sponsor dollars could follow such a thing
It would be a hoot to see him at the local 5k charity run tho [guessing he's sub 18:00 fairly easy /tangent]
Athletically, I crave that suffering. And sure, I've suffered in many other ways, and not anything I ever wanted or craved, but it happened.
When you open each podcast you mention WEDU. Tell me about that.
I'm building a new endurance platform called WEDUSport. That will be the over-arching brand.
"WEDU" is actually the answer to a question. Say there's a marathon in 95-degree weather... tons of people are going to look at that and say, "Who would want to do that?"
Go to the start line and there are thousands of people who would answer, "We do."
That's the idea behind the name. To many people, endurance events have this element of crazy to them. Who would want to do that?
Well, "we do." So, WEDU.
Lance was set to race the Imogene Pass Run this year, but pulled out due to injuries.
http://www.telluridenews.com/news/article_6f82b458-75e9-11e6-b4fa-1b32fd0dd9cc.html
Lance is a great guy. Everybody in that time period was on epo and all that stuff, so I consider his wins legitimate.
Dumoulin wrote:
Lance is a great guy. Everybody in that time period was on epo and all that stuff, so I consider his wins legitimate.
He really is. This one time I was going through some heavy stuff and I happened to see him in the airport lounge sitting at the bar. Years before Oprah and all that. Had two beers with him and he totally changed my perspective. It's funny...I told him what I was going through and then he started talking about being diagnosed with cancer and then coming back to win the Tour a million times...it put things in perspective. In the end, I realized my stuff wasn't too heavy to overcome.
And yes, we did end up winning that tournament.
OP. Please don't plagiarize. You need to link the source:
A man who is paid a salary wrote that article. The organizaiton that pays that salary needs to get a few pennies from people clicking on the link.
Little shake weight anyone? wrote:
Dumoulin wrote:Lance is a great guy. Everybody in that time period was on epo and all that stuff, so I consider his wins legitimate.
He really is. This one time I was going through some heavy stuff and I happened to see him in the airport lounge sitting at the bar. Years before Oprah and all that. Had two beers with him and he totally changed my perspective. It's funny...I told him what I was going through and then he started talking about being diagnosed with cancer and then coming back to win the Tour a million times...it put things in perspective. In the end, I realized my stuff wasn't too heavy to overcome.
And yes, we did end up winning that tournament.
I don't believe he is a great guy. He DESTROYED several people's lives by keeping up that lie. I guess you'll argue he inspired many more millions to beat cancer.
My reply would be, "He used CANCER to make himself millions and all of it was based on a fraud."
Maybe he's great at motivating people with cancer. He's also one of the greatest con men in history. And the WORSE part of it to me is how when questioned about doping, he used cancer to say there is no way he'd do that to his body as it's dangerous.
IF you want to dope, go ahead. But then when questioned about it, don't say, "No way am I doping. I'm a cancer survivor and role model. I would never do that as I'm inspiring millions" as that's basically what he did. He basically said there is no way I'm on drugs as I'm a role model and imagine how bad that will look.
Well guess what, I'm now telling you it does indeed look VERY bad.
Lance Armstrong's competition ban partially lifted
LRC Update: The OP forgot to link to the source:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/cycling/2016/09/07/lance-armstrong-cycling-ban-partially-lifted/89981404/A man who is paid a salary wrote that article. The organizaiton that pays that salary needs to get a few pennies from people clicking on the link.
Little shake weight anyone? wrote:
Dumoulin wrote:Lance is a great guy. Everybody in that time period was on epo and all that stuff, so I consider his wins legitimate.
He really is. This one time I was going through some heavy stuff and I happened to see him in the airport lounge sitting at the bar. Years before Oprah and all that. Had two beers with him and he totally changed my perspective. It's funny...I told him what I was going through and then he started talking about being diagnosed with cancer and then coming back to win the Tour a million times...it put things in perspective. In the end, I realized my stuff wasn't too heavy to overcome.
And yes, we did end up winning that tournament.
Great story. I met Lance too when I was in Vegas for a dodgeball tournament years ago. My team fell on some hard times and he saw me down in the dumps at the hotel. I told him I was going to quit but after he told me his experience with cancer I realized my situation wasn't bad at all. It motivated me to give it another shot.
And yes, my team ended up winning that tournament too.
WHOOOSH! Actually it hit you in the face.
Little shake weight anyone? wrote:
Dumoulin wrote:Lance is a great guy. Everybody in that time period was on epo and all that stuff, so I consider his wins legitimate.
He really is. This one time I was going through some heavy stuff and I happened to see him in the airport lounge sitting at the bar. Years before Oprah and all that. Had two beers with him and he totally changed my perspective. It's funny...I told him what I was going through and then he started talking about being diagnosed with cancer and then coming back to win the Tour a million times...it put things in perspective. In the end, I realized my stuff wasn't too heavy to overcome.
And yes, we did end up winning that tournament.
He's an a$$hole. I know people who were on the national cycling team with him and he would straight up punch people in the face, throw them under the bus, and get them kicked off the team if they did not take the drugs that he did. The drugs caused the cancer, I don't know why people don't understand this. He also crashed a Jeep into a tree while drunk and injured his lady passenger. Of course, this was swept under the rug.
#1 - thats a f*cking quote from a movie
#2 - you anti-doping douche bags are the vegans of the sporting world. constantly obsessing over what everyone else puts in their bodies and acting like you're so damn pure and without sin. why do you care so much about what some bulls*it organization arbitrarily decides you can and can't take?
Lance was no better and no worse than all of his peers in his chosen professional sport, he just was the most successful, so they used him as the example to crucify to try and clean up the image of a dirty sport.
Lance dissed Travis Tygart of the USADA. The problem was that Tygart was as much sociopath as Armstrong. Armstrong should have realized Tygart would never back off because the ultimate prize was LA. And just as Armstrong would never back down and admit using anything to Tygart. It was the perfect storm.
Tygart let 10? of Armstrong's co-dopers off with minor sentences, while dropping the hammer on LA. That is pretty much all you need to know.
I met Lance twice (once in 1999 not long after he won his first Tour and once later at a charity event). He was cordial but a little aloof. Now I am guessing that since I was not in a position to help him I was not worth his time.
I have met folks who Lance reached out to after a cancer diagnosis and they said how nice he was. Then I have met folks that he sought to destroy and read plenty of stories (read Tyler Hamilton's book). So Lance is complex.
He is a complex person.
Don't Diss Travis Tygart wrote:
Lance dissed Travis Tygart of the USADA. The problem was that Tygart was as much sociopath as Armstrong. Armstrong should have realized Tygart would never back off because the ultimate prize was LA. And just as Armstrong would never back down and admit using anything to Tygart. It was the perfect storm.
Tygart let 10? of Armstrong's co-dopers off with minor sentences, while dropping the hammer on LA. That is pretty much all you need to know.
Yep, that is how it often works. Tygart approached it like a criminal racketeering case.
rojo hasn't seen Dodgeball?
Cmon man, I thought you were a sports guy!