Posted on 01/17/2013 12:08:06 PM PST by TexasCajun
Consider this: You and I have now won the Tour de France as many times as Lance Armstrong.
In case you need a quick recap: After more than a year of investigating, in June 2012, the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) charged Armstrong with using illicit performance-enhancing drugs. In August, it stripped Armstrong of all competitive results from August 1998 on, and announced that he was banned from competitive cycling for life. In October, the sport’s governing body, UCI, accepted USADA’s recommended sanctions. By early November, nearly all of his sponsors had dropped him (including Nike, Anheuser-Busch, RadioShack and Oakley). In mid-November, Armstrong resigned from the board of directors of his foundation, Livestrong. Yet despite all this, and even though 26 of his former teammates have offered damning evidence against him, including several who admit to doping with him, Armstrong hasn’t publicly admitted to taking performance-enhancing drugs.
But that’s about to change because of — who else? — Oprah. The AP is reporting that Lance Armstrong admitted to using performance-enhancing drugs in his recent interview with Oprah, which airs Thursday night on OWN. I’ll be watching not just to see an admission of guilt, but to see an admission that he’s an addict, just like me, and needs help, just like I did.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/01/16/why-lance-armstrong-has-my-sympathy/#ixzz2IGSzjkei
What a wonderful world! I’ll never buy any Armstrong’s LPs any more!
Laurie, you didn’t go after people who told the truth about you or lie about it for years. It’s not the substance abuse... people know that happens. It’s the repeated covering up of it while he was competing.
Lying, cheating, deceit, corruption, self-serving interest, tactics of personal destruction aimed at critics or those tyring to get to the truth resulting in people getting harmed. What is the big deal? We see our government do this every damn day.
Nothing to see here, move on.
FULA
Yes, Laurie Dhue me. . .
That seems unlikely because, when the sponsorship was underway, Armstrong was seen as a hero and the Postal Service benefitted from their association with him.
Laurie Dhue thinks alcohol helped her career in the same way?
She's delusional.
If he cheated, he cheated.
I believe the USPS or any organization that sponsors cycling are enablers. Much the same as all the sportswriters and MLB enabled and turned their blind eye to the juiced up ball players circa 1990s into the 2000s.
All these sponsors knew that cycling was then and always has been dirty but now they want plausible deniability just like the sportswriters now are so pious by punishing the people they cheered on while they were performing unbelievable feats.
I believe the USPS or any organization that sponsors cycling are enablers. Much the same as all the sportswriters and MLB enabled and turned their blind eye to the juiced up ball players circa 1990s into the 2000s.
All these sponsors knew that cycling was then and always has been dirty but now they want plausible deniability just like the sportswriters now are so pious by punishing the people they cheered on while they were performing unbelievable feats.
That’s what I thought too. How could the USPS even afford to sponsor a little league team much less a pro cycling team? Aren’t they suppose to always be so strapped for money?
I have a pretty low tolerance level for folks who continually wag their finger at me while lying through their teeth.
See example sentence immediately above.
I was able to overhear a private cell call this afternoon:
Armstrong: Hey Mant’i T’eo, this is Lance Armstrong.
T’eo: Hey, How are you doing?
Armstrong: Thank you! Thank you!
What kills the USPS is that they basically have to have people go to everyone in America's door six times a week, even if it's to deliver one piece of junk mail that's going to be thrown away unopened.
But when you're talking about a sport where almost everybody is doping I can understand him being angry with fellow dopers who turn on him and testify against him.
So yes, phooey on Lance, he's no role model. I just don't want to make heroes out of accusers who may have their own dirty laundry.
“Remind me again, how many Americans is Armstrong responsible for killing in Benghazi???”
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“When cyclists start blowing up airplanes, let me know.”
GIVE ME A BREAK. There is absolutely no moral equivalence. Unbelievable.
Lance armstrong should run for president...to bad he’s not part of a minority group.
Otherwise, he has all the qualifications.
Lie,cheat and run over everyone on your path to the top.
What is endlessly fascinating? Is how the world is appauled at armstrong for manipulating his way to the top...hahaha
The media...ahhaha..funny stuff.
And for the "also rans", they weren't even given the time of day........
It should also be mentioned that for a guy who was a doped up superman, he's not even in the top 25 of TDF stage winners so what were THEY on......
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