Lance Armstrong gets life ban,loses 7 TDF,confesses he doped
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LOL @ Dodgy - don't even look at the tree, it will suck you in!!!
Ah, happy days watching people fall off bikes onto sharp broken slate
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nic_77 wrote:
Thanks for the offer... but I am a Brit living in NC!Richmond Racer wrote:nic_77 wrote:So how is the news going down in the US this morning...?
All of the US breakfast sports shows are leading with the 'Armstrong confesses' story.
I followed the ESPN Mike and Mike show for a bit - the two anchors clearly know next to nothing about cycling, and started off on a "so he cheated, at least he admitted it and what a lot of good work he's done" tack. My guess is that they started to get a fair bit of heat from twitter etc, or their researchers started doing some work, because they then started working up the "he's a bully, and we don't bully people, do we kids" line.
Nonetheless, I can see it already... Armstrong is going to get redemption here. There'll be an interview tour, public appearances, a book, more charity work, run / ride with Armstrong... he'll be a hero again.
*chunders*
Feel free to come and live over here, nic - as you can see, we are generally suitably cycnical, tend to look for motives, and far less inclined to fall for this redemption bs
I can always turn the TV off and head outside for a bike ride. Did I mention it was 25 degrees here at the weekend?
</your sympathy>
Ha! How does your Brit cynicism go down with your US mates/colleagues etc?
and I'm trying to ignore the bit about the weather0 -
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/cy ... w/1835349/
"Winfrey says interview was "intense" and "difficult" for Armstrong, but he delivered the answers she thinks people hoped to hear."
In a few clips shown briefly from the interview done in Armstrong's hometown of Austin, Texas, Armstrong looked nervous. Winfrey and Armstrong sat simply in chairs, facing one another, glasses of water with straws sitting on a small table for each. As Armstrong enters the interview area, Winfrey gets up to greet him.
Winfrey, wearing a bright lime-colored dress Tuesday, spoke from the set of Harpo studios in Chicago to the CBS anchors in New York about what she considers her "biggest" interview.
She told CBS she got to ask most of her "112" questions. "I would say he did not come clean in the manner I expected," Winfrey said. "It was surprising to me ... for myself, my team, all of us in the room, We were mesmerized and riveted by some of his answers."
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I work from home on my own... so my colleagues are generally spared my thoughts!Richmond Racer wrote:Ha! How does your Brit cynicism go down with your US mates/colleagues etc?
and I'm trying to ignore the bit about the weather
And my US mates have never seen a bike race... and I'm generally not inclined to open up either of the cancer research vs cancer awareness and livestrong.com vs livestrong.org debates!0 -
I'm guessing the people on this forum might not be her typical people, I guess we'll have to wait and see. Did I mention that all that matters to me is family, country and the fight against cancer.skylla wrote:http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/cycling/2013/01/15/lance-armstrong-oprah-winfrey-network-interview/1835349/
"Winfrey says interview was "intense" and "difficult" for Armstrong, but he delivered the answers she thinks people hoped to hear."0 -
dougzz wrote:
I'm guessing the people on this forum might not be her typical people, I guess we'll have to wait and see. Did I mention that all that matters to me is family, country and the fight against cancer.skylla wrote:http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/cycling/2013/01/15/lance-armstrong-oprah-winfrey-network-interview/1835349/
"Winfrey says interview was "intense" and "difficult" for Armstrong, but he delivered the answers she thinks people hoped to hear."
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Not for him. Although if this doesn't work then his last resort might be to find Jesus and bring him in to his life.0
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The interview was moved to a hotel in Austin after the original plan to film at his house had to be changed because news crews had staked it out. Winfrey told CBS she "hand-carried" the interview tapes "in my bag with dog food" and revealed that during a break in filming Armstrong asked: "Will there be a point where you lighten up?"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2013/ja ... lean-oprah
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dougzz wrote:Not for him. Although if this doesn't work then his last resort might be to find Jesus and bring him in to his life.
