Lance Armstrong is a God

Armstrong "did not come clean in the manner in I expected" according to Oprah.

Let me guess he was pressured into it by some v bad men.

ugh that second 'in' shouldn't be there.

Probably one of these options:

-- I won lots of times without doping.
-- It was part of my cancer treatment, I didn't have any choice.
-- I did it to protect the other guys on the team/my sponsors/whoever.
-- I did way less of it than anyone else.
-- I didn't know what was in there until it was too late.

i hope she presses him on the his pathological need to to absolutely destroy anyone along the way who implicated him in doping. That bothers me more than the actual doping tbh although I can see how one may follow from the other.

I (semi-)joked for years that America might forgive Barry Bonds if he cried in front of Oprah. So I was close.

I have no moral consistency cos I unreservedly love Barry Bonds.

oh me too

I don't give a damn about Lance, cuz multi-day bike race as a huge sporting event, lol

sports, laugh out loud

“I felt he was thorough. He was serious. He certainly prepared himself for this moment. I would say he met the moment. At the end of it, we both were pretty exhausted.”

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I am not sure that comments were what were inserted there

Forceful interjections.

leaked footage of Oprah's first question:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4I4OCgVAv8

"I've only got one left, but it's huge!"

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South Park to thread

Reuters flash: IOC member says cycling could be dropped from Olympics following Armstrong revelations.

I don't know why cyclists all need to race at the same time. Just set up some cameras and have them do the distance whenever they want. This applies to a bunch of other Olympic sports too.

UCI is really cocking this up, some national federations (UK, Italy, NED as of this week) are so far ahead of the UCI on anti-doping. I would be sad but unsurprised if cycling got the boot from the IOC.

McQuaid and Verbruggen Out.

I can understand the love - esp from Americans - but to be honest how can you be blind to his obv drug intake? Sure, it's *legal* but before his cancer treatment (which is epo-like in the rise of red blood cells and thus is a *positive influence*) he was a nobody! Never won a THING and now suddenly he's winning SIX tours?!? It's unfair in my opinion, not fair competition.

― jesus nathalie (nathalie), Friday, July 23, 2004 8:01 AM (8 years ago)

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fwiw americans were blind to his drug intake because they dont follow or understand cycling

is that a shop? Because that pic rules.

hah its real

what he did to other cyclists is unconscionable, like if barry bonds and roger clemens were beloved by everyone in the press and public but behind the scenes bullied and marginalized clean baseball players into retiring and being persona non grata.

yeah thats unquestionably the worst part, although it wasnt just other cyclists he bullied

Bully Lance is definitely worse than cheater Lance.

a friend read tyler hamiltons autobio and he said theres a story in there of tyler and lance training when a car cuts them off so lance takes a short cut stops in front of the car pulls the driver out and beats him up, just a real mean bastard this guy

mcgwire is still a lovable goofball ever after roiding, even bonds was just kind of a hilarious douchebag (didn't he have some amazing thousand dollar throne recliner seat that took up a big corner of the giants' locker room?), but lance was basically a gangster in yellow spandex and sheryl crow dangling off one of his ropey EPO trackmarked arms.

the best was when gary sheffield had beef w bonds because he stole his personal chef

lmao my favorite part of that story was how bonds hired the chef and then later called gary and was like 'huh, why isn't that guy working for you anymore? what happened there?' meanwhile in the background gary could probably hear the sizzle of a stir fry someone was cooking up for barry four ft away.

'oh you want beef? I got this great chef you can come over and have some of mine'

lmao my favorite part of that story was how bonds hired the chef and then later called gary and was like 'huh, why isn't that guy working for you anymore? what happened there?' meanwhile in the background gary could probably hear the sizzle of a stir fry someone was cooking up for barry four ft away.

That is great. That's how trolling is done.

THAT PHOTO

why are oprah and lance talking in front of a lotion table

the cream, the clear, etc

room temperate tap water for me, with a straw. oprah? the same? very good. the same for oprah, please. and, mary? *grabs assistant's wrist, twists it almost imperceptibly* no condensation on the glasses this time, okay?

*smiles, mops brow*

Can I just say

There's a reason why I resisted wearing one of those stupid yellow bracelets in the chemo room? That whole LIVESTRONG thing just rubbed me the wrong way - the way Armstrong was praised for LIVING STRONG and BEATING CANCER, just like it was another Tour de France race. The whole campaign seemed like another example of being STRONG ENOUGH to say NO to DEATH.

When none of that has anything to do with whether you succumb to a disease or not. I do know that Armstrong enjoyed a degree of health care not available to many, many other sufferers of cancer, just like he had some extra medical help in winning those bicycle races. I would feel like a schmuck right now had I held my fist in the air, little rubber band with his name on it dangling from my wrist. It's another example of holding a parade for somebody who was already living on a float.

Someone will argue that at least, in the end, he raised awareness of cancer. You know, cancer, that obscure c-list disease that only people with hazel eyes and left hands get. If anything, he raised the hopes of some that turned out to be artificial, at best.

So at long last, I can feel comfortable about saying Fuck This Guy without getting pelted with a bunch of little lemon powerbars.

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more likely to be Lance's own brand of really terrible Stroopwaffles

i heckled lance at the nyc marathon, thats right everyone, im working on picking out the color for my own bracelets

brown wd be nice

lag∞n's bracelets will read: BEAT THE DEVIL

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monster imo

a friend read tyler hamiltons autobio and he said theres a story in there of tyler and lance training when a car cuts them off so lance takes a short cut stops in front of the car pulls the driver out and beats him up, just a real mean bastard this guy

Yeah, I got the Hamilton book for Xmas. Lance Armstrong is undeniably a cunt, but to be honest I sympathize with him in that particular incident.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/lance-armstrong-admits-to-using-performanceenhanci,30912/

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THAT IS OUTRAGEOUS

"self-righteous egomaniac"? I dunno Onion, that's giving him a lot of credit, especially when "sociopath" is just one word.

Lance Armstrong is a Dog, one you do not trust

Cartoon where Lance Armstrong and Eric Clapton are both claiming to be God(s) and then Sheryl Crow is making a cute smirk like "oh brother, these two guys..." in the next panel

i wonder if he's recanted months of calling ppl pussies on twitter who questioned his original stupid newsweek article?

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