Posted on 10/22/2012 4:08:28 PM PDT by DallasBiff
Poor Lance he had it all, 7 Tour de France wins, and the hero of cancer survivors, while he dumped his cancer stricken wife, he had it all.
But the lie was exposed and now his empire is crumbling on the the thin wood it was built on.
According to one report 35 of the top 42 were doping.
Lance boy (a gay first name in my experience) still has the moolah, if he’s invested it wisely, even though he’s lost the best female singer ever since Barbra Streisand, or even since Ethel Merman herself. OK, OK, since Rosie and the Originals.
His ardent supporters, on the other hand, with their tired parroted single argument that “Lance was never caught” don’t seem to understand the fairly complex ideer that cheating is not about getting caught, but, sigh, about not getting caught. D’uh!
From Wikipedia,for what it’s worth:
Armstrong met (his future wife)Kristin Richard in June 1997. They married on May 1, 1998 and had three children: Luke David, born October 1999, and twins Isabelle Rose and Grace Elisabeth, born November 2001. The pregnancy was possible through sperm Armstrong banked three years earlier, prior to chemotherapy and surgery.[41] The couple filed for divorce in September 2003. At Armstrong’s request, his children flew in for the Tour de France podium ceremony in 2005, where Luke helped his father hoist the trophy, while his daughters (in yellow dresses) held the stuffed lion mascot and bouquet of yellow flowers.
Armstrong began dating singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow in late 2003 and revealed their relationship in January 2004. The couple announced their engagement in September 2005 and their split in February 2006.
In December 2008, Armstrong announced that his girlfriend, Anna Hansen, was pregnant with his child. The couple started dating in July 2008 after meeting through Armstrong’s charity work. Although it was believed that Armstrong could no longer father children, after having undergone chemotherapy for testicular cancer, this child was conceived naturally.[42] The baby boy, Maxwell Edward Armstrong, was born in 2009 in Aspen, Colorado. Armstrong announced the birth via Twitter.[43] Armstrong has become a popular Twitter user, with precisely 3,385,486 followers on April 10, 2012. [44] In April 2010, Armstrong, using Twitter, announced that Anna Hansen was having his fifth child. Olivia Marie Armstrong was born in October 2010.[45]
Doesn't look like it. Do you have a source?
By this point, we should just assume everybody in the race is taking some kind of performance enhancing drug -- because they almost certainly are.
Americans would understand.....
Either one is bad for cycling it is equally bad for other sports, especially ones that have to compete agains the PRC.
Check out the new Tyler Hamilton book. He says that everyone doped and he goes into great detail on how they avoided testing positive. An excellent read.
The Truth About Armstrong (The World According to Lance Armstrong - Four Corners 16-10-2012)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZXfQFSewU8
Yep, Lance’s assistant, one of many, stated how he would run circles around the testing crew so as to avoid them ‘till he was clean, also, the assistant found the drugs, Lance got caught up in his own ego, God hates hubris!
They just need a better group of riders who will keep the rules. Invite back into the sport all of those forced out because they wouldn't dope.
Yeh they were following LA's lead.
He was wearing the yellow jersey of the lead doper.
No they weren’t following LAs lead. They might have been eating his dust though.
Exactly.
I still ride for recreation and do some coaching. I also have continued to follow the sport and the stories about his first wife and two kids were in the sports journals at the time. I lived in Austin while in graduate school and he lived about two miles from me when I was there.
However, I am not sure that he knew his wife had cancer when the divorce proceedings began so it might be one of those things like the myth of Newt Gingrich divorcing his wife when she was dying of cancer. That is true but not true at the same time
Nothing makes enemies like success and those who are less successful often time want to blame their lack of success on something other than their own inferiority. I do think it is somewhat unjust to strip him of the titles because I would bet real money that whoever he beat was doing the same thing. All the top teams did at that time. It is unfortunate because Armstrong's training methods revolutionized the sport in so many ways and are now standard practice.
People that do not follow cycling do not really realize how grueling the training regimen is. I spent 4 to 7 hours a day on a bicycle riding upwards of 500 miles a week for nearly 10 years. Every team and every rider looks for an edge and there are only three places to get that edge - Better training, better equipment and steroids. If you have the money the steroids are in some ways the easiest way to do that because the equipment is highly regulated and easily verifiable. When I say highly regulated I mean down to how far the brake levers can extend beyond the handlebar and the axle spacing of the rear wheel. Indeed if they are going to strip Armstrong of his titles for being one step ahead of the drug testers then they strip Greg Lemond and Eddy Merckxs of their titles as well since they were famous for using experimental equipment not yet approved by the UCI.
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