Press starting on Livestrong?
Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
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I've thought for a while that the Foundation was the best thing to have come from Lance's success, and in a way is, and should remain, separate from the doping controversy. How the Foundation spends it's money is a matter for no-one but the Foundation board; they do a lot of good, and arguably raising cancer awareness (how to avoid some forms, early discovery etc.) is as important as the actual treatment.0
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Jesus- what about the girl on the front of the magazine!!
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iainf72 wrote:http://www.outsideonline.com/magazine/Outside-Magazine-February-2012.html
It was bound to happen at some point.
You mean funding a private jet isn't part of it's charitable work?0 -
I do sometimes wonder this actual awareness means. It also seems to be a bit too US based, or at least was a few years ago. Seeing as they get donations from all over the world they should be more global than they are.
Guess now we need to buy the magazine and find out exactly what they are saying.
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andyp wrote:iainf72 wrote:http://www.outsideonline.com/magazine/Outside-Magazine-February-2012.html
It was bound to happen at some point.
You mean funding a private jet isn't part of it's charitable work?
The jet is for sale!
legal fees - agghghghghgh!
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ShinyHelmut wrote:
She looks like a man.0 -
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I seem to remember him getting in hot water from some charity watchdog several years ago. They said too much money was spent on admin and fundraising instead of good causes, that you could give money to others who would put a greater share to good use. My personal view was that Livestrong often looked like a merchandising scheme for Nike.0
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It's been nothing more than a fancy wellness club for years.
Just take a look at the website – http://www.livestrong.com – it's in the healthy lifestyle business. Since the credit crunch it has been recycled as the business and advice portal for fitness and wellbeing.0 -
Le Commentateur wrote:It's been nothing more than a fancy wellness club for years.
Just take a look at the website – http://www.livestrong.com – it's in the healthy lifestyle business. Since the credit crunch it has been recycled as the business and advice portal for fitness and wellbeing.
Livestrong.com is not the charity. It's a for profit business. .org is the charity.Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.0 -
iainf72 wrote:Le Commentateur wrote:It's been nothing more than a fancy wellness club for years.
Just take a look at the website – http://www.livestrong.com – it's in the healthy lifestyle business. Since the credit crunch it has been recycled as the business and advice portal for fitness and wellbeing.
Livestrong.com is not the charity. It's a for profit business. .org is the charity.
Good job that he prevented the confusion by adding the org instead of com eh? Kind of like being asked if he has ever taken PED's and answering about the testing regime.+++++++++++++++++++++
we are the proud, the few, Descendents.
Panama - finally putting a nail in the economic theory of the trickle down effect.0 -
Fwiw - I don't think much of the livestrong spin bikes.0
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cougie wrote:Fwiw - I don't think much of the livestrong spin bikes.
They have these at my gym and for gym bikes they are decent ... Only complaint is that the saddle height is determined by notches rather than actual height ...0 -
Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.0
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cougie wrote:Fwiw - I don't think much of the livestrong spin bikes.
My LeMond revolution however is the business
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I am slightly amazed that anyone could have ever thought that 'Livestrong' was anything other than a cynical attempt by Armstrong to build a public image that was 'positive' enough to deflect all the dirt that he knew would, sooner or later, be made public. Such 'reputation management' is standard fare amongst the powerful and corrupt, or even just the corrupted, as with the 'Charitable foundations' that Landis and Hamilton set up. The main beneficiary of Livestrong.org has always been Armstrong, what with it spending huge sums on legal fees and so forth in order to defend the 'Brand', meaning in effect Armstrong himself. Any good it has done is entirely due to all the volunteers who 'work' for the organisation for free, whilst the managers draw fat salaries.
'Reputation management' is just another form of propaganda, its practitioners swimming in the slime along with advertising executives and those who work in the financial sector bleeding the real, productive economy dry at every turn. As Bill Hicks put it:By the way if anyone here is in advertising or marketing... kill yourself.
No, no, no it's just a little thought. I'm just trying to plant seeds. Maybe one day, they'll take root - I don't know. You try, you do what you can.
Kill yourself.
Seriously though, if you are, do.
Aaah, no really, there's no rationalisation for what you do and you are Satan's little helpers.0 -
Reminds me of this lot...... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology0
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Quite.Ron Stuart wrote:Reminds me of this lot...... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology
http://cozybeehive.blogspot.com/2009/07 ... trong.html0 -
Looks like the Livestrong accolytes & Public Strategies interns have been busy 'astro-turfing' the comments pages on the article.Make mine an Italian, with Campagnolo on the side..0
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Le Commentateur wrote:It's been nothing more than a fancy wellness club for years.
Just take a look at the website – http://www.livestrong.com – it's in the healthy lifestyle business. Since the credit crunch it has been recycled as the business and advice portal for fitness and wellbeing.
It seems that if one ever has any health or exercise question, that is the website that comes up in a google search, if you have a question over an injury, vitamin, things like that. Maybe I will make a note to go to the next site referred to.0 -
Crankbrother wrote:cougie wrote:Fwiw - I don't think much of the livestrong spin bikes.
They have these at my gym and for gym bikes they are decent ... Only complaint is that the saddle height is determined by notches rather than actual height ...
There's no adjust for reach on the bars either - so for me to ride out of the saddle - I have to hoik the bars up high.
And with the saddle being so harsh - I like to do that pretty often.0
