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
― TheRealJMod (TheRealJMod), Friday, 23 July 2004 16:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― Speedy (Speedy Gonzalas), Saturday, 24 July 2004 06:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Speedy (Speedy Gonzalas), Saturday, 24 July 2004 06:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Saturday, 24 July 2004 07:25 (nineteen years ago) link
what duke said above; plus, more specifically, that's what hinault said to him at the podium following that stage victory earlier this week. when armstrong said it to reporters that day, he was repeating the words of hinault, who had been chiding armstrong once again, for his history of "giving" stage victories to other riders.
― jimmy crackhorn, Saturday, 24 July 2004 13:06 (nineteen years ago) link
No, of course not. But based on what I knew beforehand - he seemed to be coming from *nowhere* and what I read in the press - made me doubt him. I am still unconvinced even based on what you told me. Anyway sorry. And Scott, feh off, I didn't mean that at all! :-)
― jesus nathalie (nathalie), Saturday, 24 July 2004 13:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 24 July 2004 14:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 24 July 2004 14:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― duke over, Saturday, 24 July 2004 16:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― duke seconds, Saturday, 24 July 2004 16:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 24 July 2004 16:19 (nineteen years ago) link
Even better, then!
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 24 July 2004 16:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― David Beckhouse (David Beckhouse), Saturday, 24 July 2004 17:31 (nineteen years ago) link
x-post
No, no, no apology needed for sure. I was just sayin.
Speedy, while you're in Boise, I was marshalling the Mt. Evans Hill Climb. It was 45 degrees and drizzly at my checkpoint at 8000 ft, I'm really glad I didn't have to go to the top at 14,100 ft. I'm guessing it had to be in the 20's up there. Oh, and Vaughters was riding in his old CA gear--in the Citizens category. I cheered him, he laughed.
― Hunter (Hunter), Saturday, 24 July 2004 17:35 (nineteen years ago) link
And the only way to be sure that someone is doping is if they a) test positive, or b) admit it. Period. Speculation is a useless excercise . Once you start speculating, then everyone starts looking guilty which again gets you nowhere.
― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 24 July 2004 17:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Saturday, 24 July 2004 19:02 (nineteen years ago) link
This highly focused training means, among other things 1) Lance has to be in peak form for only three weeks of the year, 2) since he's not competing in many other races, then he's got more time to train on the actual TdF route. It's no secret that Lance knows the routes (and the climbs in particular), far better than any of his competitors. But there's no way you can race a full season and still find time to do this -- as part of his training, Lance and his team ride the entire route at least once or twice, and the main climbs even more than that.
― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 24 July 2004 19:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― duke bonds, Saturday, 24 July 2004 19:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Saturday, 24 July 2004 19:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― duke flight, Saturday, 24 July 2004 20:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― duke paris, Saturday, 24 July 2004 20:05 (nineteen years ago) link
my husband joked that the main reason lance wants to win: his new girlfriend. hah!
― jesus nathalie (nathalie), Saturday, 24 July 2004 20:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 24 July 2004 20:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 24 July 2004 20:49 (nineteen years ago) link
He's back!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4q2QsqatfLA
Jesus H.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 21 April 2013 16:18 (ten years ago) link
http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/smiley-fc/drums.gif
― markers, Sunday, 21 April 2013 16:57 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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