Kristin Armstrong Adresses Recent Events

Maybe she saw what her husband did to others who spoke out and she had fear. Maybe she liked the money and his last name. RW is full of crap and has been. Havent read that rag in years.

What is it with Clemens, Petite,the Os former first baseman and Armstrong ? Maybe all those Texans were using the same batch ?

The link below is to the Kristin Armstrong article in Runners World that made me give up all hope for RW and cancel my subscription. I knew the magazine was really no longer relevant for me but after reading this fluff piece I could no longer waste my money buying their product.

http://www.runnersworld.com/article/1,7120,s6-243-297--8168-0,00.html

In this article Kristin talks about taking up trail running. She, along with RW, likes to pass herself off as the average mom / runner. But, to 'learn' how to trail run she flies to CA to take running lessons from a seasoned trail runner she knows. How many of the average working moms out there get to jet set across the country to 'learn' how to trail run. What the hell is to learn? Find a trail and go run.

I really could not imagine reading an entire book by her. Reading more than a few sentences of her writing makes me throw up in my mouth a little.

We're a sorry bunch?

Kirstin, calls LA a wasband, yet keeps his last name.

She skirts all the issues in her "clarification". Like what exactly she as passing on to the other riders, all wrapped in foil?

Or what she meant many years ago when she told Betsy Andreau that doping "was the price you pay" to stay at the top.

I have zero respect for her, because she continues to live off LAs cheating funds, denies all culpability and will pretend to be tied down and suppressed, just as long as LA continues to lie.

Simple questions she can answer for us:

Was LA doping before he got cancer?

Did she see drugs in the house?

Does she feel any sympathy for the Andreaus and Lemonds?

Actually she is not dumb. You are dumb.

Give her credit, she is making the best of a bad situation, something any mother with children would try and do. Here is a mother raising three children pretty much on her own. Believe me, she has more to worry about then her next run.

It is obvious from the comments here that posters do not date or know women. Typical sunken chested, bird legged runners whose world extends no further than their last run. No wonder too many runners are loked upon as weird or sexless and do not date (women.

Armstrong is scum, his wife is not.

I don't understand all this hostility for Kristin. What legal obligations are you talking about? USADA only has jurisdiction for certain athletes. Is Kristin an athlete within USADA's jurisdiction? USADA is not a legal drug enforcement agency. In anycase, not all the drugs involved are illegal (in every country). I guess USADA knows which laws are relevant.Maybe in the other "federal" case, questions of fraud or drugs might force her to provide information. But that isn't the case with USADA versus Lance.We don't know if any communications took place between USADA and Kristin, but it sounds like, if so, she couldn't have been that useful in providing information. Maybe USADA knew that beforehand, and didn't even ask. Maybe they asked but she informed them that she couldn't share information.

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.

I agree, I have no idea why it has become so pervasive recently. Maybe the advent of blogs? Anyway it is very trite and painful to read.

Tommy2Nuttz wrote:

Was LA doping before he got cancer?

Did she see drugs in the house?

Does she feel any sympathy for the Andreaus and Lemonds?

1. Yes, HGH was the reason why his tumor grew so fast

2. She worked as a drug mule, so I guess the answer is yes

3. No.

You are all missing how much she says by not saying certain things. She doesn't say "I never witnessed my husband taking drugs." She never says, "Any accusation that I was involved in or had knowledge of my husband's doping is false and defamatory." She doesn't say "The idea that we kept EPO in the fridge with butter is absurd." And so on. The very fact that she does not deny these accusations makes it entirely clear that she cannot deny them - were they false she would certainly say that. She is making it very very clear that she cannot or does not choose to refute these accusations indicates that she likely signed a confidentiality agreement with Lance that gives her more financial support as long as she keeps her mouth shut.

Correct. The USADA only used testimony that reinforced it desires. Kristin Armstrong and Sheryl Crow didn't have anything to offer the USADA.

Interesting, the two people closest to Armstrong, who also were at Le Tour events, didn't provide useful information. Neither of the ladies is hiding anything. They simply didn't see what the USADA wanted then to see.

rekrunner wrote:

We don't know if any communications took place between USADA and Kristin, but it sounds like, if so, she couldn't have been that useful in providing information. Maybe USADA knew that beforehand, and didn't even ask.[/quote]

Digs wrote:

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.

I agree, I have no idea why it has become so pervasive recently. Maybe the advent of blogs? Anyway it is very trite and painful to read.

It appeals to the middle-aged upper middle-class American women who run but not very fast, do yoga, eat organic, etc. as part of a fitness "lifestyle." It's not the Letsrun demographic.

To get back to the general topic, it sounds to me like very few of the posters have had to deal with a situation in which your ex-husband turns out to be a psycho creep, but you still have to deal with him week in and week out because he is your children's father. Women who have to deal with that situation often have to pick their battles. The truth is all coming out anyway.

But I am a middle-aged upper middle class woman (whom I suspect many Letsrun posters are also!)and that writing doesn't appeal to me at all!In fact it was her writing that first made me sympathetic to Lance.

A bit of perspective wrote:

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It appeals to the middle-aged upper middle-class American women who run but not very fast, do yoga, eat organic, etc. as part of a fitness "lifestyle." It's not the Letsrun demographic.

That's Me! wrote: But I am a middle-aged upper middle class woman (whom I suspect many Letsrun posters are also!)and that writing doesn't appeal to me at all!

Your comment makes is clear you are, in reality, a pimply faced, eighteen-year old, minimum-wage earning, male, living in his mom's basement.

That's Me! wrote:

But I am a middle-aged upper middle class woman (whom I suspect many Letsrun posters are also!)and that writing doesn't appeal to me at all!

So you're not into aromatherapy or detoxes either? Lululemon? Dance, sing, floss and travel?

USADA Mafia wrote:

Correct. The USADA only used testimony that reinforced it desires. Kristin Armstrong and Sheryl Crow didn't have anything to offer the USADA.

Interesting, the two people closest to Armstrong, who also were at Le Tour events, didn't provide useful information. Neither of the ladies is hiding anything. They simply didn't see what the USADA wanted then to see.

Because they were outside of USADA's jurisdiction on the matter, USADA couldn't offer them any plea deal to entice them to sing. Neither were facing potential bans from the sport, they had nothing to lose by massaging the message to cover up the truth like Kristen does in that blog post or flat out lie like Palmiero before Congress. There was nothing to compel them to tell the truth to USADA other than their own conscience, or a lack thereof.

Vapid self-absorption. Her writing appeals to others who are afflicted similarly to make them feel better about being so vapid and self-absorbed.

To quote Mike Ditka: "who the f--ck cares?"

Great to see the community supports Kristin. Under the Runners World blog entry there are only supportive and no negative comments. Seem like all the negative nancy's are on letsrun.com only.

Sounds like my first marriage.