Kristin Armstrong Adresses Recent Events

"But if she's going to come out with some half-arsed between-the-lines drivel about being sorry -- while at the same time living comfortably on her dirty money divorce settlement -- she would be better off just shutting up."

-agreed. you didn't want to talk earlier when the character of lemond and his wife were being torn to shreds. now you want to talk? feeling guilty? guess what? it's too litle too late. you enabled your husband to cheat people out of millions. 5 million in one fell swoop, in fact. she's a turd in my book too. who cares if she can write?

think again wrote:

But you paint her as if she was a gold digger which she wasn't.

Maybe not originally, but she sure is now and has been for quite a while. Love alone didn't get her on and keep her on the doping train, she saw plenty of personal benefit to her role. Her continued dirty income stream is far more important to her than her own personal integrity. I've never taken that chick seriously and have no problem lumping her in with the likes of Sheryl Crow and Ashley Olsen. I feel sorry for her children, having to grow up looking up to a happily willing liar-for-money like her.

I don't have an opinion on Kristin Armstrong one way or the other, but I do have one on almost everyone in this thread: you've come across as overly-simplistic, black and white, unsympathetic, gaping and gigantic assh-les.

Why do people always drag their kids into things? How many time does she mention them? Is she special because she has kids she loves? She lives in a dream world.

MG1982 wrote:

Interesting Kristin Armstrong blog from yesterday (October 18).

"To the world, Lance may be a source of admiration or suspicion, but to me he is simply my wasband and the father of my children. His choices were, and are, his. And mine are mine. And they haven’t always been pretty. I am sorry if this is disappointing to you."

http://milemarkers.runnersworld.com/

Her writing makes me puke - flowery, psychobabble, cloying claptrap. Just a bunch of evasive sh&t to skirt around the fact she knew what he was up to.

She was the final straw that made be cancel my RW subscription a few years ago when she started writing for them. Her articles were total BS. She is a rich kid trying to pass herself off as a typical middle class runner.

No doubt she knows a lot of stuff about Lance but he is her income and she isn't going to do anything to put that in danger.

Cancer steals, cheats and lies as apparently so does Lance. I just hope Kristin does the right thing. Go Kristin Go!

You guys are a sorry bunch. It is one thing to attack Lance Armstrong, but now you are attacking his ex-wife.

It is no wonder, that woman avoid dating runners. Runners are overly obsessed with sports and have little else to take about.

Runners also attack athletes simply because it fulfills a desperate need to prove their manliness.

joho wrote:

She was the final straw that made be cancel my RW subscription a few years ago when she started writing for them.

Agree. I did the very same thing.

worthless males wrote:

You guys are a sorry bunch. It is one thing to attack Lance Armstrong, but now you are attacking his ex-wife.

It is no wonder, that woman avoid dating runners. Runners are overly obsessed with sports and have little else to take about.

Runners also attack athletes simply because it fulfills a desperate need to prove their manliness.

His ex-wife is not some innocent bystander that just happened to marry the wrong guy. She was part of the 'program'. She has been, I guess still is, a writer for a very popular running magazine. Does RW really want to employ someone that was part of a large complex doping scandal? She has put herself in the public eye and she is fair game in this scandal. She has made her bed.

And what kind of stupid bullshi t is 'no wonder women avoid dating runners'? Are you 12 or something? All my running friends are happily married.

"I do not write about these subjects because I think I am an expert, I write about them because I struggle. I write about authenticity because I know what it is to be disingenuous. I write about integrity because I know disgrace (and grace). I write about courage because I know what it is to be weak. I write about the power of trying, because I want to be okay with failing. I write about generosity because I battle selfishness. I write about joy because I know sorrow. I write about faith because I almost lost mine, and I know what it is to be broken and in need of redemption. I write about gratitude because I am thankful - for all of it."

As a UK resident I find this a peculiarly US way of writing: form over substance, cliched, meaningless, pseudo-grandiose, falsely humble, and completely nauseating. And yet some people seem to read these sorts of passages and think they are somehow deep and resonant. Please explain how.

She is a disgrace for any sports.

She's rollin rollin rollin

(the joints)

rojo wrote:

Last week, I went to both Runnersworld and Amazon.com and logged in and left comments telling others of her alleged doping of Lance Armstrong and demanded that the matter be addressed.

The weird thing is neither comment now seems to be there. Were they deleted? My RW name was "Robert JohnsonLRC" and my amazon name is R. Johnson.

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Maybe your moderators are moonlighting for those sights?

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rekrunner wrote:

Rojo,

Maybe now is a good time for you to do some research on this previously mentioned "marital privilege". I think it works two ways:

1) She can not be compelled to talk if she doesn't want to.

2) She can not talk at all if Lance doesn't want her to.

This obligation survives even after divorce.

For all those critical of her silence, she may not have a choice.

My own divorce decree states that neither I nor my ex may disparage the other in front of the children. My ex was stealing drugs from her place of work and got caught. I was instructed by the judge explicitly (but it's not mentioned explicitly in the decree) that I had my "pound of flesh" and the topic would not be mentioned again. She is probably under a similar order and could be held in contempt of court if she speaks openly and disparagingly about her children's father.

decent writing. sounds pretty manipulative.

random a hole wrote:

rojo wrote:

Last week, I went to both Runnersworld and Amazon.com and logged in and left comments telling others of her alleged doping of Lance Armstrong and demanded that the matter be addressed.

The weird thing is neither comment now seems to be there. Were they deleted? My RW name was "Robert JohnsonLRC" and my amazon name is R. Johnson.

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Maybe your moderators are moonlighting for those sights?

Probably the same moderators that deleted the Kevin Moats doping thread. The brojos claim to want to make these things public, but there is some obvious favoritism.

funny premise for a comment, and you almost got away with it..... almost.