Lance Armstrong (USA, cycling), disgraced PED former 7-time TdF winner, hospitalized to get head checked after bike wreck

Pretty sure he hasn’t paid back anywhere $111 million...link?

Tom Blake trail wrote:

Disgraced US cyclist Lance Armstrong, who was embroiled in one of the biggest doping scandals in sporting history...

Thanks for such a descriptive thread title and all the background info. If you had simply just written "Lance Armstrong" I would have no idea who you were talking about.

gloria wrote:

Let's admit it. Lance Armstong embarrassed

America by cheating the Tour Day France

seven time. It needs to be stated doing

cheat because it will end up biting you

in ass.

Lance did nothing wrong.

I think you’re off by $100M... wrote:

Pretty sure he hasn’t paid back anywhere $111 million...link?

I guess I pressed 1 too many times by accident.

Rash-putin wrote:

gloria wrote:

Let's admit it. Lance Armstong embarrassed

America by getting caught by trying to compete with the Tour Day France

seven time. It needs to be stated doing

cheat because it will end up biting you

in ass.

Lance did nothing wrong.

Fixed

Professional athletes get caught doping all the time. Penalty is 1/4 to 1/2 a season and they don't give any money back. Pro sports wildly popular. Bike racing watched a few days a year during the tdf and everybody assumes the winner also cheated.

Sand Dunes wrote:

I saw this yesterday on instagram, I feel sorry for one of my heros.

It’s not surprising that a POS like you idolizes a man with no integrity. There is no excuse for cheating. Every decent person respects honesty; it’s the low life scum of the world that idolize the dishonest. Integrity used to matter and the lack of it is not how to make a country great. Crawl back under your rock.

el hombre wrote:

Tom Blake trail wrote:

Disgraced US cyclist Lance Armstrong, who was embroiled in one of the biggest doping scandals in sporting history, has been hospitalized after wrecking

What was a bigger doping scandal? Maybe Ben Johnson because it was during the Olympics?

Lance's scandal was way bigger than the Ben Johnson situation. Ben Johnson was a nobody. Lance was a movement who ruthlessly hounded those who doubted him.

After Nike made a bundle off this guy, they then threw him under the boss as if they were innocents taken in by this hustler.

He was blamed for all of doping in biking even though every top riding was doping (19 of top 20 in one Tour de France tested positive).

It speaks to the intelligence of Alan e’s remaining fanboys that they still claim he did no wrong... even after he went on national TV and admitted that he did.

HERO???? You've got to be kidding!!! He was a CHEATER AND LIAR!!!

joemama wrote:

HERO???? You've got to be kidding!!! He was a CHEATER AND LIAR!!!

+1. And actually I think what bothers me more than his cheating and lying was his bullying of people who tried to call him to account.

Integrity matters wrote:

It’s not surprising that a POS like you idolizes a man with no integrity. There is no excuse for cheating. Every decent person respects honesty; it’s the low life scum of the world that idolize the dishonest. Integrity used to matter and the lack of it is not how to make a country great. Crawl back under your rock.

Are you implying you've never lied once in your life?

All these Lefties and their moral high ground judging this man. Somehow, I'm not surprised.

Whole thing was staged.... wrote:

At least he had the bright idea of taking a selfie and plastering on Instagram for self-promotion.

Isn't that what Instragram (and others) is all about: Self-promotion?

Why does this bother people so much? How does his posting to Instagram affect you? How does anything he does not affect you?

Just to promote him, listen to the interview he did for Freakonomics podcast. If you hate Lance it will probably not change your mind, but it might give you a little bit of insight into who he is now.

81611 wrote:

I rode Tom Blake in the middle of a 40mi mountain bike on Saturday and ride it regularily. There's no part of that trail that is beyond intermediate technical. Lance just blew it and messed up. So many other nastier trails around here that could mess you up...

I rode the double black Congo trail off the side of Highlands Ski Area today. Definitely a grip it and rip it blast down the mountain -

https://www.mtbproject.com/trail/3740539/congo

Funny things about riding a trail...it only takes a second of loss of concentration to send you flying.

I think you’re off by $100M... wrote:

Pretty sure he hasn’t paid back anywhere $111 million...link?

I think he lost that much in terms of sponsorship, but it is reported that he paid $10M to SCA, $5M to USPS and $2.75M to Landis.

tall horse wrote:

Integrity matters wrote:

It’s not surprising that a POS like you idolizes a man with no integrity. There is no excuse for cheating. Every decent person respects honesty; it’s the low life scum of the world that idolize the dishonest. Integrity used to matter and the lack of it is not how to make a country great. Crawl back under your rock.

Are you implying you've never lied once in your life?

That’s really what you think he was implying? Does being that stupid hurt? Like actual physical pain from carrying the enormity of your stupidity?

Rash-putin wrote:

gloria wrote:

Let's admit it. Lance Armstong embarrassed

America by cheating the Tour Day France

seven time. It needs to be stated doing

cheat because it will end up biting you

in ass.

Lance did nothing wrong.

+1