NY Times - Cyclists are said to back claims Armstrong doped

Anonymous
Anonymous Posts: 79,667
edited July 2011 in Pro race
Prolly be in the NY Times today...

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/05/sport ... .html?_r=1
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  • Monty Dog
    Monty Dog Posts: 20,614
    George Hincapie?
    Make mine an Italian, with Campagnolo on the side..
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Possibly...

    Could be DZ, Hamilton, Leipheimer (allegations against him at Gerolsteiner came out recently)...
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    edited August 2010
    K-Rayzee Doppfle Posten.
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    It's amazing there are so many bitter people who love cancer out there. Don't they realise the scientific evidence says he didn't dope? (aside from the failed tests, the wierd blood values and the urine that was like baby wee)

    It's not Hamilton as the article says they never tested positive
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    iainf72 wrote:

    It's not Hamilton as the article says they never tested positive

    Roger. Just re-read it now I'm awake!
  • Gazzaputt
    Gazzaputt Posts: 3,227
    For the cyclists that say Lance doped will they report on the numbers that say he didn't ?
  • Monty Dog
    Monty Dog Posts: 20,614
    Hmm, guess that makes me a 'cancer-lover' too? I may as well get this in now as a pre-emptive strike before the rabid fanboys adopt their usual tactics...
    Make mine an Italian, with Campagnolo on the side..
  • dulldave
    dulldave Posts: 949
    Gazzaputt wrote:
    For the cyclists that say Lance doped will they report on the numbers that say he didn't ?

    Oh dear. I don't think federal investigations come to their conclusions based on a vote.

    Anyway, a pro cyclist that categorically says another did not dope is either stupid or lying given that it's impossible to know what your team mates are up to 100% of the time.
    Scottish and British...and a bit French
  • The riders who corroborate the Landis claims automatically lack credibility.
    They are just making old news even older.
    Why bother to talk about the SS on a DD?
    Only Lance has credibility.
    We know this, because he told us so.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • dg74
    dg74 Posts: 656
    I'm beginning to find the whole episode reprehensible

    In the words of Hunter S. Thompson

    "The sharks are circling and they sense blood"
  • Homer J
    Homer J Posts: 920
    it does not surprise me that any pro cyclist has doped. But it just don't get the selling the bikes bit to fund it, those guys are loaded :?
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    The riders who corroborate the Landis claims automatically lack credibility.
    They are just making old news even older.
    Why bother to talk about the SS on a DD?
    Only Lance has credibility.
    We know this, because he told us so.

    Worst limerick ever!
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  • robert-sb
    robert-sb Posts: 118
    RichN95 wrote:

    Worst limerick ever!

    OK, how bout

    Lance is in a spot of trouble
    If Georgie talks it could be double
    The Feds smell blood
    With luck they could
    Go burst the dodgy LA bubble
  • calvjones
    calvjones Posts: 3,850
    Plebs.

    Morning mist rises
    Athlete: so strong in Spring sun
    In Autumn; is f****d


    [/jones-san]
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  • Slapshot
    Slapshot Posts: 211
    Mellow Johnny has lived with such luck,
    From the testers he’s managed to duck,
    Now Floydy’s come back
    Put him on the rack,
    Can Lance now just get to f***


    As we know Lance is quite keen on yellow
    7 times, the remarkable fellow,
    His Tour friends, finished sunning,
    To the feds have gone running,
    Now old Johnny is not quite so mellow
  • greeny12
    greeny12 Posts: 759
    There was a bike rider named Lance
    Who led testers a merry old dance
    But then the Feds got stuck in
    Chucked his good name in the bin
    And perhaps gave clean cycling a chance?
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  • dulldave
    dulldave Posts: 949
    I reckon Lance gave himself the name Mellow Johnny. If anyone else thought of it, it must have been as a p1sstake*.

    Not even his biggest fans would describe him as mellow. Perhaps Tranquilo Johnny might be more apt given the circumstances anyway.



    * I know the supposed origin, so need posting up to tell me.
    Scottish and British...and a bit French
  • Percy Vera
    Percy Vera Posts: 1,103
    Lance in the dictionary means clean,
    Everyone thinks he's a has been.
    People say he failed a drug test,
    But he's simply better than the rest!
    The feds will never catch this old bean.









    Do Limericks have to be based on truth?
    :lol:
  • calvjones
    calvjones Posts: 3,850
    *mods* purleease...
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  • Splottboy
    Splottboy Posts: 3,695
    Well, EVERYONE else is throwing stuff at someone who's INNOCENT until PROVEN guilty.

    Thought it would balance things up to make it even, about someone who was PROVEN to be GUILTY!!!

    A bit of a Fair and Balanced aproach, maybe?...

    Try it some of you, it MAY work.
  • Monty Dog
    Monty Dog Posts: 20,614
    Yes, the earth is flat and the moon made of cheese too....
    Make mine an Italian, with Campagnolo on the side..
  • calvjones
    calvjones Posts: 3,850
    Splottboy wrote:
    Well, EVERYONE else is throwing stuff at someone who's INNOCENT until PROVEN guilty.

    Thought it would balance things up to make it even, about someone who was PROVEN to be GUILTY!!!

    A bit of a Fair and Balanced aproach, maybe?...

    Try it some of you, it MAY work.

    Fair enough if you want to make that point but maybe you could have chosen a better example...
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  • BikingBernie
    BikingBernie Posts: 2,163
    NapoleonD wrote:
    It's on the front page of the paper version... :wink:

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  • Gazzaputt
    Gazzaputt Posts: 3,227
    NapoleonD wrote:
    It's on the front page of the paper version... :wink:

    scan.jpg

    Bet that one is in the scrap book Bernie.
  • Still, the front page of a major daily.
    The US general public have been brought up upon a press and media characterisation of Lance as a sort of Marvel comic book hero.
    This will come as a shock to those who know of him only through his celebrity status.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • New York... That's somewhere in France, right?
  • pollys_bott
    pollys_bott Posts: 1,012
    Is that defense lawyer for real?

    “... the bottom line is, if you take away the soap opera and look at the scientific evidence, there is nothing.” Don't a failed corticosteroid test, EPO in urine samples and dodgy blood values count as scientific evidence on Planet Lance?

    Daly said the reasons behind the investigation were still “very murky for us.” Errr, try re-arranging the following words into a coherent sentence: fraudulent, use, of, money, Federal.

    “If Lance Armstrong came in second in those Tour de France races, there’s no way that Lance Armstrong would be involved in these cases,” Daly said. “I think that the concern is that they are caught up in the pursuit of a celebrity to catch him in a lie.” Well, at least he's got the last six words right...
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    Is that defense lawyer for real?

    He's a defence lawyer, what do you expect? It's his job.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    He's clearly playing the theatrical role. Presumably because the legal defence is crumbling faster than a sandcastle when the tide comes in?
  • rockmount
    rockmount Posts: 761
    Kléber wrote:
    He's clearly playing the theatrical role. Presumably because the legal defence is crumbling faster than a sandcastle when the tide comes in?
    Still waiting for the prosecution to amount to as much as a ripple !
    .. who said that, internet forum people ?