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Good for Anderson to back flip, to keep his head in the sand. All his comments, from SBS News, from the ABC interview to now, just a joke. You’ve been supporting the party line for years, heck, even as recently as months ago. If you’re going to continue that and make the same ‘everyone else was doing it’ comments then you have no respect from me unless you come out with a full apology that you knew what you were saying. You helped the Omerta ffs, the one that helped LA bully his peers and capitalise on.
Sorry but anyone that continues the myth deserve scorn. And anyone who keeps plugging their stupid Tours at the end of an article, deserves ridicule.
ANDERSON: Lance Armstrong - acceptance, but where to from here
Allan Davis was linked in Operation Puerto too. That is nothing new though. Would love for Stephens and White to come clean too, they must know some dark shit. On the subject of White, has the whole Trent Lowe story come out yet?
Lance Armstrong doping: 'Undeniable' evidence shown by USADA
Tell you what, I’ll give you the list of all the riders from the 199-2007 TDF and you can show me the proof of how everyone of those doped. Are you ready for it?
We were right to believe in Lance, weren't we?
Its mentioned in one of the affidavits that one of the cards he thinks he has it that he can “dob” the UCI for their doping tests not revealing the high human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) that would have been flagged if the tests were done properly or the UCI had done their duty of care. Of course you could say if he wasn’t doing HGH in the first place…
We were right to believe in Lance, weren't we?
Professional apologists? You know Dave Harmon, figurehead of British Eurosport is one of his biggest? He’s part of the ‘move on’ brigade. Well, when it suits it of course. (Fwiw, I want PnP out too)
We were right to believe in Lance, weren't we?
Phil has gone on record in an interview stating that he “asked” Lance to tell him if he was doping because he’s staked so much on Lance being clean and Armstrong told he didn’t dope so he believed it!
Liggett is currently in China atm, Best place to hide really, under the eye of Pat’s new best friends.
We were right to believe in Lance, weren't we?
Exactly. If there were any errors or holes in that document and evidence then Lance’s lawyer wouldn’t be coming out with just the same myths and lies they were spouting before it all came out.
We were right to believe in Lance, weren't we?
Obvious conclusion isn’t that they AREN’T doped any more, it’s that they are doping less and therefore in general the peloton is cleaner than before, not 100% clean.
We were right to believe in Lance, weren't we?
Haha, AA meetings take on a whole new meaning…
We were right to believe in Lance, weren't we?
This is a sensational depository of nearly all the information. Thank you!
USADA and Armstrong have questions to answer
Liestrong raised $500 million “to fight cancer”. $20mill of that went to Cancer Research. That’s 4% of all raised money. Imagine if people donated that to an actual charity, like the Cancer Council, instead of buying stupid yellow bands for the momentary feeling of smugness that they’re doing their bit.
USADA and Armstrong have questions to answer
Exactly, for UCI to contest this they have to go against WADA and the WADA code. Which is why they have been very quiet about this so far (except to try and get Sparks to throw out the case).
Armstrong: The good, the bad and the ugly
Most of the evidence is wrapped up in Witness testimony.
Given Lance’s mafia-rsque history of intimadation and villification of all who oppose him, I think USADA are more than valid in their grounds of withholding information for the moment to protect those who are witnesses (whom we do not know are, despite the supposed leaked names that were given to the media). There’s also 2 cases in the US Postal Conspiracy still to go to arbitration, Johan Bruyneel and Pedro Celaya. Evidence coming out before those cases are dealt with would no be fair to the defendants or the plantiff in those cases.
Don’t understand how a rejection to a fair trial is not an admission of guilt. It’s effectively saying lay whatever charges you want on me.
Is Armstrong plotting to take down the USADA?
Really? The Spanish Inquisition had independent arbitration hearings? They had US District Court Judges declare that everything is fair and legal?
It’s amusing, USADA are going through all the proper due processes to this, going through the proper channels, WADA, the Justic System etc.
Armstrong goes to the media.
Who is seen more positively by the public?
Is Armstrong plotting to take down the USADA?
I agree with the overall sentiments of this article but I disagree with this part:
“Cycling not only survived those dark years, it has gone on to prosper. All the current fiasco is doing is dredging up the past. Those who choose to focus on that, rather than the good things happening now, are living in the past.”
