USDA v. Lance Armstrong
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- CALLES0
You go girl
- CALLES0
Let allow steroids in golf
- fooler0
I can forgive him him for all the doping and lying but I will never forgive him for making me watch the Oprah Winfrey Channel.
- ohhhhhsnap0
s o
what.
- CALLES0
oh and last night when he talked about his son, almost in tears he said "I said Luke.... I said..... Luke..." i kept saying "I AM NOT YOUR FATHER... girlfriend didnt enjoy that as much as i did
- ZOOP0
Juicy Juice is a juicier juice!
- utopian0
The former chief of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency says a representative of Lance Armstrong's offered the agency a donation in the range of $200,000 to $250,000 in 2004 and the agency immediately rejected it.
....Of course Lance denied that!
- qoob0
Lance is dope!
- pango0
meh
- kingkong0
I suspect there are far more important matters going on in the world. If only people got this worked up by other stuff, that said...
From my rather pov...
He doped in a sport that was more or less rife with it. If every single team had its key rider jacked up, and if its a team sport I kind of get the join the team or fuck off attitude.
Strikes me there has been a period in modern sport from about the mid 70's up until the last couple of years in which several sports used performance enhancing drugs where it could clearly aid the athlete, creating an arms race in a lot of sports.
The fact that they cant award any of his Tour De France titles speaks volumes to me.
Quite rightly as the poster boy of his sport and in many ways as the poster boy of picking yourself off the floor and grabbing life by the ball so to speak he has had the furthest to fall, but in many ways I see his argument that punishments for drug cheats aren't applied universally.
The fact that Justin Gatlin has a bronze medal to his name from London 2012 backs that up.
The idea that ONLY lance Armstrong was the ONLY athlete in the world to have a sophisticated doping scheme soulds far fetched to me.
For as long as the benefits outweigh the costs then it will always happen, and I can't imagine a professional sport where it doesn't happen.
- It's the shocking lack of remorse that's getting so much heat. He just doesn't seem to care, that's what stands outpig
- instrmntl0
It brings the questions of who is behind the doping, how much does corporate sponsorship and push to success in competition affect sport, where is the direction sport is heading etc etc.
Lance Armstrong, much like Barry Bonds, was and is an asshole. He mistreated the people around him, bullied, etc. They deserve what they get. I think the interesting parts of the L.A. story is how he continually lied to everyone for a decade and a half, had the audacity to sue anone who spoke out and told the truth, and is now attempting to seek redemption to clean his reputation.
Its not only him though, but the companies behind him, the team of lawyers he has in his pocket to stamp out any threats, etc etc.
- Llyod0
I didn't really care until I found he sued people for libel. Son of a bitch cost people their lively hoods.
- instrmntl0
Totally. He ruined people's reputation that cared more for the sport, and pushed them out. He's a bastard.
- d_rek0
Not coincidentally I was at a Dick's Sporting Goods this weekend and all of the Livestrong gear was on clearance. There was a good two racks of nice nike-livestrong stuff there.
- qoob0
The apology would be more meaningful if he announced plans to compensate the people he hurt financially and otherwise.
Instead he pretty much said, I lied, I was a dick, now I'd like forgiveness please so I can continue my career/being famous.