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Lance Armstrong, girlfriend Anna Hansen announce they're expecting
examiner.com ^ | 12-23-08 | James Raia,

Posted on 12/24/2008 8:53:46 AM PST by em2vn

Lance Armstrong will soon have four children to go along with his seven Tour de France titles.

Armstrong, 37, and his girlfriend Anna Hansen, 28, have announced they’re expecting a child next year.

"Anna and I are thrilled to confirm that we are expecting in June and our families are ecstatic and grateful," Armstrong said via a statement. "We are very much looking forward to what 2009 brings on many fronts. We appreciate respecting our privacy, as we are both eager to celebrate the holidays as a family." The expected child of Armstrong and his girlfriend is via natural pregnancy.

(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: armstrong; athletes; cancer; hansen; lancearmstrong; pregnancy
Any thoughts? I thought radiation put the swimmers down for the count.
1 posted on 12/24/2008 8:53:49 AM PST by em2vn
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To: em2vn

He stored sperm before the operation.


2 posted on 12/24/2008 8:55:47 AM PST by Edgar3 ("Is there a Patriot in the house?")
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To: em2vn
Swimmers perhaps.

Bicyclists, obvious not.

3 posted on 12/24/2008 8:56:03 AM PST by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: em2vn

This thread is useless.


4 posted on 12/24/2008 8:56:32 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Women were treated like livestock by Mohammad, so Allah must want women treated like cows forever.)
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To: em2vn
I thought radiation put the swimmers down for the count.

Not necessarily, but the kid may have three eyes.

5 posted on 12/24/2008 8:57:46 AM PST by reg45
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To: em2vn

I be one of her “guy friends” has some explaining to do.


6 posted on 12/24/2008 8:58:09 AM PST by krb (Obama is a miserable failure.)
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To: em2vn

DOWN GOES SPERMEY DOWN GOES SPERMEY DOWN GOES SPERMEY


7 posted on 12/24/2008 8:59:18 AM PST by al baby (Hi mom Mr. Obama, are you aware that Sarah Palin took on her own party’s establishment in Alaska a)
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To: em2vn

Here's a pic of the lovely couple. Oh wait...never mind.

8 posted on 12/24/2008 9:00:41 AM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: Uncle Miltie

Just useless, or useless without pics?


9 posted on 12/24/2008 9:00:43 AM PST by Mr. Silverback (I want a hippopotamus for Christmas. Only a hippopotamus will do!)
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To: em2vn

“Any thoughts?” Sure, here are my thoughts: Lance Armstrong is a narcissistic jerk. If LA wants to have a child with this woman, he should have married her first — or at least married her as soon as she realized she was pregnant — instead of issuing press releases. Armstrong is hooked on the attention, and he’s just contrived or exploited another opportunity to get some.


10 posted on 12/24/2008 9:01:06 AM PST by utahagen
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To: em2vn

“The expected child of Armstrong and his girlfriend is via natural pregnancy.”

I find it discomfiting that the author thought it informative to include this disclosure.


11 posted on 12/24/2008 9:02:31 AM PST by swain_forkbeard (Rationality may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.)
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To: em2vn

Quit being a slut, Lance. Man up and marry the girl. We’ve got enough ‘role models’ out there knocking up their girlfriends. Be special! Do the right thing, Dude.


12 posted on 12/24/2008 9:03:03 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin ('Taking the moderate path of appeasement leads to abysmal defeat.' - Rush on 11/05/08)
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"Lance Armstrong is a narcissistic jerk."

Most over achievers are. How else would anyone place everything second to personal glory?

13 posted on 12/24/2008 9:03:47 AM PST by Natural Law
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Any thoughts you ask? Why did the author include this statement?:

“The expected child of Armstrong and his girlfriend is via natural pregnancy.”

14 posted on 12/24/2008 9:05:01 AM PST by SW6906 (6 things you can't have too much of: sex, money, firewood, horsepower, guns and ammunition.)
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To: Edgar3

He must have had some very long range planning in mind.
The part about the natural pregnancy is what caught my eye. I don’t think artificial insemination is considered natural since it’s artificial.
Last week there was a report of a breat cancer survivor who experienced both chemo and radiation therapy. He doctor told her she was sterile after the radiation. Someone forgot to tell that to the baby she delivered.


15 posted on 12/24/2008 9:05:07 AM PST by em2vn
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To: Natural Law

I think most achievers are egotists, but I don’t think most are narcissists. Narcissists really care only about themselves, which can’t even be said of most politicians. I think Armstrong is a bad person.


