And Sheryl Crow. Hopefully his reign of terror will end soon.
― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Thursday, 22 July 2004 20:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 22 July 2004 20:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 22 July 2004 20:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― duke outdoor, Thursday, 22 July 2004 20:41 (nineteen years ago) link
x-post
― jimmy crackhorn, Thursday, 22 July 2004 20:43 (nineteen years ago) link
(see also Jesse Ventura vs Arnold Schwarzenegger)
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 22 July 2004 20:43 (nineteen years ago) link
(xpost)
― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 22 July 2004 20:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― duke austin, Thursday, 22 July 2004 20:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 22 July 2004 20:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 22 July 2004 20:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― duke support, Thursday, 22 July 2004 20:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― jimmy crackhorn, Thursday, 22 July 2004 21:02 (nineteen years ago) link
Sheryl Crow prior to her own ride up l'Alpe in June.
― Hunter (Hunter), Thursday, 22 July 2004 21:34 (nineteen years ago) link
The Crow-Williams crap is unfortunate, but sounds like a hell of a lot of people are making unwarranted assumptions about him to justify the hate. Frankly, his dominance doesn´t piss me off anywhere near as much as, say, Sampras´s in tennis.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 22 July 2004 22:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matt (Matt), Friday, 23 July 2004 01:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Porkpie (porkpie), Friday, 23 July 2004 07:29 (nineteen years ago) link
That's the thing with Lance -- he never fires the first shot in a war of words, but once that first shot is fired, he's relentless.
Although this "no more gifts" thing from yesterday may be an exception -- I still don't know wtf he's talking about.
― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Friday, 23 July 2004 07:36 (nineteen years ago) link
Lance is pretty dogged if he feels that someone's against him. I guess it's what makes him the competitor that he is, but also something I find really off-putting about him.
― NickB (NickB), Friday, 23 July 2004 07:43 (nineteen years ago) link
It's particularly off-putting that he talked about "no gifts" right after openly admitting that he gave his teammate the go-ahead to try and win the stage.
― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Friday, 23 July 2004 08:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Porkpie (porkpie), Friday, 23 July 2004 08:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 23 July 2004 08:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― Porkpie (porkpie), Friday, 23 July 2004 08:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― anthony, Friday, 23 July 2004 08:53 (nineteen years ago) link
"I had assumed, because he and Bush were Texans and I’d seen pictures of them laughing and joking in the Oval Office, that Armstrong was a Republican. But he says his politics are “middle to Left”. He is “against mixing up State and Church, not keen on guns, pro women’s right to choose”. And very anti war in Iraq."
Sadly, I made the same assumptions as Alistair Campbell! a mistake i'll try never to repeat...
But, whoever said above that i had negative images of Armstrong cos he came from Texas... NO NO NO. i LOVE Armstrong and the fact that he's disassociated himself from Bush makes me love him all the more...(tho not as much as yesterday's unbelievable sprint finish!).
Also, I've got relatives in Austin and have been there several times and thorougly enjoyed it, so i'm not anti-Texans in general either.
this thread was meant to be Armstrong love, people. Sorry for any confusion...
― Jay 79 (jaybob79), Friday, 23 July 2004 08:53 (nineteen years ago) link
If he's not making ref. to the Basso stage win, then he must be referring to his decision to chase down Klodi at the line yesterday, that is, not give him the "gift" of breaking away for the stage win without putting up a fight at the end.
The thing is, that was no gift, that was Klodi's fuckup pure and simple. The last few km were ALL Ullrich -- he chased down Landis not once but twice, and then duped the others into thinking he was going to play cat-and-mouse for the last km, which caused everyone to ease up and gave his teammate the oppurtunity to attack. And it was a great attack -- nobody reacted in the least -- but he ran out of gas 10 seconds later, appeared to ease up with about 500 m to go, couldn't finish strong, and checked the wrong blind spot twice looking for someone trying to outsprint him to the line. If Klodi had broken away and won, there's be no talk of gifts, just of great riding by the T-Mobile boys.
(xposts)
― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Friday, 23 July 2004 08:54 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9910-1018310,00.html
― Jay 79 (jaybob79), Friday, 23 July 2004 08:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jay 79 (jaybob79), Friday, 23 July 2004 08:56 (nineteen years ago) link
That would be particularly tasteless in light of Pantani's death earlier in the year, even though there was no love lost between the two of them after that incident in 2000.
― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Friday, 23 July 2004 09:05 (nineteen years ago) link
supposedly eddy merckx told lance, after he let pantani take a TdF stage many years ago (which pantani was reportedly offended by BTW), "gifts are for birthdays" and it has been a syndrome with lance for a long time it's true, he is all about the G.C., and in some ways only about it. merckx and hinault are disappointed by this, the respective cannibal and badger there before him. he is not in the footsteps of lemond and indurain so much as in theirs, style-wise, but eddy and bernard don't seem to understand at all this kind of aw-shucks side, that is in fact more like greg's and miguel's outlooks. BTW greg lemond though what an asshole, i'm bummed out by him i must say. just like for lance, he used to be a hero to me. but lance is going for that even earlier style full-bore now, and it is fucking awesome.
