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  • Rizzo
    Rizzo Posts: 6,435

    It's a shame that it can never be proved that he might have won without drugs.

    It almost has been. Looking at some of the earlier posts it seems that pretty much every rider in the top 5 of the TdF in all the years that Armstrong won was on drugs. If we assume that LA was indeed also on drugs then it seems he was still the best cyclist. Either that or his drugs were better.

  • DA9
    DA9 Posts: 11,091
    edited October 2012

    It's sickening how LA used the Cancer charity as a shield, in a similar manner to Jimmy Saville with his charity work.....made them nigh on untouchable.

    Yes, but Armstrong allegedly cheated at a sport, Saville allegedly abused kids.

    Armstrong, if guilty, has damaged his and his sports image, no real harm done in the scheme of things, Saville has allegedly damaged lifes, very different.
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,156
    cafc_joe said:

    I am gutted by this news. They have been on his case for so long. Anyone would get tired of the same accusations over and over, when you have undergone more drug tests than anyone other sportsman in the history of sport. The tactics are very shady- offering 'incentives' to competitors to come forward to testify against him. There is no concrete evidence of any wrong-doing, but there must come a point when you can't take it all anymore (legal costs/ emotional impact etc). They have been out to get him and it looks like they have got what they wanted.

    I expect you think Michael Jackson was a nice bloke too...
  • maybe_baby
    maybe_baby Posts: 2,609
    I've now seen the earlier post...Hmmm, as they were all taking drugs just say he was brilliant in the drug era.
  • DA9
    DA9 Posts: 11,091

    cafc_joe said:

    I am gutted by this news. They have been on his case for so long. Anyone would get tired of the same accusations over and over, when you have undergone more drug tests than anyone other sportsman in the history of sport. The tactics are very shady- offering 'incentives' to competitors to come forward to testify against him. There is no concrete evidence of any wrong-doing, but there must come a point when you can't take it all anymore (legal costs/ emotional impact etc). They have been out to get him and it looks like they have got what they wanted.

    I expect you think Michael Jackson was a nice bloke too...
    11 former colleagues have testified against him, pretty damning evidence.

  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,156
    DA9 said:

    cafc_joe said:

    I am gutted by this news. They have been on his case for so long. Anyone would get tired of the same accusations over and over, when you have undergone more drug tests than anyone other sportsman in the history of sport. The tactics are very shady- offering 'incentives' to competitors to come forward to testify against him. There is no concrete evidence of any wrong-doing, but there must come a point when you can't take it all anymore (legal costs/ emotional impact etc). They have been out to get him and it looks like they have got what they wanted.

    I expect you think Michael Jackson was a nice bloke too...
    11 former colleagues have testified against him, pretty damning evidence.

    Exactly.

  • cafc_joe
    cafc_joe Posts: 214
    I expect you think Michael Jackson was a nice bloke too...

    ????

    Not too sure what you're saying there, but I've totally missed that metaphor.

  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,661
    Wouldn't it be easier just to try and find a road cyclist who hasn't taken drugs?
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,156
    cafc_joe said:

    I expect you think Michael Jackson was a nice bloke too...

    ????

    Not too sure what you're saying there, but I've totally missed that metaphor.



    You seem to be denying the facts, like Michael Jackson fans do. Apologies if I misunderstand your sentiments.

  • JohnBoyUK
    JohnBoyUK Posts: 9,021
    LenGlover said:

    Wouldn't it be easier just to try and find a road cyclist who hasn't taken drugs?

    Christ, even I dont count as I'm on asthma steroids :-(

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  • cafc_joe
    cafc_joe Posts: 214

    cafc_joe said:

    I expect you think Michael Jackson was a nice bloke too...
    ????

    Not too sure what you're saying there, but I've totally missed that metaphor.



    You seem to be denying the facts, like Michael Jackson fans do. Apologies if I misunderstand your sentiments.



    Well, I stand to be corrected. I am a believer in innocent until proven guilty, but I think that the boat has now sailed on that one.
  • Michael Jackson, the worlds most loved paedophile
  • falconwood_1
    falconwood_1 Posts: 7,368
    DA9 said:

    It's sickening how LA used the Cancer charity as a shield, in a similar manner to Jimmy Saville with his charity work.....made them nigh on untouchable.

    Yes, but Armstrong allegedly cheated at a sport, Saville allegedly abused kids.

