Lance Armstrong Says It's The Postal Service's Fault For.... $41 Million When He Was On Drugs

Yahoo/Business Insider ^ | 07/25/2013 | Jim Edwards

[bgill]

Now, the biggest question is did the P.O. really need to spend the money for advertising? Taxpayers money???

EXACTLY!

Ya know, I was caught all sorts of flames when I tried to tell FReepers what he was really like and that folks in Austin knew what a jerk he was. Oh, well.

[biff]

I was a big fan of his, but talk about twin personalities! One for public and one for private.

The performance enhancing drugs has really got me bamboozled. Should we continue the attempted bans in all sports? Or just say the hell with it, anything goes, at which time we will be having world class athletes dropping dead at the time the reach 30. Or maybe two classes, clean and drugged?

Looks like two classes: how can Roger Maris’ home runs be compared to Barry Bonds? Is it fair? Does the league care about fairness or are they worried about being racist?

Lances records as compared to other greats? How do we know the other greats weren’t doping?

All the track records are legal?

How about a pitcher raised from birth to be one and juiced since the age of 14 and throwing fastballs @ 110MPH?

Where does it stop?

This is precisely why I have completely quit watching stick and ball sports for the last 10 years.

[patriotspride]

The dog ate my homework defense

[9422WMR]

Your not mad because you once wore a yellow plastic bracelet, are you?/s
I knew Lance was a false hero all along, but the media hero worshipers promoted him to all. I’d bet no one claims to have once wore a “live strong” bracelet!

[wildbill]

Armstrong is a total moron for revealing his secrets if he truly wants to retain the money.

He was in the cat bird seat with all the money for endorsements and no legal pressure to fess up.

[Moltke]

I have some sympathy for American cyclists. Back then (and maybe still), all the top Euro riders were doping, the governing body refused to do anything about it, so Americans started doping to have any chance of winning. Lance turned out to be very good at doping, combined with his natural talent and started winning. That some punk American, from Texas no less, was winning their little bike race peeved the Euros no end. Hence the vendetta against Lance, while Euro riders were doing the same and worse. Now Lance made it far worse by lying and filing libel lawsuits, but still I can understand the original motivation.

Angela Corey, is that you?

[SeaHawkFan]

It got everything it bargained for from Armstrong and his cycling team.

This is the only defense Armstrong needs. All the other defenses are just legal points that needed to be made by the lawyers just in case the main defense is not successful.

Also, in order to prevail in a civil lawsuit, the plaintiff must be able to prove damages - an impossible task. There is also a huge statute of limitations problem for the plaintiffs.

I wonder which high-level executive(s) at the USPS were big cycling fans and took paid trips to watch the Tour de France by using the sponsorship as an excuse to get the government to pay for their hobby.

Also, how can anyone tarnish the image of the USPS beyond what it has done to itself?

[UCANSEE2]

It’s always about the money.