― duke liege, Friday, 23 July 2004 09:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Friday, 23 July 2004 09:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Friday, 23 July 2004 11:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Friday, 23 July 2004 11:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Friday, 23 July 2004 11:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Friday, 23 July 2004 11:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Friday, 23 July 2004 11:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Friday, 23 July 2004 11:23 (nineteen years ago) link
If Armstrong thought the drunk Germans on l'Alpe were bad, he'll have fun if he ever does the Giro in Simeoni's neighborhood.
― Hunter (Hunter), Friday, 23 July 2004 13:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― David Beckhouse (David Beckhouse), Friday, 23 July 2004 14:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― jesus nathalie (nathalie), Friday, 23 July 2004 15:01 (nineteen years ago) link
While very, very few would have said Armstrong would become a TdF GC dominator, the guy is clearly a bizzare outlier on the physiological curve. Very very few thought he'd ever even race again if he lived.
NOW. I'm no Lance groupie. All this does not mean that he never doped, or that he's not doping. He was rumored to be an hgh user pre-cancer, from what I've heard.
― Hunter (Hunter), Friday, 23 July 2004 15:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― stephen morris (stephen morris), Friday, 23 July 2004 15:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 23 July 2004 15:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 23 July 2004 15:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 23 July 2004 15:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― TheRealJMod (TheRealJMod), Friday, 23 July 2004 15:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Friday, 23 July 2004 15:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 23 July 2004 16:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 23 July 2004 16:13 (nineteen years ago) link
And then it'll be won a bunch of times by some guy called Bance Harmstong do u see
― peligro, Friday, 18 January 2013 18:05 (eleven years ago) link
maybe we shouldn't look up to sportspeople so much as paragons of human achievement or virtue, but as entertainers
― imago, Friday, 18 January 2013 18:07 (eleven years ago) link
idk this kinda kills me to write as I would like to believe in corinthian values, level playing-fields and the like
team sports don't bring out the cynic in me nearly so much - cycling and athletics are rigged games trying their damnedest to put on an outward show of cleanness and it's a shame because they can be extremely good fun to watch - they can carry with them the catharsis of sublime victory - but beneath it all is the drugs narrative and it puts me off
― imago, Friday, 18 January 2013 18:10 (eleven years ago) link
The PED testing done today, while not perfect, is incredibly more advanced than it was even say like 4 years ago... particularly in the chemical analysis regarding steroids, blood/oxygen-boosters, blood transfusions.
Hormone testing is much more sophisticated, but a lot of the masking agents are now easier to detect (FSchleck for example).
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 18 January 2013 18:13 (eleven years ago) link
strange guy http://gawker.com/5977073/presenting-the-most-awkward-moment-from-lance-armstrongs-oprah-interview-his-failed-fat-joke
― lag∞n, Friday, 18 January 2013 19:10 (eleven years ago) link
A smirk smeared across his face, Armstrong wistfully recalls how he called Besty "crazy" and "a bitch."
Then, for one horrible moment, you can and watch Lance sit back "read the room."
Time for a little comedy.
"I did call her crazy….I did. I did. I think she'd be okay with me saying this, but…I'm gonna take the liberty to say it. [When we spoke on the phone recently,] I said 'Listen, I called you ‘crazy,' I called you ‘a bitch.' I called you all these things…but I never called you ‘fat.'"
Then, Armstrong pauses for laughter.
He pauses a little longer for laughter.
He waits and waits for the laughter to come, while the camera cuts to a brilliant shot of Oprah blinking at him, her eyelids heavy under the weight of gravitas.
"'Cause…" he begins. Maybe Oprah didn't get the joke? Maybe if he explains the joke it will become funny and he and Oprah will laugh and laugh and she'll scrap the whole interview and take him to OS-TRAIL-YAAAAA instead?
"…She thought I said ‘You are a fat, crazy bitch,'" he flails, reaching out for a lifesaver. Unfortunately Oprah's soul has already left her body; she floats above the room and watches him die.
"…And I said," he repeats "‘Betsy…I never said you were fat.'"
Okay, Oprah's done. She moves on.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, 18 January 2013 19:14 (eleven years ago) link
u_u
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 18 January 2013 19:16 (eleven years ago) link
making a fat joke to oprah is just...alien behavior.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, 18 January 2013 19:17 (eleven years ago) link
these are the the things that make me feel okay for disliking him all these years. douche
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 18 January 2013 19:21 (eleven years ago) link
He called her fat and ugly for the record.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 18 January 2013 19:24 (eleven years ago) link
espn is really burying this story
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Saturday, 19 January 2013 00:21 (eleven years ago) link
at least on their website. 8th story down on the sidebar, below alvin gentry getting canned and tiger missing the cut.
lance armstrong on oprah: sort of like watching a play about the crucifixion?
