What a joke. How much did the doping get him is what I'm wondering. Hard to believe the confession was 5 years ago today (and yesterday - on Oprah over two days).
What a joke. How much did the doping get him is what I'm wondering. Hard to believe the confession was 5 years ago today (and yesterday - on Oprah over two days).
Yeah. If I steal a million dollars, and my only punishment upon being caught is that I have to give back half of it, I'll feel pretty damn lucky.
Amazing that a no-name sport like cycling could even generate $20m/year in the first place?
Running, on the other hand, THAT's where the bigs-money is....
If you fail, fail big wrote:
Amazing that a no-name sport like cycling could even generate $20m/year in the first place?
Running, on the other hand, THAT's where the bigs-money is....
Well, cyclists will spend ~$400 for a wheel.
F*** Lance Armstrong - he's a joke.. pathetic individual
The real injustice is all the other dopers who got away with a slap on the wrist or nothing, Ris, Ulrich, Landis, Hincapie, Vanvelde, and many more.
Glad I chose running. wrote:
If you fail, fail big wrote:
Amazing that a no-name sport like cycling could even generate $20m/year in the first place?
Running, on the other hand, THAT's where the bigs-money is....
Well, cyclists will spend ~$400 for a wheel.
$400 is cheap for a bicycle wheel.
Let this be a lesson to anyone and everyone who uses any kind of banned drugs.
NEVER CONFESS !!!!!!
That's rule #1, and here's rule #2:
NEVER CONFESS !!!!!!
NEVER CONFESS !!!!!! NEVER CONFESS !!!!!!
NEVER CONFESS !!!!!! NEVER CONFESS !!!!!! NEVER CONFESS !!!!!! '
NEVER CONFESS !!!!!! NEVER CONFESS !!!!!! NEVER CONFESS !!!!!! NEVER CONFESS !!!!!! '
NEVER CONFESS !!!!!! NEVER CONFESS !!!!!! NEVER CONFESS !!!!!!
NEVER CONFESS !!!!!! NEVER CONFESS !!!!!!
NEVER CONFESS !!!!!!
NEVER CONFESS !!!!!! NEVER CONFESS !!!!!! NEVER CONFESS !!!!!! NEVER CONFESS !!!!!!
Has he ever admitted HOW he pulled it off?
Ie, paying off the UCI/drug testers or having his sponsor do it?
It's pretty cool he came clean to the future POTUS.
It's well-known that Armstrong failed multiple drug test in his career, which were covered up by the UCI. The UCI has admitted that he failed 4 test in 1999 alone.
If it were not for the persistence of Travis Tygart and USADA (and Armstrong's return to cycling) he would never have been ousted in the fashion he was.
The guy is a total D-bag, still to this day.
Cashing in on cancer, living the big lie.
FU Lance, go the f away.
Just read the article and you will realize what a disgusting turd Armstrong really is.
He deserves jail time, nothing less, for what he's done to so many people, just to defend his lies and cheating.
BTW I have always wondered why his ex wife and later Sheryl Crow were never called to testify. Im certain they knew he was cheating, and havent said anything about it.
rojo wrote:
What a joke. How much did the doping get him is what I'm wondering. Hard to believe the confession was 5 years ago today (and yesterday - on Oprah over two days).
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/2018/01/16/how-oprah-confession-has-weighed-lance-armstrong/1035056001/
It cost him his reputation and totally wrecked the image of Cycling as a Sport. This is more important. I would be willing to forgive him if he confessed in this way.
one of the greatest stories in sports was wrecked.
BoBBy KnighT wrote:
rojo wrote:
What a joke. How much did the doping get him is what I'm wondering. Hard to believe the confession was 5 years ago today (and yesterday - on Oprah over two days).
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/2018/01/16/how-oprah-confession-has-weighed-lance-armstrong/1035056001/It cost him his reputation and totally wrecked the image of Cycling as a Sport. This is more important. I would be willing to forgive him if he confessed in this way.
I think it wrecked the image of cycling for the less than casual fan, but cycling is still finding sponsors. The PED use in baseball has not hurt it (in fact might have helped it).
BoBBy KnighT wrote:
rojo wrote:
What a joke. How much did the doping get him is what I'm wondering. Hard to believe the confession was 5 years ago today (and yesterday - on Oprah over two days).
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/2018/01/16/how-oprah-confession-has-weighed-lance-armstrong/1035056001/It cost him his reputation and totally wrecked the image of Cycling as a Sport. This is more important. I would be willing to forgive him if he confessed in this way.
It hasn't cost him his reputation and cycling continues to move on with doping cases of their own (e.g., Froome, Sanchez, Cardoso). And LA seems to be doing really well in Aspen with his millions of $$$, mansion, fancy cars, lovely wife and all. In fact, he even hangs out & plays golf with the Pitkin County sheriff. So, the doping hasn't put a dent in his lifestye or reputation. He's made out like a "bandit" being a career doper (so much for honest, hard work in sports anymore ?). Reads this & see the life of the rich & famous:
https://www.outsideonline.com/2237386/road-goes-forever-and-story-never-endsIf you fail, fail big wrote:
Amazing that a no-name sport like cycling could even generate $20m/year in the first place?
Running, on the other hand, THAT's where the bigs-money is....
While a few cyclists certainly made and make good money, Lance was a unique situation:
World Champion
Winner of the Most Recognized Race
American
Cancer
Without the survival of cancer, he would not have been nearly the story that he was and gotten the endorsement dollars he did get.
Let's face it, it was one of the great sports stories ever. (Heck a cynic could even say it still is since he as competing on essentially a level playing field--everyone else that was a challenger was doping too).
Tour da Lance wrote:
BoBBy KnighT wrote:
It cost him his reputation and totally wrecked the image of Cycling as a Sport. This is more important. I would be willing to forgive him if he confessed in this way.
It hasn't cost him his reputation and cycling continues to move on with doping cases of their own (e.g., Froome, Sanchez, Cardoso). And LA seems to be doing really well in Aspen with his millions of $$$, mansion, fancy cars, lovely wife and all. In fact, he even hangs out & plays golf with the Pitkin County sheriff. So, the doping hasn't put a dent in his lifestye or reputation. He's made out like a "bandit" being a career doper (so much for honest, hard work in sports anymore ?). Reads this & see the life of the rich & famous:
https://www.outsideonline.com/2237386/road-goes-forever-and-story-never-ends
Wrong!
read the last paragraph.
Whatever happens to his finances, Armstrong still has to live out his life in his skin as the “disgraced cyclist”—the media’s favorite term—who became the global symbol of doping. “Most people don’t have to go through a public shaming and then have to look at their kids’ faces,” says Anna Hansen. “That part was really hard. We try to keep an open dialogue.” Not long ago, Hansen was talking to her and Armstrong’s son Max, then seven, about his father’s career. She was telling him that his father was one of the greatest cyclists, when Max interrupted and said, “Yeah, but he cheated.” Lance, Anna, and first-wife Kristin have spent years explaining his fall from grace to the three eldest children—twin 15-year-old girls, Isabelle and Grace, and 17-year-old Luke, who once got into fights defending his father’s reputation. With a lot of counseling and personal effort, family life has improved. But in Lance Armstrong’s world, there is no stepping away from the past. Max and his six-year-old sister, Olivia, are a stunning illustration of this: they know virtually nothing of the Armstrong narrative. Not yet. “I will be having that discussion with them for a long time,” Armstrong says. “You can’t just say to a seven-year-old, ‘It was a really bad time, and everybody did it.’”
Sorry rojo, but your thread title forced me to post this link: