Posted on 05/06/2019 1:15:33 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Go read The Secret Race and tell me if you feel the same way. He destroyed people to the very end. And was able to buy his way out of it with the Obama administration. A wretched man to this day.
According to the record books, yes he is. But don't forget, his career was before doping was being tested and the Europeans cyclists were the first to have been discovered to be using PEDS.
So was Merckx really the greatest or was he using the first wave of PED's?..............Makes you wonder doesn't it?
How many stages did he win compared to all the other career cyclists who won way more and were fortunately exempt from the USADA investigation?
Even before his doping hoax was exposed, he revealed his true colors when he dumped his wife who stood by him through the cancer recovery so he could whore around with Sheryl Crow. A truly arrogant sleaze.
BINGO! Armstrong was taken down by the USADA and not one European was subjected to their investigation because they were Europeans...............
The creep got caught doping. Now he has a podcast where he’s anti gun libtard USA. Screw him and the bike he road in on!
The only ones I feel sorry for are Greg and Vicky Lemond. And I despise Trek as much as Armstrong for what happened to them.
And yes, Armstrong is a creep and an egotistic slimeball. But he was the most entertaining rider on the circuit for 10 years, and a phenomenal athlete in his own right.
He's paid his dues.
Give me a break. Europeans were busting doping cyclists long before and long after Lance was on the scene. The Festina Scandal was in 1998. And anyone with a brain in their head knew Lance was doping back when he admitted to consulting with Michele Ferrari.
The truth is the the UCI was covering for Lance for a long time, because an American winner in the TDF was the best thing that ever happened to them, bringing in tons of new spectators, sponsors, and money. Even Armstrong admits that the UCI helped him cover up the doping. ""The real problem was, the sport was on life support. And Hein just said, 'This is a real problem for me; this is the knockout punch for our sport ... so we've got to come up with something.' So we backdated the prescription." In the end, it was the USADA guy, an American from outside cycling, who brought him down.
And I'm not interested in your stale grudges.
Just saying ...
And you cannot prove that Cadel Evans or Greg Lemond used any type of illicit performance enhancing drug. Never heard anyone say this about them, other than to lump all riders together and include them by implication. I have no doubt that many if not most of the riders did PED; but I don’t subscribe to the Armstrong jive that “just everybody did”. Armstrong is living proof of the adage that “crime pays” and in his case it paid big.
I repeat. If Lance Armstrong was European no one would have said a damn thing.
It is quite possible.
What exactly are his "dues"? He made millions for his sponsors and the organizations he funded and sponsored......
And the Europeans who were exempt from the USADA Inquisition are still cycling on...........LOL!
...an early investment in Uber... $100,000 with a venture capital firm in 2009...
Hope they know it's time to get out Uber (has the IPO taken place yet?).
You’re reading a lot more into my question than what was intended. I am not familiar with the particulars of Rose’s betting habits.
You want a list of all the European cyclists who have been busted for doping?
Then he got up and rode maybe 10 more miles uphill before quitting.
On a broken tibia.
Yep. I remember that. It was a mountain stage. And he won it. Of course, he was later charged with doping too ...
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