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

I love Vaughter's 'white lines' story.

Joke doesn't work, centre lines are usually yellow in the USA

shit

There I was wondering why he hadn't used that as title of the piece.

http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2012/10/16/lance-armstrong-finds-drug-that-fools-lie-detectors-takes-lie-detector-test/

Cycling Australia sacks Matt White and says UCI were complacent and need to act on USADA file.

Good comments from Taylor Phinney.

Y'all need to read up on the plea of nolo contendere

This is something to do with contaminated meat, right?

I'd never heard of a finish bottle till that Phinney interview.

There is widespread use of finish bottles, which are just bottles of crushed up caffeine pills and painkillers. That stuff can make you pretty loopy, and that is why I have never tried it.

They sound disgusting.

where is the Phinney interview? The R5 programme? I was driving errands so dropped in and out and must have missed his segment.

http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/13076/Taylor-Phinney-Interview-Getting-the-pill-culture-out-of-the-sport.aspx

What is Phinney's username... must give rep.

reports saying that armstrong is stepping down as chairman of LiveStrong

http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory/armstrong-stepping-livestrong-chairman-17498126

AP confim
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Lance Armstrong stepping down as chairman of his Livestrong cancer-fighting charity.

Armstrong, who was not paid a salary as chairman of the Lance Armstrong Foundation, will remain on its 15-member board. His duties leading the board will be turned over to vice chairman Jeff Garvey, who was founding chairman in 1997.

Not gone....just got his hand up someone eases arse

Nike have apparently terminated Armstrong's contract.

Oh dear.

Statement from Nike on terminating Lance Armstrong's contract: “Due to the seemingly insurmountable evidence that Lance Armstrong participated in doping and misled Nike for more than a decade, it is with great sadness that we have terminated our contract with him. Nike does not condone the use of illegal performance enhancing drugs in any manner. Nike plans to continue support of the Livestrong initiatives created to unite, inspire and empower people affected by cancer.”

Yet elsewhere is the suggestion that Nike was actively complicit in his doping, or at least in covering it up.

Cycling: Nike deny $500,000 Lance Armstrong cover-up payment

"In response to the offensive allegations in today's New York Daily News, Nike vehemently denies that it paid former UCI president Hein Verbruggen $500,000 to cover up a positive drug test," the statement read. "Nike does not condone the use of illegal performance enhancing drugs."

(The NY Daily News article.)

Sounds like he is clearing the decks to confess.

Never.

I suspect his stepping down from Livestrong is a condition of Nike's continued support for it.

I can't envisage him doing the tearful press conference bit, followed by redemption and possibly finding 'Gaaard'.

If I was him my mitigation strategy would be along the lines of:

• Sign over all my assets to Livestrong
  
• Write a tell-all auto-biography selling the rights for multi-million dollars and handing over the IP and advance to Livestrong. Try and blame it all on someone else in the book.
  
• Dedicate myself solely to anti-cancer campaign, where my few remaining supporters are.
  
  

I know that opens him to lawsuits and perjury charges, but lets be honest, he is facing those anyway.

I was in Niketown yesterday and noticed the bike that has been there for years had gone.

Nick Clegg has been seen meeting with him.

I was in Niketown yesterday and noticed the bike that has been there for years had gone.

Already on Gumtree?

Merch