Simeoni/Lance footage
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why didnt he jut knock armstrong off his bike? Cadel would have.
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still exhuming stories from half a dacde ago :roll: ??...pro race needs to move on0
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davey who? you guys still bang on about the doping stuff too much. Can't move on from Lance era threadsDaveyL wrote:Dave_1 wrote:still exhuming stories from half a dacde ago :roll: ??...pro race needs to move on
Thank goodness for that. We'll have no more guff about how brilliant the 80s were then.0 -
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Moray Gub wrote:disgruntledgoat wrote:This one is pretty much 100% nailed down. Simeoni testified against Ferrari, Armstrong was, at the least, friends with Ferrari and called Simeoni an "absolute liar".
Simeoni tried to get some exposure/a stage win/a contract for the following year on a final week transition stage, Armstrong brought his personal grudges into play by ensuring that the break would fail (Hinault-esque in it's way, nobody would win a stage in the early 80s if Bernard deemed otherwise.).
After much abuse and vitriol Armstrong and Simeoni dropped back to the peloton, whereupon Simeoni was mocked and spat on by his fellow professionals. He tried to spoil the USPS victory parade a coule of days later by attacking on the run in to the Champs whilst everybody was larking about and sipping Champagne, again, phlegm and abuse followed. Nice guys pro-cyclists.
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On the spitting angle I am sure i read somewhere might have been in this forum that it was alleged he finished the stage covered in spittle it was subsequently shown to been a load of b ollox. Think maybe Ekimov spat at the ground as he passed him, also he did have a few backers in the peloton if that had happened then all hell would have broken loose. So its probbaly safe to assume thats one of these unsubstantiated urban myths that pop up from time to time. Still makes for a good story even if it is she-ite
he was right to pull up Simeoni. Simeoni of course changed his story to get off lightly for doping by implicating others. Only the lynch mob on here like grassers like Simeoni0 -
Dave as soon as Lance is mentioned, you pop up!
Simeoni says "Armstrong shows what type of man he is... he doesn't leave us little guys the chance to win".0 -
pomtarr wrote:
Yeah, it would have been so much better if he'd kept schtum. Long live the Omerta! :roll:Dave_1 wrote:grassers like Simeoni
Seems CONI and WADA are quite keen on them too..."In many ways, my story was that of a raging, Christ-like figure who hauled himself off the cross, looked up at the Romans with blood in his eyes and said 'My turn, sock cookers'"
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Moray Gub wrote:
On the spitting angle I am sure i read somewhere might have been in this forum that it was alleged he finished the stage covered in spittle it was subsequently shown to been a load of b ollox. Think maybe Ekimov spat at the ground as he passed him, also he did have a few backers in the peloton if that had happened then all hell would have broken loose. So its probbaly safe to assume thats one of these unsubstantiated urban myths that pop up from time to time. Still makes for a good story even if it is she-ite
IIRC Simeoni said that Pozzato spat at him whilst others called him names, spat at the floor, etc.
The vid does shoe that LAs account of what happened that day is nonsense.0 -
Dave_1 wrote:Moray Gub wrote:disgruntledgoat wrote:This one is pretty much 100% nailed down. Simeoni testified against Ferrari, Armstrong was, at the least, friends with Ferrari and called Simeoni an "absolute liar".
Simeoni tried to get some exposure/a stage win/a contract for the following year on a final week transition stage, Armstrong brought his personal grudges into play by ensuring that the break would fail (Hinault-esque in it's way, nobody would win a stage in the early 80s if Bernard deemed otherwise.).
After much abuse and vitriol Armstrong and Simeoni dropped back to the peloton, whereupon Simeoni was mocked and spat on by his fellow professionals. He tried to spoil the USPS victory parade a coule of days later by attacking on the run in to the Champs whilst everybody was larking about and sipping Champagne, again, phlegm and abuse followed. Nice guys pro-cyclists.
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On the spitting angle I am sure i read somewhere might have been in this forum that it was alleged he finished the stage covered in spittle it was subsequently shown to been a load of b ollox. Think maybe Ekimov spat at the ground as he passed him, also he did have a few backers in the peloton if that had happened then all hell would have broken loose. So its probbaly safe to assume thats one of these unsubstantiated urban myths that pop up from time to time. Still makes for a good story even if it is she-ite
he was right to pull up Simeoni. Simeoni of course changed his story to get off lightly for doping by implicating others. Only the lynch mob on here like grassers like Simeoni
Fk me Dave, I'm glad I wasn't at school with you
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