I think the only way that cycling can move forward, is by focusing on this, which yes was in the past, but all the people involved are still a part of cycling, one way or the other. The message this sends out, that no matter how big you are, you can and will get caught if you did the crime, is more important than anything in cycling. The pro-peloton is also clearly scared and still wary of the influence of Lance. If the chains there can be broken, that will lead to a better future, the one everyone is saying we should be focusing on. Tygart and USADA do want the same thing as us, as hard as that is for some to grasp.
Cycling's impending demise exaggerated
It’s a pity there are so few articles centered around facts like this, it really does need to see more light
Is Armstrong plotting to take down the USADA?
A long way from showing his potential?
That is a bit rich considering what he’s done so far. If he was anonymous for the whole Vuelta like at the start then you could make that claim but not now. Showing potential for the GC isn’t just about where you are placed or what you do on every stage, it’s about showing what you can do now. Many riders who end up as GC riders start their time as domestiques or stage hunters, there is nothing new here.
If Cam Meyer did nothing else this Vuelta, his performance on Stage 8 did more to prove that he actually has potential to be something in the future than anything he’s done in the past. He actually showed climbing ability in a Grand Tour and for me, that is fantastic. That breakaway and the fact he’s placed himself in two other breaks IS a result. Looking solely at the stage results will never tell you the whole story, and is a far too cynical way of passing judgement.
Now for next year he has to build on what’s he’s achieved but the start is there. It is something that Jack Bobridge will have to try and achieve next year as well.
Actually out of your whole article I probably most disagree most vehemently with this:
“For all his promise, Meyer still has no solid results to show for his efforts. Friday’s third place was admirable, but on paper you would expect Meyer to beat a rider like Cummings, especially given the Brit’s injury concerns this year (he broke his pelvis in February). ”
On paper? Are you actually serious. Go have a look at the extensive palmares of Juan Antonio Flecha. Cast your mind back a few months to the Giro, who won on that “small” stage up the Stelvio? Thomas De Gendt. Linus Gerdermann, winner of week-long stage races (oh funny that, 2 actual GC riders in a break as well, fancy that). Go have a look at what sort of rider Elia Viviani is, for if the escapees had stayed together. Cam Meyer as the best rider on paper out of all that? This is a completely made up, nationalistic biased tripe. As I’m sure you well know too, when a breakaway succeeds its usually the best rider on the day (tactically, physically and fortune) who wins. Not just what looks good on paper, or how injured a rider has been in the past. I for one am very pleased for Steve Cummings.
Close but no cigar for Meyer in the Vuelta
It’s not as good as the other live site they had going. Bit of a bomb if you ask me.
Live: 2012 Tour de France - Stage 9 - Individual Time Trial
You’ve got the 2nd intermediate times!
Times are the finish at the moment are:
1) Tony Martin 53’40”
2) Liuwe Westra 54’09” (+29)
3) Gustav Larsson 54’19” (+39)
Live: 2012 Tour de France - Stage 9 - Individual Time Trial
I don’t think so, from that bunch of 50 or so riders there is no way Sagan doesn’t out-sprint them all, the only exception being EBH, who marked the moved with him anyway. They made the right call too, snap decision to follow Cance or stay in the bunch and the right call was made.
Tour de France Diary, Stage One: Sagan victorious in Seraing
The dude can win everything in cycling apart from mountain top finishes, long time trials and Grand Tours. He’s the most complete rider I have seen with my own eyes (>2002)
Tour de France Diary, Stage One: Sagan victorious in Seraing
super finish, thanks for doing the coverage! 🙂
Live: 2012 Tour de France - Stage 1 - Liege to Seraing
Yes! You have some of the sprinters who will think they have a chance, then there’s the GC guys not wanting to lose time and combine that with the guys who fancy themselves for the stage! Plenty of racing machinations to look out for.
Live: 2012 Tour de France - Stage 1 - Liege to Seraing
Chin up, enjoying the cycling even if you can’t enjoy the riders. Cheating happens in every sport, Cycling deserves to be done through the ringer because of what happens but these things take time to come out. Just don’t have any delusions about any other sport you enjoy in life, heck even the capitalistic model of business in Western democracy supports cheating when you think about how much the banks and CEOs are getting away with…
ANDERSON: Lance Armstrong - acceptance, but where to from here