16 posted on 12/24/2008 9:06:36 AM PST by utahagen
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To: SW6906

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Any thoughts you ask? Why did the author include this statement?:

“The expected child of Armstrong and his girlfriend is via natural pregnancy.”
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Because the man had testicular cancer, the extent of the damage from which is obviously not the sort of thing he has described publicly.


17 posted on 12/24/2008 9:08:49 AM PST by Owen
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To: swain_forkbeard

It’s an appropriate statement that basically says Lance’s body has overcome cancer. ‘Natural’ is a way to say frozen sperm were not needed.


18 posted on 12/24/2008 9:10:01 AM PST by Doug TX
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To: utahagen

Any way you slice it, this article has way TMI!


19 posted on 12/24/2008 9:12:03 AM PST by basil (Support the 2nd Amendment--buy another gun today)
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To: em2vn

I thought he was humping Sheryl Skank Crow.


20 posted on 12/24/2008 9:12:14 AM PST by DogBarkTree (Sometimes you have to let it go in order to get a Grip.)
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To: em2vn

If you want privacy, keep your private life to yourself.


21 posted on 12/24/2008 9:13:43 AM PST by Carley
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To: em2vn

Lance's leavings.

22 posted on 12/24/2008 9:17:31 AM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: em2vn

Doesn’t anyone get married BEFORE having children anymore???


23 posted on 12/24/2008 9:19:56 AM PST by peggybac (Tolerance is the virtue of believing in nothing)
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To: SW6906

Armstrong’s 3 other children were in vitro conceptions from stored sperm and born after he was treated for testicular cancer.

This child was conceived naturally. Both Mr. Armstrong and the mother of this child are deeply involved in cancer charity work.

I suppose they may be giving hope to other cancer survivors by including this information.


24 posted on 12/24/2008 9:28:40 AM PST by Valpal1 (Always be prepared to make that difference.)
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To: em2vn
I think this is a pic of Lance's new GF...


25 posted on 12/24/2008 9:29:08 AM PST by SonOfDarkSkies
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Hes already been there and done that. He has three children already, one boy and a set of twins from someone else. I think it said he divorced her in 2005.


26 posted on 12/24/2008 9:30:13 AM PST by Lady GOP
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To: martin_fierro

Lance marrying a philosopher?


27 posted on 12/24/2008 9:38:35 AM PST by 353FMG (The sky is not falling, yet.)
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To: Mr. Silverback

Useless without pics. Standards must be maintained.


28 posted on 12/24/2008 9:39:14 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Women were treated like livestock by Mohammad, so Allah must want women treated like cows forever.)
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“our families are ecstatic and grateful”

As a dad myself, Lance, I’m thinkin’ Dad’s not all that ecstatic you’re banging his baby without marrying her first.

Colonel, USAFR


29 posted on 12/24/2008 9:45:56 AM PST by jagusafr ("Bugs, Mr. Rico! Zillions of 'em!" - Robert Heinlein)
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To: em2vn

His ex-wife (the one he left for Sheryl Crow) is apparently a really nice lady. Know someone who knows her.


30 posted on 12/24/2008 10:08:14 AM PST by SMCC1
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To: em2vn

Several years ago I was waiting for an oil change and got stuck watching Lance Armstrong and Sheryl Crow on Oprah. It nearly put my eyes out.

BUT!

Oprah asked Lance if his experience with cancer meant that you could accomplish anything as long as you work at it hard enough. He gave her the gimlet eye and answered that he had known plenty of of other cancer patients who were less sick than he was and who had worked harder than he had at getting well and they had died anyway.

I respected him for stuffing Oprah’s touchy feely right back up her mouth.


31 posted on 12/24/2008 10:10:10 AM PST by Locomotive Breath
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His body may have overcome cancer. It’s overcoming the radiation I’m interested in. I danced with that stuff thirty seven times. I have a question or two for my doctor.


32 posted on 12/24/2008 10:11:34 AM PST by em2vn
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To: SMCC1

He was long divorced before Crow came along.


33 posted on 12/24/2008 10:13:13 AM PST by em2vn
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To: Doug TX

I guess I forgot about his illness. Good for him.


34 posted on 12/24/2008 10:53:18 AM PST by swain_forkbeard (Rationality may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.)
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I'll try again...
35 posted on 12/24/2008 1:50:26 PM PST by SonOfDarkSkies
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To: Valpal1
Armstrong’s 3 other children were in vitro conceptions from stored sperm .... This child was conceived naturally. Both Mr. Armstrong and the mother of this child are deeply involved in cancer charity work.

Thats not the only thing he's deeply involved in, apparently. Next time maybe he could get married first. If the subject comes up, of course.

36 posted on 02/12/2009 1:16:52 PM PST by Nonstatist
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