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

sherer

Did read that he had been motor pacing Teejay but as he has a lifetime ban I don't think he is allowed to do that

Bo Duke

I heard LA's applied to join Astana, 'My kinda team' he reportedly said. :shock:

frenchfighter

sherer wrote:

Did read that he had been motor pacing Teejay but as he has a lifetime ban I don't think he is allowed to do that

ic.

Bo Duke wrote:

I heard LA's applied to join Astana, 'My kinda team' he reportedly said. :shock:

Was there in the past of course.

deejay

frenchfighter wrote:

sherer wrote:

Did read that he had been motor pacing Teejay but as he has a lifetime ban I don't think he is allowed to do that

Much as I have laughed and then Rubbished him for 2 decades, I find that picture very SAD.
A so called "Celebrity" with pots of money cannot find much to do with his life but be a "Hanger On" and scratch around for something to do within his former sport.
Here he is with a rider of similar ability to his own and trying to improve his performance.

frenchfighter

Maybe he just loves his sport and wants to help out someone he likes. Give them a boost and some advice.

salsiccia1

frenchfighter wrote:

Maybe he just loves his sport and wants to help out someone he likes. Give them a boost and some advice.

That's how I saw it.

Paul 8v

I personally am not a fan of TJ but there's nothing wrong with Lance pacing him. Although he was doped up to his eyeballs, all the other an were too, the guy has still got a natural ability and has good tactical knowledge. If he had just done the drugs it would have been easier to forgive him, it's all the other stuff that is hard to forget.

dennisn

Paul 8v wrote:

I personally am not a fan of TJ but there's nothing wrong with Lance pacing him. Although he was doped up to his eyeballs, all the other an were too, the guy has still got a natural ability and has good tactical knowledge. If he had just done the drugs it would have been easier to forgive him, it's all the other stuff that is hard to forget.

Exactly what is this "..other stuff..." that you have let eat at you all these years? :?

deejay

dennisn wrote:

Paul 8v wrote:

I personally am not a fan of TJ but there's nothing wrong with Lance pacing him. Although he was doped up to his eyeballs, all the other an were too, the guy has still got a natural ability and has good tactical knowledge. If he had just done the drugs it would have been easier to forgive him, it's all the other stuff that is hard to forget.

Exactly what is this "..other stuff..." that you have let eat at you all these years? :?

Good Gawd.
With your Rose Tinted Glasses and you still don't know "What other Stuff" after all that has been placed on record.
Go figure but don't ask stupid questions.

bompington

dennisn wrote:

Paul 8v wrote:

I personally am not a fan of TJ but there's nothing wrong with Lance pacing him. Although he was doped up to his eyeballs, all the other an were too, the guy has still got a natural ability and has good tactical knowledge. If he had just done the drugs it would have been easier to forgive him, it's all the other stuff that is hard to forget.

Exactly what is this "..other stuff..." that you have let eat at you all these years? :?

Well, Dennis, you could always read through this thread and find out... get back to me when you've finished.

joelsim

deejay wrote:

dennisn wrote:

Paul 8v wrote:

I personally am not a fan of TJ but there's nothing wrong with Lance pacing him. Although he was doped up to his eyeballs, all the other an were too, the guy has still got a natural ability and has good tactical knowledge. If he had just done the drugs it would have been easier to forgive him, it's all the other stuff that is hard to forget.

Exactly what is this "..other stuff..." that you have let eat at you all these years? :?

Good Gawd.
With your Rose Tinted Glasses and you still don't know "What other Stuff" after all that has been placed on record.
Go figure but don't ask stupid questions.

It can all be summed up in one word dennisn - intimidation. Or if you want to expand on that, threatening.

lostboysaint

frenchfighter wrote:

Maybe he just loves his sport and wants to help out someone he likes. Give them a boost and some advice.

That!

You can't argue that he's passionate about the sport, just slightly deluded in the way he tried to make himself the leading man. It's very difficult to walk away from something that you're truly enthusiastic about.

dennisn

Just pulling your chains guys. :twisted: You're way too easy.

sherer

Read something on another form that it was all down to those nasty Europeans. LA was always the best I. The world he just had to dope to keep up with those nasty guys from Europe

frenchfighter

Landis with a potential (unlikely) $30m if they win. All eyes on the money for him then....