Jesus Manzano?0 -
Personally, I don't know which of his habits disgusts me more:
http://www.casasugar.com/News-Lance-Arm ... ng-1875951
I also figured out how to post pics:
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"....glasses of water with straws sitting on a small table for each."
Subsequently analysed I hope? Or is "straws" a slang expression?
If it were just the doping, then simply amusing (none but the naive ever assumed anything else), but LA's bullying and self-righteous abuse of others demands that he lose everything.d.j.
"Cancel my subscription to the resurrection."0 -
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So, sounds like he's planning to throw Pat, the Hog, Hein and Thom Weisel and the other Tailwind backers under the bus? Guess he feels that if he's going down in flames, he may as well take the UCI and USCF with him too?Make mine an Italian, with Campagnolo on the side..0
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GET THAT PIC OFF MY SCREEN
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Monty Dog wrote:So, sounds like he's planning to throw Pat, the Hog, Hein and Thom Weisel and the other Tailwind backers under the bus? Guess he feels that if he's going down in flames, he may as well take the UCI and USCF with him too?
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skylla wrote:http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/cycling/2013/01/15/lance-armstrong-oprah-winfrey-network-interview/1835349/
"Winfrey says interview was "intense" and "difficult" for Armstrong, but he delivered the answers she thinks people hoped to hear."
In a few clips shown briefly from the interview done in Armstrong's hometown of Austin, Texas, Armstrong looked nervous. Winfrey and Armstrong sat simply in chairs, facing one another, glasses of water with straws sitting on a small table for each. As Armstrong enters the interview area, Winfrey gets up to greet him.
Winfrey, wearing a bright lime-colored dress Tuesday, spoke from the set of Harpo studios in Chicago to the CBS anchors in New York about what she considers her "biggest" interview.
She told CBS she got to ask most of her "112" questions. "I would say he did not come clean in the manner I expected," Winfrey said. "It was surprising to me ... for myself, my team, all of us in the room, We were mesmerized and riveted by some of his answers."
I'm really liking all the little "leaks" that are coming out prior to the actual interview being shown. Those two are working this to perfection and ratings may never be higher for either. Ahhhh, showbiz.0 -
meagain wrote:"....glasses of water with straws sitting on a small table for each."
Subsequently analysed I hope? Or is "straws" a slang expression?
Straw is acceptable. Do you think that the straws, both perfectly bent and pointing at OW & LA, is of any significance?
i.e. subliminal something or other?
Also, the black box on LA's side, the gold platter on OW's right, and the three bottles of whatever in the middle?
Significance or coincidence?
What's in those bottles? More to the point what's in the black box? If anything.0 -
dennisn wrote:
Also, the black box on LA's side, the gold platter on OW's right, and the three bottles of whatever in the middle?
Significance or coincidence?
What's in those bottles? More to the point what's in the black box? If anything.
I strongly suspect they were just there in the hotel room when they got there
Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.0 -
I like the style of whoever thought it a neat idea to put a big yellow bottle in the middle of the table, chapeau0
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I think the black box contains a portable centrifuge. Not sure about the bottles though. You could store a lot of HGH in there. Incidentally, I wouldn't be that surprised to learn that Oprah is on HGH - they're quite big on anti-ageing in the states...<a><img></a>0
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom0
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Brian Cookson getting interviewed on Sky News in 20mins @ 5.30 if anyone's interested !!!0
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Gazzetta67 wrote:Brian Cookson getting interviewed on Sky News in 20mins @ 5.30 if anyone's interested !!!
Cant see it where I am now - give us a summary afterwards? 0 -
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Richmond Racer wrote:Gazzetta67 wrote:Brian Cookson getting interviewed on Sky News in 20mins @ 5.30 if anyone's interested !!!
Cant see it where I am now - give us a summary afterwards?
Do you want the whole truth or nothing about the truth or will i ask my lawyers 8)0
