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Heartless?
No...I just find more hope and joy and all that other bullshit...from other riders that don't claim to be saints...
thats what really fucks me over to be honest...Lance tries to make out he's an angel.. ultraclean...teeth whiter than white....not a bully...just 'competetive'...when it's a load of shit...
He's a gobshite...if he was a nice guy...or at least honest...I could get it...Some sob story about him having cancer...
No...it's a none story...It takes away everything from every one else that ever survived some terrible ordeal and lived to carry on...
What is it you'd like...? tough breaks...?
Coppi's brother died three weeks before the tour...
Lemond got shot in the chest with a 12 bore?
Armstrong got cancer...was he able to afford the worlds best medical care? did they operate with a blunt spoon by the side of the road? no..
A million other stories like this surround the history of cycling....
So what...he got back up and carried on riding....thats what 'people' (moreover cyclists) do...even with a fractured hip and broken collarbone....
To be honest thats as far as my 'grudge' goes....
He doesn't get the magic star ...as he's a wanker...and claims to be a 'nice guy'...using a position of great influence and wealth to maintain that aura....simple really.
It's that sort of hypocrisy I can't stomach....