Armstrong charged and banned

[ComedyPilot]

Oh dear..........

The 'greatest' TDF winner turns out to, well....................

I'm not angry, just disappointed.

 

[MichaelM]

Fair enough.......I think he gets his titles stripped, and the record books show as much, thats just my opinion.

Please p.m. me 6 numbers between 1 and 44!

 

[Crankarm]

He's still an awesome bike rider.

 

[rich p]

Is it therefore true that since 1995 (Miguel Indurain) only in 3, recent, years have riders (Carlos Sastre, Cadel Evans and Bradley Wiggins) won the Tour clean?

Sastre?

 

[Strathlubnaig]

Who was it said 'pro cycling is like sausages...I love them but don't want to know how they are made' ?

 

[Fletch456]

His titles are being removed as a result of him announcing he will no longer fight the charges.... I don't like the man and there is far too much mud for some to stick if it went to court but this is bad for cycling - just tweeted by Cycling Weekly "Lance Armstrong will be stripped of his seven Tour titles and banned from WADA sport after announcing he will not contest USADA case. " As for the governing body/ies - Nose spite and face comes to mind.

 

[Strathlubnaig]

Tell me this, who actually 'strips the titles' ? Is it the UCI, ASO ?? Is USADA's title stripping merely symbolic ?

 

[rich p]

An interesting interview with Tygart here in which he says that they will release the evidence after the other cases have been heard. Whether Bruyneel will want to go to arbitration whereby some or all of the evidence will be aired is doubtful. Lance would be bunging him a few bob to keep schtum if he had any left.
http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/1...-1st-1998-will-be-stripped.aspx#ixzz24R6Deq5I

 

[lukesdad]

Sastre?

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Tell me this, who actually 'strips the titles' ? Is it the UCI, ASO ?? Is USADA's title stripping merely symbolic ?

I put forward a suggestion in the caff...

I'd like to think it was a sort of anti-award ceremony whereby someone theatrically rips the medals off him and then a flunky kicks his sorry arse out of the door.

 

[Smokin Joe]

He's still an awesome bike rider.

I prefer to think of him as a wart on the arse of professional cycling, the worst thing that ever happened to it in it's history.

And that isn't because he doped - they nearly all did at one point - it's because of the Mafia Don like hold he tried to put on anyone who attempted to clean the sport up.

Lance Armstrong is a walking turd.

 

[Chuffy]

His titles are being removed as a result of him announcing he will no longer fight the charges.... I don't like the man and there is far too much mud for some to stick if it went to court but this is bad for cycling - just tweeted by Cycling Weekly "Lance Armstrong will be stripped of his seven Tour titles and banned from WADA sport after announcing he will not contest USADA case. " As for the governing body/ies - Nose spite and face comes to mind.

USADA, an anti-doping agency covering all sports, are the people to thank for this. The UCI, who are the guys actually in charge of cycling, have been doing their desperate best to kick this under the carpet and have been covering Armstrong's arse since 1999.

It is the job of both of them to stop dopers and kick them out of the sport. Only one of them is actually making a serious attempt at doing this.

 

[400bhp]

Just been chatting about this at work - just seems to be another sad indictment of the world we live in. Money and power have a lot to answer for.

 

[Chuffy]

Twitter still crawling with deluded fanboys and girls. Clueless morons, every last one of them.

 

[Ian H]

It's just part of the rich tapestry of cycle sport - and I'm not talking only about pro sport.