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/landis- ... lower-suit

jimmythecuckoo

all
as
bad
as
each
other...

the lot of them want banning for life. Plus a proper clear out of those currently in the sport who disgust me with their scant regard for rules and defend their cheating by blaming others.

dennisn

sherer wrote:

Read something on another form that it was all down to those nasty Europeans. LA was always the best I. The world he just had to dope to keep up with those nasty guys from Europe

Yeah. I heard that they twisted his arm to make him dope. IT WASN'T HIS FAULT.

In all truth, I'm thinking that people who have the desire, and some ability, to be on top of the heap will many times do whatever it takes and generally think pretty much nothing about it. Duh!!

Zerotails99

On the contrary, LA never shifted the blame on anyone else like his former team mates.

QuarterPounder

dennisn wrote:

sherer wrote:

Read something on another form that it was all down to those nasty Europeans. LA was always the best I. The world he just had to dope to keep up with those nasty guys from Europe

Yeah. I heard that they twisted his arm to make him dope. IT WASN'T HIS FAULT.

In all truth, I'm thinking that people who have the desire, and some ability, to be on top of the heap will many times do whatever it takes and generally think pretty much nothing about it. Duh!!

"We brought knives to a gun fight" is the line that always gets me.

deejay

Zerotails99 wrote:

On the contrary, LA never shifted the blame on anyone else like his former team mates.

Of course he didn't have to, as he paid his Body Guards and Minders to keep them quiet until they retired or he Sacked them. :roll:

dennisn

deejay wrote:

Zerotails99 wrote:

On the contrary, LA never shifted the blame on anyone else like his former team mates.

Of course he didn't have to, as he paid his Body Guards and Minders to keep them quiet until they retired or he Sacked them. :roll:

These "bodyguards and minders"? Were they sort of like mafia mob men? You know, big, ugly, scar faced, Italian hit man types? Or were they more like the Secret Service guarding the President? Guys that never smile and are always lurking in the background wearing suits and sunglasses?

pinno

Is this the old thread resurrection time of year?

dennisn

pinarello001 wrote:

Is this the old thread resurrection time of year?

Sure, why not? Not much else happening.

Paul 8v

Has anyone ever considered Dennis might actually BE Lance? He's not doing that much at the moment either...

No-one else cares that much about the whole thing!

the article don

What a stand up guy after all. He never cheats at golf, apparently

10 handicap is crap for someone claiming to play 250 times a year.

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2014/d ... en-cycling

andy_wrx

I think the answer is 'No'

Lance Armstrong has claimed that the public will forgive him for being the biggest drug cheat in the history of sport - just like they did Bill Clinton for his affair while in office.

The disgraced cyclist said that he saw the former President’s rehabilitation as a model for his own and that in a decade he will be back on top again.

With breathtaking arrogance, Armstrong said that Clinton was a ‘hero of mine’ and that he wanted to copy him and become ‘president of the world’.

He also denied being a bully - he was only ever ‘defiant’ - and bragged about having his own ‘constituency’ as if he were already on the campaign trail.

I did get this sh1te from the Daily Wail though (and 2013), so gawd knows whether it's true...

ddraver

Paul 8v wrote:

Has anyone ever considered Dennis might actually BE Lance? He's not doing that much at the moment either...

No-one else cares that much about the whole thing!

I don't think so. Dennis is just the classic jilted fanboi who's hoping we all forget about his constant defence of a cheat.

Contrast him to the guy in my bike club who says - not unfairly - that everyone of his real rivals was also doping and that Armstrong inspired him and "gave him the gift of cycling" who accepts that Armstrong cheated, but is not the anti-hero he has been painted as...

deejay

Zerotails99 wrote:

On the contrary, LA never shifted the blame on anyone else like his former team mates.

This guy and dennisn must have just got back from "Planet Armstrong" - as seen on Eurosport Television. :arrow:

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NervexProf

Another contemporary slant - http://www.theguardian.com/sport/100-to ... le-perfect