KawauchiFTW wrote:
CardsAgainstHumanity wrote:
'The dude has balls'
Plural.... really?
You got me there... ROTFLMAO... I almost forgot, only one left... LOL
Wouldn't he have had a prosthetic gonad added to is sac?
KawauchiFTW wrote:
CardsAgainstHumanity wrote:
'The dude has balls'
Plural.... really?
You got me there... ROTFLMAO... I almost forgot, only one left... LOL
Wouldn't he have had a prosthetic gonad added to is sac?
Lance is King wrote:
A 47 year old, long retired, convicted doper, cyclist still being used to drive traffic to this site.
GOAT
This.
Sydneysider wrote:
Yeah, I dunno about Whitfield... Reckons no doping in Tri when he was racing, which is total BS. It was a free for all. Nobodies disappearing in to the jungles of Thailand only to emerge as world beaters. Nuh-uh.
Whitfield shows his "character" by associating with this guy.
He shows that even if you dope, he is fine to be on a team with you.
No doping in tri in 2000? OK, so it was the golden era of EPO in track but triathlon, the endurance sport where more than any other you can spend your way to success, had no drugs. lololololol
Other Options wrote:
Loser in life that helped generate $500 million to cancer research and save millions of lives? What did you do?
Please document how Lance Armstrong saved millions of lives.
wejo wrote:
Nearly fell out of my chair today when I was talking to our ad sales guy and asking him how the swim run even the puts on went and he told me Lance Armstrong competed along with Olympic triathlon champ Simon Whitfield.
Turns out Lance's lifetime ban only applies to cycling.
Lance and Simon finished 3rd overall in the SwimRun even in Washington state on the Orcas islands. I'm sure some LRCer can even breakdown this type of performance.
Results and a little more info at link below:
http://www.letsrun.com/news/2018/09/lance-armstrong-back-competing-swimrun-event-olympic-triathlon-champ-simon-whitfield/
What we want to know is, did he look relax.... oh, never mind, he clearly did.
They both could have done solo division, or picked different team mate.
Other Options wrote:
Le Tour wrote:
Looks a lot fitter than his marathon training days when he was a good 20 -25 pounds heavier than his cycling weight.
LA was a calculating Ahole and I’m glad he got busted . He was a very good cyclist on the sauce ( like many) but in the end he got it . Treated everyone like $hit ! God , what a loser in life
Loser in life that helped generate $500 million to cancer research and save millions of lives? What did you do?
Pretty sure all that did not go to research...
Offshore Bank Accounts wrote:
It does sound like he's not broke after losing all those sponsorship deals and legal issues.
In an interview on Freakonomics a few months back, he divulged that he was an early investor in Uber.
Mellow Juan wrote:
taking the other side wrote:
This goes to show you that Lance is an athlete to the core. It's easy for a bunch of hacks to give him sh.t, but not a single one of you has ever found yourselves in the position he was in when it came to doping. It was either get with the program like nearly everyone but Bassons or find another career. I don't condone it, but I certainly understand why he chose to dope. If I was in his position I guarantee I would have to.
What's not so easy to cast aside is the fact he was a total ahole to so many people while trying to hide it.
Anyway, glad to see he's still racing. Most of the other former champions you guys probably look up to are fat and no longer compete or even exercise.
^^^This.
The vicious attacks, lawsuits, and threats against his detractors was over the top and unnecessary. Those people have every right to hold him in contempt. Had he conducted himself more humbly like many of the others (re: Indurain, etc..), the contempt would not run so deep. Regarding the PEDs themselves - it was pretty much join the club or get out. The saddest thing of all is that Tygart's goal of bringing him down was to fundamentally change the sport forever (eliminate the PED culture) - a dream that has yet to materialize and quite possibly never will.
I doubt most people care when he shows up for a race, at the very least it's a great carrot. Imagine your name in the results above him - booyah!
Lance intrigues me. He could be cut-throat, but I know of situations where he was a really nice guy. He reached out to many folks diagnosed with cancer including quite a few competitive cyclists. Then I heard the story of a doping control officer (DCO) who showed up at his door to test him one morning. The DCO is a she and she has a male chaperone with her. Lance is not happy to see the DCO because the very young twins had created quite a sleepless night.
The DCO told Lance that she had raised twins as well. She said that he immediately lightened up and wanted to talk about how she did it. From there on out that DCO tested Lance as often as possible always said how nice he was.
We are all complicated, but he may well be outside the norm.
doping Victorian wrote:
Sydneysider wrote:
Yeah, I dunno about Whitfield... Reckons no doping in Tri when he was racing, which is total BS. It was a free for all. Nobodies disappearing in to the jungles of Thailand only to emerge as world beaters. Nuh-uh.
Whitfield shows his "character" by associating with this guy.
He shows that even if you dope, he is fine to be on a team with you.
No doping in tri in 2000? OK, so it was the golden era of EPO in track but triathlon, the endurance sport where more than any other you can spend your way to success, had no drugs. lololololol
The female gold medalist in triathlon the year Whitfield won later on got busted for EPO...
What shoes was Lance wearing?
swimrunner wrote:
What shoes was Lance wearing?
....and was he tested? ?
Charlie wrote:
When is cheating not cheating?
When EVERYONE IS CHEATING
Yes you are right. Lance is the GOAT. Many people living in denial and ignoring reality. He was great. Actually knowing the sport of pro cycling and the challenges associated with winning the TDF he was arguably the #1 athlete of all time.
Agree with you wrote:
Charlie wrote:
When is cheating not cheating?
When EVERYONE IS CHEATING
Yes you are right. Lance is the GOAT. Many people living in denial and ignoring reality. He was great. Actually knowing the sport of pro cycling and the challenges associated with winning the TDF he was arguably the #1 athlete of all time.
He would be the #1 doped athlete of all time. In his seven Tour wins he simply outdoped his competition and had a better doped team than any of the other teams.
And if you don't think that winning a Grand Tour is not a team effort, then you know absolutely nothing about pro cycling. U.S. Postal/Discovery had some of the best doped cyclists money could buy and a top-level teamwide program (a few of Armstrong's former teammates that left to go on their own won Grand Tours!).
It's like if you have a bunch of "bank robbers" and one stands out and is more successful than the others - then you could conclude this particular robber was the best "bank robber" of his era.
Jakob Ingebrigtsen has a 1989 Ferrari 348 GTB and he's just put in paperwork to upgrade it
Is there a rule against attaching a helium balloon to yourself while running a road race?
Strava thinks the London Marathon times improved 12 minutes last year thanks to supershoes
NAU women have no excuse - they should win it all at 2024 NCAA XC
How rare is it to run a sub 5 minute mile AND bench press 225?
Mark Coogan says that if you could only do 3 workouts as a 1500m runner you should do these
Move over Mark Coogan, Rojo and John Kellogg share their 3 favorite mile workouts
Am I living in the twilight zone? The Boston Marathon weather was terrible!