Lance Armstrong... greatest doper there was or ever will be

I'm currently can't decide if I'm amused or annoyed by BBC news continually calling him the seven-times winner of the TdF. Eg "the second half of Opera Winfrey's interview with the seven times winner of the Tour de France will be broadcast tonight"

Not sure they're allowed to say lying, cheating cunt... But at least we know what it means.

Will he really show USADA where the graves are just to compete in some proxy triathlons?

I think you mean poxy?

And yes, he's that much of a competitive animal that I think he's prepared to do what it takes so he can measure himself against others in competition again. Why shouldn't he throw Verbruggen and McQuaid to the wolves anyway, they were swift to condemn him when they needed to.

^^ oh, I wasn't saying Big Mig wasn't doped. just agreeing with Bill about the different way he approached the climbs.
the thing is i am still pissed at the Spanish for robbing Millar the Vuelta in 85. I still believe he should of one that stage in 93.

Of all the Armstrong guff in the press, David Walsh talking about Sestriere in 99 Tour is priceless, when the press corp were watching the stage & Armstrong takes off, everyone in the room just starts laughing. Sums it up really!

Hmmm - will put that down to auto correct.

Screamingly uninformed phone-in on 5Live about LA right now.

anyone got a working part 2 link?

http://www.oprah.com/own_tv/onc/lance-armstrong-one.html

The comments are worth reading

LANCE ARMSTRONG & THE DOPING SCANDAL WAS NEVER ABOUT LANCE ARMSTRONG; HE IS ONLY A TOOL IN GODS HANDS. Lance Armstrong was too good to die of cancer. He only thought he was in control of everything that happened in his life. God uses high profile people for His own purposes. Only OPRAH was big enough to handle such a delicate tool to deliver such a powerful message that is sure to ignite untold changes in the biking world and set many people free. I suspect in Lance's case, to shine a light on a much needed area in the biking world.

I wish God would use me for his own purposes. I bet he's a right randy bugger that God.

LANCE ARMSTRONG; HE IS ONLY A TOOL

Edited for concision

OPRAH was big enough to ignite and shine a light on the world.

Like the Sun. Yo mama so fat she creates sufficient internal gravitational pressure to initiate nuclear fusion.

"I didn't call you fat"

This was the highlight.

Bellend

I can't believe everyone is letting him get away with riding with only one nut. That's half the ache of the rest of the peloton

Performance enhancing plums

Also, you guys all watch Oprah lol

Performance enhancing plums

So that's what his pep talks were all about.

Will he really show USADA where the graves are just to compete in some proxy triathlons?

This is what I don't get tbh. He blates has his eyes on the TdF too IMO.

Also, you guys all watch Oprah lol

For how many people must it have been a first to watch it on a non-weekday pulling a work sickie?

Paul Kimmage not looking for an apology then

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2013/jan/19/lance-armstrong-cycling

In the autumn of 1993, Greg LeMond and his wife, Kathy, were sitting at home in the suburbs of Minneapolis, when they received a visit from Linda Mooneyham, the three-times Tour de France winner has recalled. Her 21-year-old son, Lance Armstrong, had just become the world champion and she had travelled from her home in Texas for advice.

"What does he do now?" she asked. "What does he do with his money?"

"Well, let him find an agent – a good one with an attorney," LeMond replied. "And one word of advice – just be his mom."

They sat on the porch for a while and then moved inside to the kitchen. Linda had something else on her mind: "How do I make him less of an asshole. He doesn't care about anyone."

"Well," LeMond replied. "I can't help you there."

in a Sydney library:

Watching the interview right now. Am I the only one who thinks "this is actually pretty boring"?

in a Sydney library:

Hahahaha - best response I have seen so far.

That smiley is completely inappropriate. :|

Andrea Peron's point of view takes some beating:

Meanwhile, Armstrong’s former Motorola teammate Andrea Peron claimed that the American was clean when they rode together in 1995 and 1996. “That team wasn’t US Postal, the change happened there,” Peron insisted, a contention which jars with the fact that Armstrong has admitted to doping before his diagnosis with cancer in 1996.

** “The guy I knew was a phenomenon who didn’t need to dope,” Peron continued. “Without [doping] maybe he wouldn’t have won seven Tours, but two or three certainly.”**

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/pressures-of-american-dream-weighed-on-armstrong-claims-savoldelli

Aha.