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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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 Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 5:27 pm Post subject: Where is the annual 'Bash Lance Armstrong' Thread? |
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| I get uncomfortable when normally predictable things go awry. Will the appropriate people please return to their normal pattern? |
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coldcrush
Joined: 02 Apr 2004
Location: melbourne.... Posts: 1
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| Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 5:55 pm Post subject: Re: Where is the annual 'Bash Lance Armstrong' Thread? |
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| Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
| I get uncomfortable when normally predictable things go awry. Will the appropriate people please return to their normal pattern? |
look in the trash can, it'll be next to the syringes and the dried scrote. |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 6:35 pm Post subject: |
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As far as I know:
He's not leading the race this year
and he's under suspicion for using steroids.
So maybe people just don't care so much around here.
(By the way, I've never commented on him ever before, as I don't follow bike racing, even the Tour de France. I only know of him through the media attention given to his victories after coming back from cancer or something like that. Anyways, he seems like yesterday's news. Maybe that's why there hasn't been a thread about him this year. I dunno.)
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 6:38 pm Post subject: |
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Or maybe the bashers realized that someone who has won maybe the toughest athletic event in the world 6 years running is pretty decent afterall.
Although, he seems to have sold his soul to Discovery Channel. He's all over it these days. Cashing in before retirement, I guess. |
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Grotto
Joined: 21 Mar 2004
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| Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 7:12 pm Post subject: |
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| That is a pretty funny commercial with Lance and the guys from OCC. |
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kprrok
Joined: 06 Apr 2004
Location: KC
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| Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 7:15 pm Post subject: |
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| VanIslander wrote: |
He's not leading the race this year
and he's under suspicion for using steroids.
So maybe people just don't care so much around here. |
He is leading this year's race. And he was given a perfectly clean sheet the day before the tour started.
So maybe it's just that people have decided that they're not going to comment on things they know nothing about. Like you should!
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 7:31 pm Post subject: |
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| kprrok wrote: |
He is leading this year's race. And he was given a perfectly clean sheet the day before the tour started.
So maybe it's just that people have decided that they're not going to comment on things they know nothing about. Like you should!
KPRROK |
I had offhand read on a CBC website news report that he finished 41st in stage 12. 41st. The story was about the guy who won the stage and they never mentioned the overall lead.
As for the "perfectly clean sheet", I just recall the general news reports of several drug allegations over the years.
Here's just one:
http://www.velonews.com/news/fea/7774.0.html
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...a former personal assistant that he found a steroid in Armstrong's Spanish apartment early last year...he had a key to Armstrong's apartment in Girona, Spain, and was cleaning the bathroom in "early 2004" when he found a white box labeled "like any other prescription drug" but that did not have a doctor's prescription attached.
Written on the box was the trademark name "Androstenine, or something very close to this," Anderson said.
"He went to the computer, looked it up on the WADA or USADA Web site(s), and confirmed that what he had found was an androgen, a listed banned substance," Anderson's court brief states, referring to the World Anti-Doping Agency and the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency.
Anderson said he put the box in the medicine cabinet where he found it. He said he did not confront Armstrong because he was worried he would be fired. He said he looked for the box again after Armstrong left Girona to train in the Canary Islands, but didn't find it.
"I had a job to do, that's why I kept my mouth shut," Anderson said. "I tried for a very long time to give him the benefit of the doubt. I waited for months to even tell my wife."
Anderson said it was the only time he found the alleged substance and that he never saw Armstrong take any steroids or other banned substances.
Anderson also said he and Armstrong had a discussion in 2004 about cyclists who dope and claimed Armstrong told him, "Everyone does it." |
And Lance Armstrong has been charged... just not convicted.
Whatever. I don't care personally. Certainly don't mean to cause any offence.
I'll leave this thread to others.
G'day. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Thanks guys. This little piece of my world just clicked back into place and I feel much better now. |
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Badmojo
Joined: 07 Mar 2004
Location: I'm just sitting here watching the wheels go round and round
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| Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 4:13 am Post subject: |
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| The guy is on juice.... everybody knows that. He just has the cash to buy the masking agents. With enough money, a guy on steroids could pass any drug test thrown at him. |
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The Man known as The Man
Joined: 29 Mar 2003
Location: 3 cheers for Ted Haggard oh yeah!
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