Lance Armstrong gets life ban,loses 7 TDF,confesses he doped

dave_1

I find his recent cursing re 2002 story written of in 2013 on Twitter and then his defiant message on Strava to be contradictory...one the 1 hand..telling us to move on and forget old news..and then being so defiant on his strava profile over exactly a decade ago..it's an insight into a more and more troubled mental state. I still won't be surprised if he eventually confesses. Comments like Bettini's must be thought provoking too. But if he can't get a deal on staying out of jail, I guess he won't confess for a long time yet. Wonder how his family life is...must be crap I guess...

shinyhelmut

Betsy Andreu interview;

http://competitorradio.competitor.com/

ocdupalais

ShinyHelmut wrote:

Betsy Andreu interview;

http://competitorradio.competitor.com/

Great stuff - thanks for that Shiny...

I think Betsy Andreu is fantastic. As David Walsh alluded - she's been a shining beacon of integrity in this sordid affair; yet can still introduce levity and humour at times when everyone else has gotten bogged down with careful wording and intensely managed media "interactions"... She still catches herself from time to time in case she's saying something outrageously slanderous, but after all this time, here's a woman enjoying her free speech.

Richmond Racer

OCDuPalais wrote:

ShinyHelmut wrote:

Betsy Andreu interview;

http://competitorradio.competitor.com/

Great stuff - thanks for that Shiny...

I think Betsy Andreu is fantastic. As David Walsh alluded - she's been a shining beacon of integrity in this sordid affair; yet can still introduce levity and humour at times when everyone else has gotten bogged down with careful wording and intensely managed media "interactions"... She still catches herself from time to time in case she's saying something outrageously slanderous, but after all this time, here's a woman enjoying her free speech.

Can you imagine being Frankie, caught between Betsy on one side and Lance on the other :shock:

tailwindhome

Dave_1 wrote:

I find his recent cursing re 2002 story written of in 2013 on Twitter and then his defiant message on Strava to be contradictory...one the 1 hand..telling us to move on and forget old news..and then being so defiant on his strava profile over exactly a decade ago..it's an insight into a more and more troubled mental state. I still won't be surprised if he eventually confesses. Comments like Bettini's must be thought provoking too. But if he can't get a deal on staying out of jail, I guess he won't confess for a long time yet. Wonder how his family life is...must be crap I guess...

I thought it was a odd statement he made that the Graham Watson article was 'balanced'.

I predict a similar article from Mr Liggett very soon.....

ocdupalais

Richmond Racer wrote:

Can you imagine being Frankie, caught between Betsy on one side and Lance on the other :shock:

Nick Fitt

Richmond Racer wrote:

Monty Dog wrote:

Nick Fitt wrote:

I suppose he will join Garmin? Retrospective 2 year ban etc

We need a joker emoticon for comments like this!

Maybe..maybe not...

It worked for Bertie, careful chaps, he is a scheming lil bastard and his lawyers are slick as shit on oil.

If he gets away with perjury, and the Italian investigation into money laundering etc doesnt name him :roll: then, he will salvage his tatters Im sure of it :evil: .

iainf72

Travis Tygart is saying that Lance offered USADA $250K in 2004 - They declined

He's going to be on 60 Minutes tomorrow

sherer

iainf72 wrote:

Travis Tygart is saying that Lance offered USADA $250K in 2004 - They declined

He's going to be on 60 Minutes tomorrow

very intersesting but begs the question why we had to wait from 2004 until now and surely this should have been in the reasoned decision. For Tygart to come out with this stuff now isn't right and will be used by the LA camp to twist things

thomthom

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ddraver

iainf72 wrote:

Travis Tygart is saying that Lance offered USADA $250K in 2004

As in stop investigating me and you ll get...?

iainf72

ddraver wrote:

iainf72 wrote:

Travis Tygart is saying that Lance offered USADA $250K in 2004

As in stop investigating me and you ll get...?

No. I don't think he'd ever do that. He'd give a donation but there would be no spoken conditions.

Ultimately, he can offer a donation and it can be turned down.

ddraver

Are yes, just checked twitter....

blazing_saddles

Story here:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-5 ... ng-agency/

Richmond Racer

Tsk, it was probably just a well-intended donation to be spent on some kind of testing machine to help them in the war against doping.

He's generous like that.

Yellow Peril

Just another attempt to buy grace and favour. Good job Fat Pat wasn't heading up the USADA

silverpigeon

Followed that CBS link and then found this? LAs lawyer denies that confession is imminent

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-400_162-57562227/atty-denies-report-lance-armstrong-will-admit-doping/

If he did though. It should look like this

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2013/01/06/bernstein-a-letter-from-lance-armstrong/

harrydaisy

ShinyHelmut wrote:

Betsy Andreu interview;

http://competitorradio.competitor.com/

this is good...

nic_77

Hope someone in the UK is up to enjoy this, or else I'm going to have to talk it through with Dennis...

It's happening!

http://www.oprah.com/pressroom/Lance-Ar ... xt-Chapter

thomthom

Can't wait for 60 minutes of live lying. Should be cracking entertaintment.

dave_1

Don't give up hope for a decent or even full confession yet. If he has been told no jail sentence for perjury re 2005 then he does not fear prison. And if he knows Qui Tam is going ahead and other arbitations are going ahead, he will see the inside of a court room again and be sent to jail for perjury for the lies...avoiding jail means admitting it now in some form.

thomthom

Lance is going to tell f'uck all. That I'm sure of.

IanLD

Hmmm... I'm not convinced he will open up much. Off work the next day, but don't think I'll bother watching.

Will wait and see what gets posted here

nic_77

The Oprah announcement has been timed to take the wind out of the 60minutes show's sails (on tomorrow night here featuring Travis and Betsy)... Oprah is now the big story, and you don't sit on her couch to talk about your retirement and latest holiday on the big Island...

dennisn

nic_77 wrote:

Hope someone in the UK is up to enjoy this, or else I'm going to have to talk it through with Dennis...

It's happening!

http://www.oprah.com/pressroom/Lance-Ar ... xt-Chapter

Oh no. Not Oprah. She's worse than he is with regard to attention grabbing, hero / heroine worship. I'm betting they will BOTH cry. So sad. Wonder how much she paid him for this? This is turning into the biggest media crock of sh*t ever. I can forgive all the doping, lies, deception, etc., etc., but to go on "Oprah". That's just wrong in so many ways. I have officially come over to this forums way of thinking. What a jerk. F*cking Oprah. Pitiful.

Turfle

Emotionally I don't know if I have it in me to search for an illegal Oprah stream.

Bakunin

On Oprah -- wow, someone is really feeling gravity's pull.

He'll give us a little ("everyone was doing it...I regret some things"), but this may be his only attempt to save the Livestrong brand. His fight against cancer is his only card.

To confess could unleash too much legal, financial, popular uncertainty.

DF33

The BBC news take on it

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20954810

Vino'sGhost

ratsbeyfus wrote:

I'm still alive... but I think there's a helicopter following me...

Vino'sGhost

so most important question of the day How do you watch Oprah in the UK?

Second question How come armstrong looks so good under all this stress?

third Will the Hog continue his appeal?

ahhhh not long till the classics