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Bye week buh bye Rex
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I must be one of the few people who don't care about Lance Armstrong or what he has to say. I care even less about athletes using steroids/PEDs.
I will never understand why people feel they need apologies from these athletes. They don't owe us anything. If he wants to stick a needle in his @ss so he can ride his bike real fast then God bless him. It cost him his balls, that is a steep enough price for me. |
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Snubbed a man just to watch him cry.
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If I was him, when the initial allegations came out from his fellow cyclists, I would have copped to it, adding "you guys used too, and I still whipped your asses." This is akin to a bodybuilder accusing another competitor of using PEDs, it's just that widespread in the sport. |
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Snubbed a man just to watch him cry.
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RIP JF XXI Forever!
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I don't really give a crap about cycling (although in its heydey I watched a Tour or two here and there) but what really bothers me about this guy is not just that he cheated, its the moral outrage and holier than thou stance he had in the face of overwhelming evidence both from testimony of others and hard evidence. He had 2/3 of the US convinced that this was just another situation of the French, and other Euros trying to bring the Good ol US of A down. He essentially played to those prejudices and built up a huge movement on a downright fraudulent effort. He raised 100s of millions of dollars (a good thing) as a hero because he accomplished what seemed to be impossible after conquering cancer. Of course, any quick review of what he did would demonstrate that it was in fact impossible - there is no way a clean racer could dominate in the fashion he did. Now, everyone who is wearing one of those yellow bracelets, those people who for the past 5 years probably believed Armstrong's protestations in the face of the evidence and logic, will finally take off it off in embarassment and wonder why they latched on to and spent so much time invested in a hypocritcal, self-righteous fraud. I don't begrudge anyone who dopes in sports. Everyone has their own cross to bear and in most of these sports, you need every edge to compete - I totally understand why people do it. But **** Lance Armstrong - he went above and beyond, made every attempt to ruin people who decided to come clean and held himself out to be the Knight in Shining Armor. He deserves everything he has coming to him. |
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Snubbed a man just to watch him cry.
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Downright Brilliant
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I believe you..... BUT MY TOMMY GUN DONT!
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We have a mini tour race in my neck of the woods the past 4 years, with many Tour de France racers including last years winner. And you wont believe the turnout to watch this. It was pretty exciting for 5 minutes. The big plus, is the business it brings to town when they roll through, many dollars spent.
But even before we had this event, and the reason they started it, was due to all the tight bike short wearing yahoos that ate up Armstrongs half a bannana hammock. Knowing the whole sport is pretty corrupt, wonder if interest wanes, or gets bigger now with "clean" riders?? |
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