Lance Armstrong is a God

A bad day for jaybob79

Nike are choosing to celebrate this with the release of a 15 years of livestrong range. I sincerely hope that if trek doesn't drop lance's sorry arse they'll never sell another Madone in Europe.

The older guys, especially hincapie, can go fuck themselves but Zabriskie's story is pretty heartbreaking, pressured into doping after loosing his father to drug abuse. He still owns it though.

EPO all in my veins,
Lately things don't seem the same,
Acting funny, don't know why,
'Scuse me while I pass the guy

Sang by zabriskie in the team bus

Dave Z's song is part of the 'things like are kinda lol but mostly sad' canon.

I love this story:

According to two witnesses, the US Postal team doctor Pedro Celaya (who is charged by Usada and will face a hearing later this year) was thrown into a panic at the 1998 Tour de France by the Festina scandal, in which the French team was caught red-handed with a vast medicine cabinet of illegal drugs. Celaya flushed tens of thousands of dollars' worth of drugs down the toilet – though this would not have been much help if the French police had raided the team, because the toilet was in a camper van.

How Armstrong Beat Cycling’s Drug Tests

The most basic technique outlined in the report, based on affidavits from some of Armstrong’s former teammates, was simply running away or hiding.

ha

http://www.sebastianbraff.com/2012/07/dear-lance-armstrong.html

The simplest was pretending not to be home when the testers arrived. As long as they were in the city they had reported as their locations, the riders found they would not receive a warning for not answering the door.

man this dude never jumped out of space, fuck him

I don't want to see you lose your seven titles only to have them go to the second place doper who wasn't caught

otm, could i give two shits about this, no cos fuck cycling

The second place doper was caught, btw (and the third, and the fourth...)

i know but only strengthens the point rly

give em to meee

Phil Liggett really is a twat:
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/despite-usadas-evidence-liggett-remains-armstrongs-supporter
The best bit: "I had an email from an eminent scientist from the US yesterday. An SMS actually. It said if Lance Armstrong had taken the drugs outlined by USADA he’d have been dead ten years ago. He’s an eminent scientist and a very intelligent man. I don’t know his name, the SMS came from a secondary person.”

"Well, Paul, I don't know why they call Lance a drug cheat...I mean, he only took on two needles of EPO over L'Alpe d'Huez...I got a text that said so..."

i foresee enforced retirement in phil's future

classic phil, misidentifying a text message as an email as it rejoins the leading group on the slopes of l'alpe d'huez

can wiggins somehow be implicated? mainly cos he's such a "mod" twat.

i foresee enforced retirement in phil's future

― single pun theory (haitch), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 08:17 (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Unfortunately NBC employ him and given how the whole affair is going down in the states I don't think his senile ramblings are going to get him sacked (I mean, they haven't to date)

that liggett stuff is kinda rambling and weird. like he kinda knows he's wrong but can't actually say it.

xpost

Him and Lance are deeply invested in Paul Sherwen's gold mine in South Africa (an actual gold mine that gold comes out of)

huh

Paul Sherwen ‏@PaulSherwen
Just read Tyler Hamilton's book The Secret Race in 2 days on the plane, now I have the background to my next 202 pages of reading

Paul Sherwen ‏@PaulSherwen
Ploughing through the USADA report, after Hamilton book last week, I am not sure if this is Al Capone or Alien I am reading

Not a single fuck given about his doping.

can wiggins somehow be implicated? mainly cos he's such a "mod" twat.

― Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Tuesday, October 16, 2012 1:25 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Implicated, no. There's a heap of suspicion around the whole Sky set-up, including Wiggo, but the only direct links to the doping scandals are Rogers, Yates and Dr. Leinders, anyway if you fancy playing piley-ons just check out the Clinic threads on the Cycling Weekly forum.

http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest/347276/the-big-interview-paul-sherwen.html

You live in Uganda where you have interests in a gold mine, and you balance that with your commentating work, how does the year pan out for you?
PS: I start off by going to Australia in January to commentate on the Tour Down Under with Phil, and in February we do the Tour of California. Then every weekend from March until June I travel from Uganda to New York to work on a programme called Cyclisme Sunday for the Versus network. We review the week and commentate on whatever race is on that Sunday.

I start out on Friday and go from Entebbe to Amsterdam, then Amsterdam to New York. I do the return trip every Monday and I’m at my desk on Tuesday morning. As well as the mining business I have another business that supplies logistics to the oil industry here. Oil has been discovered in Uganda and they expect to be pumping it out in 2009. After that it’s the Tour de France.

See also:

http://velorooms.com/files/ArmstrongBusinessConnectionsV2.pdf

dont tell me these things, i love those dudes low key banter

Wiggins is more guilty of lol boring race strategy rather than doping (except the sideburns, they've been boosted in some way).

don't care about paul sherwen, but it bums me out to learn bad things about phil liggett. was I so naive?

cant believe buffoony mcclownshow is a rudderless idiot. paul sherwen looks like a motherfucker with some dark secrets, etc.

If anyone likes the warm fuzzy feel of wool over their eyes, I for one 'd be more than happy to take the dope talk to another thread?

When I said Cycling Weekly upthread I meant Cycling NEWS, argh.

hahaha cranky frankie

http://redkiteprayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Frankie-537x400.jpg

pelkey:

http://redkiteprayer.com/2012/10/the-explainer-im-shocked-shocked-i-say/

lol, the photo

http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/13076/Taylor-Phinney-Interview-Getting-the-pill-culture-out-of-the-sport.aspx

taylor seems like one of the good guys - hope he's not all talk.

He's stepping down as chairman of livestrong, AP says

Nike dropped him too.

Trek's stony silence becoming even more embarrassing as are the actions of their local congressman.

another god with feet of clay

Lance Armstrong has done more for cancer survivors than any other person/organiziation, not only the 'sexy' cancers, but all cancers. I will continue to wear my Livestrong gear, covering any Nike swoosh, yea for yellow! Nike I am disappointed with your decision.

I, for one, never met a spreading, deadly cancerous tumor that I didn't find sexy.

http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/athletes/lance-armstrong/Its-Not-About-the-Lab-Rats.html?page=all

Armstrong's connection to the cause of fighting cancer was a symbiotic one. He gained a lot from it, just as they gained from it, too.

His celebrity assisted in fundraising and publicity for charitable organizations, but his association with those organizations and the cause of fighting cancer in turn increased his celebrity and bolstered his public image, allowing him to earn greater endorsements and attract sponsors. His public image also helped to protect his ass while all the doping rumors swirled around him.

not so sure his rep with the wider public will suffer all that much tbh

He has certainly achieved the status of being known far, far beyond his sport, and so this scandal, because it is in a purely sports context, may not touch his reputation very much.

Are you guys kidding? LiveStrong and Nike dropped him. What positive press is he going to get from this point on?

"This is Phil Liggett...LEAVE LANCE ALONE!"

He's been turned away from running a couple big city marathons, though I guess he's still doing triathlons here and there.

yeah i think the floor of support is broken until he somehow earns redemption. in usa, that means some time out of the headlines, or a kardashian.

Trek have dropped him now, according to Walsh on twitter

his 2nd comeback is going to be even more insufferable, isn't it