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Lance Armstrong ends fight against doping charges
- Thread starter martyn20
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It also serves as a massive deterrent. Ok, you might be a step ahead of us, but we will catch up one day, and we will publish the results, and you will be dragged through the mud. Although saying that, it's difficult (impossible) to have any symathy for multimillionaire Armstrong.
He was just the one that got caught, because he over-did it so much. Maybe one day sports will be fairly clean. We can dream.
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Not even you can produce a stat to prove otherwise wikiAcker
The greatest podcast ever FACT.
Not even you can produce a stat to prove otherwise wikiAcker
Nor would I want to even try.
As I'm not going to get involved in the who is/who isn't debate (most of them are, why wouldn't they).
I'm going after this one, instead.
Interest in Le Tour has always been stratopheric, you only have to look at the crowds lining the street whenever it comes over.
A million+ people a few years ago, long before Team Sky.
Check out the footage of Brighton's stage, back in the day, massive massive crowds.
What's elevated the sport, is the media finally coming round to thinking the same.
Top stuff, a question I usually ask of other buglers:-
Is it wrong to have The Bugle form most if not all of my political views?
No. Unless you are trying to be the leader of the Republican Party.
I've not heard the interview, but I believe from 'bespoke' Big George got a name check.
Calm down calm down!!!! I never said there was no interest in Le Tour. There has always been cyclists who follow it and maybe a few sports fanatics who follow anything but with the success over recent years of our cyclists has come increased demand and with it the increased media attention which itself generates more interest. In 1994 there were great crowds but Boardman was, according to Wikipedia, the holder of the yellow jersey when the stage started. His fame had previously come from the Olympics and his one hour records attempts.
At the end of the day, rather than have a pop at me, perhaps you should be responding to Mr Biggums who seem to suggest that no one followed cycling before Armstrong!!!!
Oh I wasn't having a pop at you, more the media for finally deciding there's an cycling audience, when in fact it's been there all along. The footage of the Plymouth stage back in the early 70's back that up.
Boardman wasn't wearing Yellow for Brighton.
Ironically he lost yellow the stage before it came to England and Sean Yeates won it in Portsmouth for the next stage in France.
Fair enough. (Still think you should have a pop at Biggums though!).
ok ok, I'll re read Ty and stick the boot in after I've walked the dogs.
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The little I have seen has wound me up more than I thought.
The complete lack of choice in his argument.
What the F is this referring to himself in the third party.
The lack of any sincerity in his argument.
The sad world he inherits. The inability to face up to what he has done and how much he needs to walk away now and just get this all out in court and get another job that does not involve chemicals.
Shows how much money and sport can create cheats and fraudsters
The complete lack of choice in his argument.
What the F is this referring to himself in the third party.
The lack of any sincerity in his argument.
The sad world he inherits. The inability to face up to what he has done and how much he needs to walk away now and just get this all out in court and get another job that does not involve chemicals.
Shows how much money and sport can create cheats and fraudsters
Pretty much feel the same the man has gone down even further in my estimation (if possible) he does not life in the real world and I would prefer to never hear his name again.
I took [MENTION=2878]Woodchip[/MENTION]'s advise and left well alone, and jolly pleased I am too.
The general consensus being he said just enough to make it an event, but nowhere never enough to be relevant.
It's one thing not to be sorry, but something completely different to be sorry and not mean it.
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That is a massive thing to accuse a sport of. Cycling doesn't have a doping problem, never has. Individuals taint sports.
It felt like his appearance was part of a strategy to try to get to a position where he would be accepted into another sport Triathlon? / Iron Man? I hope we never hear from him again. Sport is nothing if we can't trust it. When an individual improves rapidly we now raise eyebrows - sad world.