    Armstrong, if guilty, has damaged his and his sports image, no real harm done in the scheme of things, Saville has allegedly damaged lifes, very different.
    Armstrong is guilty and has ruined lives, not like Mad Jimmy granted but the analogy of hiding behind charity too avoid any investigation is similar.

    People who don't believe he hasn't doped are the same who think the world is flat.
  • Curb_It
    Curb_It Posts: 21,229

    cafc_joe said:

    I am gutted by this news. They have been on his case for so long. Anyone would get tired of the same accusations over and over, when you have undergone more drug tests than anyone other sportsman in the history of sport. The tactics are very shady- offering 'incentives' to competitors to come forward to testify against him. There is no concrete evidence of any wrong-doing, but there must come a point when you can't take it all anymore (legal costs/ emotional impact etc). They have been out to get him and it looks like they have got what they wanted.

    I expect you think Michael Jackson was a nice bloke too...
    He did write that back in August tho.
  • cafc_joe
    cafc_joe Posts: 214
    Curb_It said:

    cafc_joe said:

    I am gutted by this news. They have been on his case for so long. Anyone would get tired of the same accusations over and over, when you have undergone more drug tests than anyone other sportsman in the history of sport. The tactics are very shady- offering 'incentives' to competitors to come forward to testify against him. There is no concrete evidence of any wrong-doing, but there must come a point when you can't take it all anymore (legal costs/ emotional impact etc). They have been out to get him and it looks like they have got what they wanted.

    I expect you think Michael Jackson was a nice bloke too...
    He did write that back in August tho.
    Who did?
  • Curb_It
    Curb_It Posts: 21,229
    You did!
  • cafc_joe
    cafc_joe Posts: 214
    Curb_It said:

    You did!

    Yeah of course I did. Bellend.
  • Curb_It
    Curb_It Posts: 21,229
    oh dear. i was trying to be nice.
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,009
    cafc_joe said:

    Curb_It said:

    You did!

    Yeah of course I did. Bellend.
    grow up
  • cafc_joe
    cafc_joe Posts: 214
    Curb_It said:

    oh dear. i was trying to be nice.

    Totally misread your post there. Sorry mate.
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  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,156
    Curb_It said:

    cafc_joe said:

    I am gutted by this news. They have been on his case for so long. Anyone would get tired of the same accusations over and over, when you have undergone more drug tests than anyone other sportsman in the history of sport. The tactics are very shady- offering 'incentives' to competitors to come forward to testify against him. There is no concrete evidence of any wrong-doing, but there must come a point when you can't take it all anymore (legal costs/ emotional impact etc). They have been out to get him and it looks like they have got what they wanted.

    I expect you think Michael Jackson was a nice bloke too...
    He did write that back in August tho.
    Yes, I didn't pick up on that until after I had written it actually Curb it.
  • Curb_It
    Curb_It Posts: 21,229
    edited October 2012
    cafc_joe said:

    Curb_It said:

    oh dear. i was trying to be nice.

    Totally misread your post there. Sorry mate.
    That's okay, I realised. Its when it only quotes parts of the previous quotes that causes it... I think.



  • cafc_joe
    cafc_joe Posts: 214
    Yeah, sorry mate. Ignore all of my previous comments.
  • JohnBoyUK
    JohnBoyUK Posts: 9,021
    Ahead of his "confession" this coming Friday on Oprah at 2am and his apology to his Livestrong staff yesterday, I decided to have a read of Tyler Hamilton's book, "The Secret Race" over the last week or so. For those that dont know Hamilton, he was one of Armstrong's team mates at US Postal. Christ almighty, wish I'd read this book sooner. I wont spoil it for those of you that may want to read it but it really does spell out the lengths to which they went to cheat. Unbelievable.
  • ColinTat
    ColinTat Posts: 2,794
    It was pretty much all out there. All the talk of Mr Moto, blood bags being thrown down a loo to impede Floyd's progress, the pressure to dope from the team were in a text conversation with Vaughters and Andreu: Came out of the Tailwind Sports case. The doctor who left the Montgomery Bell team, when most of the riders came to him - including Tyler - to ask to be put on what the Europeans were taking. Shame the majority of Lance Armstrong fans and Tyler fans, claimed this huge body of evidence was a hatchet job and hearsay.
  • Interesting summary here:

    bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19912623