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Lance Armstrong

Absurdistan
Absurdistan Posts: 8,024
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Hold the back page, shock horror, Lance has admitted to being drugged up to win his 7 tours.
Arrogant sod.
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  • nth_london_addick
    nth_london_addick Posts: 35,919
    A sport tarnished with drug use and cheating Tactics and cheaters

    Don't think it will ever be clean and that every so often the leaders of this sport and it's alleged sporting genius will go through the medium of tv to admit being cheaters
  • AlexC
    AlexC Posts: 308
    He showed no emotion or remorse while admitting doping. Scumbag.
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,700
    Off to gaol for him I think.
  • Absurdistan
    Absurdistan Posts: 8,024
    I wonder how many footballers have used EPO?
  • BIG_ROB
    BIG_ROB Posts: 5,274
    Absurdistan said:

    I wonder how many footballers have used EPO?

    Still better than UPS!
  • Vincenzo
    Vincenzo Posts: 2,911
    nth london addick said:

    A sport tarnished with drug use and cheating Tactics and cheaters

    Don't think it will ever be clean and that every so often the leaders of this sport and it's alleged sporting genius will go through the medium of tv to admit being cheaters

    I wouldn't say that to Bradley Wiggins.
  • Chris_from_Sidcup
    Chris_from_Sidcup Posts: 36,068
    Claimed that he didn't take drugs after 2005. Of course not Lance!
  • Hartleypete
    Hartleypete Posts: 4,704
    The bloke was so matter of fact about it "like putting air into your tyres" yeah course it is, complete scumbag, no respect for him or his sport after that.
  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,658
    guinnessaddick said:

    Off to gaol for him I think.

    I wondered that, Is there anything he could be charged with?
  • Mendonca In Asdas
    Mendonca In Asdas Posts: 22,656
    Surely the sponsors are going to want their sponsorship money back?

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  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    I bet his Dad's turning in his grave. Was it Neil or Louis?
  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    Baldybonce said:

    guinnessaddick said:

    Off to gaol for him I think.


    I wondered that, Is there anything he could be charged with?
    Perjury?

  • charltonkeston
    charltonkeston Posts: 7,371
    Whilst I would agree he shouldn't have taken drugs, I dont think he should be singled out like he was the only one at it. He happened to be one of the best because of drugs. The sport might be cleaner now but back when he was "winning" the titles whole teams (eg.Festina) were getting caught taking drugs. It was the only way they could compete with each other, wrong buts thats it.
    Armstrong has fallen a lot further than anyone else. An idol to many.
    Battled cancer then helped raise a few bob to give other hope.
    Not a totally bad person,there are and were worse people on our planet.
  • colthe3rd
    colthe3rd Posts: 8,486
    nth london addick said:

    A sport tarnished with drug use and cheating Tactics and cheaters

    Cheating tactics?
  • Chris_from_Sidcup
    Chris_from_Sidcup Posts: 36,068
    Hartleypete said:

    The bloke was so matter of fact about it "like putting air into your tyres" yeah course it is, complete scumbag, no respect for him or his sport after that.


    Back then it probably was though, they were all at it. You only have to look at the podium finishers in the years he won it (who have since been caught) as proof of that.
  • loe.ldn.wpack
    loe.ldn.wpack Posts: 235
    charltonkeston said:

    Whilst I would agree he shouldn't have taken drugs, I dont think he should be singled out like he was the only one at it. He happened to be one of the best because of drugs. The sport might be cleaner now but back when he was "winning" the titles whole teams (eg.Festina) were getting caught taking drugs. It was the only way they could compete with each other, wrong buts thats it.
    Armstrong has fallen a lot further than anyone else. An idol to many.
    Battled cancer then helped raise a few bob to give other hope.
    Not a totally bad person,there are and were worse people on our planet.

