It looks like cheating pushbike rider Lance Armstrong is going to admit to some degree of cheating to Oprah Winfrey tomorrow. It will be screened on the Discovery channel at 2am on Friday morning. I know there is a cycling forum but this sort of transcends it. The Sunday Times published a full page advert in the Chicago Tribune yesterday. It was in the form of a letter to Oprah, with a list of 10 questions they believe she should ask Lance. • Did you tell doctors at the Indiana University Hospital on Oct. 27, 1996, that you had taken EPO, human growth hormone, cortisone, steroids and testosterone? • After returning from cancer how did you justify putting banned drugs in your body? • Did you have any sympathy for those rivals determined to race clean? • Do you regret how you treated Betsy Andreu, your former masseuse Emma O’Reilly and Greg LeMond? • Do you admit that your friend Dr. Michele Ferrari fully supported your team’s doping? • Is it your intention to return the prize money you earned from Sept. 1998 to July 2010? • Did you sue the Sunday Times to shut us up? • Was your failure to understand Floyd Landis the key to your downfall? • Do you accept your lying to the cancer community was the greatest deception of all? • Why have you chosen Oprah Winfrey for your first interview as a banned athlete? The open letter is signed, “Regards, David Walsh, Chief Sports Writer, The Sunday Times, London,” with the following postscript: “The Sunday Times is seeking to recover about $1.5m it claims he got by fraud. He used Britain’s draconian libel laws against us.” David Walsh has been a pushbike journo for years now and was a bit of a fan boy at the start. Whilst everyone else kept their gob shut, he and a few others set about chasing the story. A proper journo who along with Paul Kimmage should enjoy their moment in the sun. Both went through **** in their search for the truth and are now completely vindicated. Good for them. I hear Lance has just apologised to the Livestrong team. This'll cost him a fortune but the sums must add up somewhere for him to do it.
Armstrong duped the entire cycling community throughout the world for 7 years. The epic event that is the tour de france has forever been tainted. How can one man inspire so many only to let them down? The tour de france is one of the greatest endurance races in the world. The physical exploits of the "clean" riders is possibly beyond comparison in any other sport in the world. What about the kids that idolised him? How do they feel? How about the "clean" athletes that gave their all and won nothing? How do they feel? Actually, it's cycling. Only ****s and *****s cycle. Who gives a ****?
****s? Don't think so.... [video=youtube;rRTlStScolw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRTlStScolw[/video]
These guys would kick **** out of those cyclists [video=youtube;0FdQVx55_fs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FdQVx55_fs[/video]