― Z S, Saturday, 19 January 2013 04:44 (eleven years ago) link
but actor jesus reaaaally sucks
― Z S, Saturday, 19 January 2013 04:45 (eleven years ago) link
http://gawker.com/5977456/australian-library-moves-lance-armstrongs-books-to-the-fiction-section
― Stop Gerrying Me! (onimo), Monday, 21 January 2013 15:31 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/21/australian-library-lance-armstrong-fiction
― abanana, Monday, 21 January 2013 16:19 (eleven years ago) link
True Crime surely?
― pandemic, Monday, 21 January 2013 16:27 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/21/us/actually-that-lance-armstrong-library-thing-was-real-after-all-man-this-is-confusing/index.html?hpt=us_c2
― the legend of bigger yansh (some dude), Monday, 21 January 2013 16:27 (eleven years ago) link
http://veloclinic.tumblr.com/post/41480107464
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 26 January 2013 18:22 (eleven years ago) link
http://playtrue.wada-ama.org/news/statement-from-wada-president-john-fahey-in-response-to-uci-press-release-of-january-28-2013/
― Confused Turtle (Zora), Tuesday, 29 January 2013 14:59 (eleven years ago) link
Sack Fat Pat
I hope everyone is aware of the mascot the World Road Championships organising comittee in tuscany chose this year. Very Appropriate
http://cycling-passion.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/UCI-Road-World-Championships-Toscana-Tuscany-2013-Symbol-Pinocchio-300x300.jpg
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Tuesday, 29 January 2013 15:07 (eleven years ago) link
that's perfect
― well if it isn't old 11 cameras simon (gbx), Tuesday, 29 January 2013 15:22 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, that's amazing.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 15:23 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOxQ6aEWNJU
― Confused Turtle (Zora), Saturday, 2 February 2013 14:13 (eleven years ago) link
^^ that is not what it looks like. Watch out for the bit where his eyes flash and his wheels catch fire...
― Confused Turtle (Zora), Saturday, 2 February 2013 14:14 (eleven years ago) link
He's back!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4q2QsqatfLA
Jesus H.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 21 April 2013 16:18 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/smiley-fc/drums.gif
― markers, Sunday, 21 April 2013 16:57 (eleven years ago) link
Bill Brock, Betsy Andreu and Greg & Kathy LeMond talk about doping http://new.livestream.com/ut-comm/events/2050748
― you may not like it now but you will (Zora), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 12:17 (eleven years ago) link
(It starts at about 40:00)
― you may not like it now but you will (Zora), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 12:18 (eleven years ago) link
So.....hey what's up?
Howard Stern welcomed comedienne April Macie back to his satellite radio show Monday morning, and Macie spilled the goods about a variety of topics, including the night that champion cyclist Lance Armstrong asked her to perform an extremely dirty sexual act on him in a hotel bathroom.
Macie said that she and a friend met Armstrong at a club in Los Angeles and then went back to his Peninsula hotel room to party with some friends. When Macie stepped into the bathroom, though, she bore witness to a very different kind of party than the one she had expected.
"I went to use the bathroom, and I went in and Lance was bent over a bathtub and she was just face deep in his a**hole...I was terrified. And then he came out and said: ‘Does your friend want in on a round too?’ and I was like: 'Of taint tickling? I’m gonna take a pass'..I think it’s hilarious that he would ask without even knowing my first name—to eat his a**hole. Like: ‘Do you want in on a round too? Of **hole eating?...I got pretty for the evening. I didn’t know he was going to ask me to eat his asshole later on.”
Macie said that the incident happened "five or six years ago," long before Armstrong was hit with the brunt of the massive drug scandal in which he was accused of using steroids to win seven consecutive Tour de France titles from 1999-2005. In January 2013, Armstrong finally admitted to the doping allegations after years of denying them.
― unfinest DN (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 23 May 2013 12:07 (ten years ago) link
finally, evidence that armstrong may be human
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 23 May 2013 17:35 (ten years ago) link
sorry
ASPEN, Colo. -- Authorities say disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong hit two parked cars after a night of partying in Aspen but agreed to let his girlfriend take the blame to avoid national attention.
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 3 February 2015 19:03 (nine years ago) link
agreed to let his girlfriend take the blame agreed to let his girlfriend take the blame agreed to let his girlfriend take the blame agreed to let his girlfriend take the blame agreed to let his girlfriend take the blame agreed to let his girlfriend take the blame agreed to let his girlfriend take the blame agreed to let his girlfriend take the blame
― Aimless, Tuesday, 3 February 2015 19:10 (nine years ago) link