This week's "feed the ego" episode
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Dennis, I have to hand it to you, your naive faith in Armstrong has a sweet old fashioned charm and I have developed a respect for your faith in the man - but isn't it quite extraordinary that such a big name in US sports broadcasting should basically say 'we're so over you we don't care about the inevitable blacklisting we'll receive'. Or perhaps people are waking up to the fact that Armstrong really is, as you say, simply a man0
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micron wrote:Dennis, I have to hand it to you, your naive faith in Armstrong has a sweet old fashioned charm and I have developed a respect for your faith in the man - but isn't it quite extraordinary that such a big name in US sports broadcasting should basically say 'we're so over you we don't care about the inevitable blacklisting we'll receive'. Or perhaps people are waking up to the fact that Armstrong really is, as you say, simply a man
I'm really not an Armstring guy one way or another(like or dislike). He's a hell of a rider,
that's for sure. What's he really like? Damned if I know. What I do know is that he's not
a demon, devil, angel, alien, superman, wizard, or the like. He's a human, that rides a bike very well. I also have my doubts that he is masterminding much of anything except racing a bicycle and promoting cancer awareness upon his return to racing. I still say he probably just misses "mixing it up" with the boys. I don't read a lot of magazines but I have never heard of Mike Celizic. He might be "big" but I don't know. I really don't even read newspapers much. More of a novel type guy. Read Lances first book out of curiousity, didn't really do much for me. Right now I'm slogging my way through James Joyces "Ulysses". Why you ask? Because you're supposed to read.it. That's what "they" say. Anyway, if it doesn't start catching my interest soon, I'll go back to reading Lance and give up on the classics. I once read somewhere that "Ulysses"
has more books written about it than any other book except the Bible.
Dennis Noward0 -
Whoa there Dennis - you've strayed into religon0
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skavanagh.bikeradar wrote:Whoa there Dennis - you've strayed into religon
i did get a little out of control on that one. Oh well.
Dennis Noward0 -
The only thing Armstrong misses is everybody sucking up to him. All this about him having a meeting with the tour to decide on next years tour,it dosnt need him and all his followers. Its the tour de france not the Lance Armstrong media circus! Can you imagine Evans or Contador etc having such a meeting. This will he wont he is playing up to his huge ego he cant stand not to be in control.0
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And even better...micron wrote:It comes to something when even your own country's media start seeing through you and say enough's enough http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/27793457/
Lance's Francophobia just a convenient excuse
...I thought of that day when I read in The Guardian this week that Lance Armstrong is now hedging on his plans to return to the Tour de France in 2009 because of "aggressive, angry emotions" in France. Armstrong came off as a little bit paranoid in the interview, claiming at one point that the wife of a former teammate has been online, around the clock, maintaining a blog devoted to his downfall.
It doesn't appear that any such blog exists. But the stuff about the angry French seems like the zaniest conspiracy theory of all.
"If you believe what you read my personal safety could be in jeopardy," Armstrong said. "Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road. I try to believe that people, even if they don't like me, will let the race unfold."
One can't help suspect that Armstrong is using this stuff as preemptive spin to set the stage for an upcoming decision to back out of the Tour. The organizers, after all, called him an embarrassment to their sport, and other riders and sport insiders have expressed dread about his return. Now Armstrong is returning the mistrust. One senses that he underestimated the climate of suspicion that has taken over since he retired in July of 2005.
"There're directors of French teams that have encouraged people to take to the streets," Armstrong said in the interview. "Elbow to elbow. It's very emotional and tense."
Well, I can't speak about France today, but from 2004 to 2007, my neighbors were pretty chill. Even the day after Bush got re-elected, the dominant attitude in my little town was indifference. I always thought the "France hates us" stuff was a Fox News projection...
http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/iteam/ ... a-con.html0 -
My impression was that the French really liked LA at the beginning, more than they ever first took to Lemond, who at first was judged an intruder (they, like me, later changed their minds about Lemond).Monty Dog wrote:Wasn't it great for the 3 or so years where we didn't have a PR machine churning out this derivative junk? If he doesn't like the French then don't effing turn up! Sounds like he 'wants' the Tour more than it 'needs' him IMO.
With LA, the turnaround came when he decided the French didn't like him. There was no evidence of this at the time and for a while the French spectators and media were perplexed what to think. But then, after he said 'you don't like me', although it hadn't entered their heads before , the French then assessed him in more detail and decided they actually did have reason to dislike him.
Some people live on the idea that a proportion of people who are important to them actually dislike them, so they then have to prove themselves in defiance. I think this applies to LA.0 -
Didn't Lance's anti-French mentality start when he was initially diagnosed with cancer and Cofidis dropped him.
He was/is very bitter about the way he was treated and transferred all that hatred - and I mean hatred - towards all things French0
