The new improved Lance Armstrong discussion thread.*

[ColinJ]

May I be the first to congratulate you all for managing to somehow stay just this side of threadlock for long enough to get to 1,000 posts!. And now I'm bored of it, and won't bother trying to keep up any longer ...

(Oh sod it - I forgot to have anything to eat, so I'll post this a couple of posts early and head down to the kitchen! )

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Dr Ferrari says he needs time to study the document... I bet he does.

 

[Smokin Joe]

[QUOTE 2100611, member: 45"]I, on the other hand, used to think that Lance was a druggy cheat.

Now I'm convinced that he's innocent.[/quote]
There's not a shred of evidence that he got his team-mates to dress as schoolgirls and sit on his crossbar, it's all just hearsay.

Mind you, I still don't believe Jimmy Savile won those seven Tours on only cigars and hairspray. Something fishy there if you ask me,

 

[totallyfixed]

Forgive me if someone has already posted this link, I borrowed it from The Clinic, "The World According to Lance" being shown in Australia. It's good. Betsy, Phil Liggett, etc
http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/2012/10/11/3608613.htm

 

[totallyfixed]

This is just the perfect programe for all those doubters to watch, especially the fanboys. For me it's great because I have closely followed the story since Lance started racing and now to see the clips of everyone I had only previously read about, tremendous. A great deal more to come yet and still the Peleton remains by and large strangely silent.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Michael Ashenden says Australian cycling has to answer some hard questions about the Armstrong affair.

 

[DogTired]

Dr Ferrari says he needs time to study the document... I bet he does.

He's probably double-checking to make sure he remembered to invoice everyone.

 

[Paul_L]

Wow, just watched the ABC documentary. A recommended watch.

 

[DogTired]

Even google thinks its all a bit suspicious

There's a Daily Mail article http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/ot...nation-linked-alleged-drug-test-cover-up.html which underneath has the following google ads appended.

Drugs Facts and Information
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www.TalktoFRANK.com

EPO Cyclist Supplements
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www.EPOBoost.com

How apt!
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[asterix]

Would it be possible to clean out the UCI?

Or just shoot the lot of them?

 

[007fair]

UCI are without doubt complicit which is why they did nothing about it when informed. UCI and LA are blood brothers in more than one sense.
The only reason they are still there is that some people still think the evidence is not scientific enough .. and UCI hang on to this and just play dumb

UCI should be disbanded utterly and rebuilt

 

[Pottsy]

With Millar at the head of the new version?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cycling/19956995

 

[dellzeqq]

Forgive me if someone has already posted this link, I borrowed it from The Clinic, "The World According to Lance" being shown in Australia. It's good. Betsy, Phil Liggett, etc
http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/2012/10/11/3608613.htm

Yet, as his career disappears before his eyes, Lance Armstrong, seven times winner of the Tour de France, is still protesting his innocence.
Not really. His career is simply moving on

 

[007fair]

With Millar at the head of the new version?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cycling/19956995

As an ex cheat he should never be the president. It should be someone like Greg Lemond, Betsy Andreu or Scott Mercier, Bassons.. people who stood up when the pressure was greatest and therefore proved their integrity.

 

[asterix]

As [he is] a reformed cheat.I would say he is perfectly qualified. "To catch a thief" and all that.

Is what I am sure you mean?

And I tend to agree. Millar gives every appearance of being a reformed character and sincere. What is more his past can no longer catch up with him, we know about it.