    Hmmm he also bullied and blackmailed a huge number of fellow riders into doing the same.
  • dickplumb
    dickplumb Posts: 4,835
    Didn't Jimmy Saville raise a lot of money for Charity?It doesn't neccessarily make you a good person.Armstrong has lied and cheated and bullied his way through the sport.
    I feel sorry for the fellow competitors who were clean.
  • Hartleypete
    Hartleypete Posts: 4,704
    edited January 2013
    charltonkeston said:

    Whilst I would agree he shouldn't have taken drugs, I dont think he should be singled out like he was the only one at it. He happened to be one of the best because of drugs. The sport might be cleaner now but back when he was "winning" the titles whole teams (eg.Festina) were getting caught taking drugs. It was the only way they could compete with each other, wrong buts thats it.
    Armstrong has fallen a lot further than anyone else. An idol to many.
    Battled cancer then helped raise a few bob to give other hope.
    Not a totally bad person,there are and were worse people on our planet.

    Well in my book, he is a total scumbag, happy to see his fall from grace & hopefully he will loose all his ill gotten gains, no place for his sort in the world, just because everybody else in the sport was a scumbag does not mean you have to, he should have been better than that.

  • daveaddick
    daveaddick Posts: 1,926
    Frankly he is a cheating c**t and deserves to be airbrushed from the hsitory of the sport. What I find more sad is that after his battle with cancer he became a beacon for fellow sufferers when my best friend had cancer of the Kidney he told me that Lance Armstrongs book inspired him and helped him to get over the illness. So all that good stuff is now gone and what is left is actually a rather hollow, unpleasant human being.
  • Rizzo
    Rizzo Posts: 6,435
    dickplumb said:

    Didn't Jimmy Saville raise a lot of money for Charity?It doesn't neccessarily make you a good person.Armstrong has lied and cheated and bullied his way through the sport.
    I feel sorry for the fellow competitors who were clean.

    Good luck finding any of them. I'd suggest looking towards the bottom of the results table for the TdF as it looks like none of the guys at the top were clean.


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  • nolly
    nolly Posts: 12,122
    Proceeds of crime . Time to take that scum to the cleaners
  • Rizzo
    Rizzo Posts: 6,435
    nolly said:

    Proceeds of crime . Time to take that scum to the cleaners

    Was it actually a crime though? Against the rules of the sport certainly but might not actually be criminal.

  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,881
    He is just faking being sorry, and he is obviously not very contrite as he said - and I am paraphrasing here - ' I looked up the word cheat in the dictionary, and it said to gain an unfair advantage, so to me I am not a cheat, I was just levelling the playing field as everyone else was at it'

  • colthe3rd
    colthe3rd Posts: 8,486
    Rizzo said:

    nolly said:

    Proceeds of crime . Time to take that scum to the cleaners

    Was it actually a crime though? Against the rules of the sport certainly but might not actually be criminal.

    Perjury is
  • nolly
    nolly Posts: 12,122
    There were clean riders that's a cop out
  • lolwray
    lolwray Posts: 4,907
    I think there are some similarities with JS ...the sheer force of their egos personalities have probably made them both feel invincible and persuaded others not to expose them "if you lie for a long enough period you forget that it was even a lie in the first place" ....have always despised Armstrong and i am pleased he has been exposed for the cheat that he is

  • Stone
    Stone Posts: 3,026
    nolly said:

    There were clean riders that's a cop out

    You don't know that for certain.
  • Croydon
    Croydon Posts: 12,741
    Cycling is a sport riddled with drugs. Armstrong obviously found himself on the wrong side of the USADA and has therefore been named and shamed. US sport is fuelled by drugs, NFL players receive 4 week bans for drug offences. Carl Lewis failed a drug test pre olympic qualification and it was swept under the rug so that he could go and win gold. The drugs they use are so far ahead of the tests being administered that there is no fear of being caught,you just do what you have to do to be the best. Anyone who thinks that Armstrong was the only one at it, or that any professional sport is clean from drug 'cheats' is very naive
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,438
    Stone said:

    nolly said:

    There were clean riders that's a cop out

    You don't know that for certain.
    By the same rationale, no-one knows whether Wiggins, Cavendish et. al are clean either. What this prick has done is make it all the more likely that people will now look at ANY cyclist with suspicion.

  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    Leroy Ambrose said:

    Stone said:

    nolly said:

    There were clean riders that's a cop out

    You don't know that for certain.
    By the same rationale, no-one knows whether Wiggins, Cavendish et. al are clean either. What this prick has done is make it all the more likely that people will now look at ANY cyclist with suspicion.

    Especially the ones who jump red lights and go the wrong way down One Way Streets!

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