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- orlyfactor, on 11/18/2008, -10/+46After dumping his wife who helped him through cancer, I have no pity for this man. Let the masses at 'em!
- inactive, on 11/18/2008, -6/+33LEAVE LANCE ARMSTRONG ALONE!!! LEAVE HIM ALONE, I'M SERIOUS!!!
- protogenxl, on 11/18/2008, -3/+30If he is so concerned he should get a team of German security guards. Frenchman will be falling over themselves to surrender.
- FlyingPhotog, on 11/18/2008, -10/+32He's starting to come across as a bit of a diva here. C'mon Lance, man up.
- miriv365, on 11/18/2008, -1/+20ball..
- inactive, on 11/18/2008, -2/+15He gets death threats and was spit on numerous times everytime he participated and the security is almost non existant on the circuit.
I'd be scared too. - inactive, on 11/18/2008, -0/+13Yeah, I'm sure he had absolutely no valid reasons to get a divorce. Looking at any situation through such a narrow viewpoint is stupid.
- inactive, on 11/18/2008, -2/+14Yeah, they love American's who left their wives, that helped them through cancer, after she gets cancer, and spanked all of their riders 7 years in a row.
- NovaPrime9, on 11/18/2008, -1/+12He's totally justified in thinking this... the French hate him. There already have been incidents in the past, and they were very happy to have him gone. Coming back is salt in the wound for them. Remember, this isn't a sport where the fans are separated from the athletes. They are right up there, they can reach out and touch them. They can also shove them. And that's all it takes.
- WeaponAlpha, on 11/18/2008, -3/+13Geez... Grow a pair!
- phalanxcronos, on 11/18/2008, -1/+10Dave Wiens is the Lance Armstrong of Mountain biking and the defending champion of the Leadville 100. Its extremely impressive that Armstrong a road bicyclist was able to keep up with him for so long in the race and manage to get 2nd place.
- mikeman10001, on 11/18/2008, -1/+10Read up when Nelson Mandela dumped his wife.
- topgigmedia, on 11/18/2008, -0/+8let's focus on his sport and leave his personal life out of it. It is all mere speculation and none of us really know how it went down. Do you work for Access Hollywood or something?
- inactive, on 11/18/2008, -0/+8The one who makes baseless assertions without proof or evidence is the only non-objective one that's in denial.
- asgardshill, on 11/18/2008, -0/+8That should be singular, not plural.
- bicyclethief, on 11/18/2008, -1/+9*Lance has the ball to keep kicking French ass.
- evil-doer, on 11/18/2008, -1/+9you do understand the whole world races in this race right? not just french people?
it just takes place there. - jturbo, on 11/18/2008, -1/+8Wow.....what a badass....he, a 5 time mtb champion in his element, beat a retired Lance Armstrong, a long distance road racer, in an off road mtb race....what an accomplishment....
What's next...Armstrong, unicycling for 10 days, is beaten by 5 time unicyclist champion....you're stupid. - cooliehawk, on 11/18/2008, -4/+11Lance Armstrong: More afraid of Frenchmen than of cancer
- TheCamino, on 11/18/2008, -3/+9 The funny thing is that people accused him of dopng for years.
While, again, and again, and again, people who doped got busted behind him.
Why?
Because Lance is a doper. Period.
(HOW DARE YOU SAY THAT! IT'S AN OUTRAGE! GRRRR.)
Why say that?
They're all dopers. It's so rampant, it should be incorporated into the game anymore.
Testicular cancer? Why is everyone in cycling getting testicular cancer? Bike seats? Hell no. That's bull. Lance is no different.
Professional cycling is like professional thoroughbread racing. They pump those horses full of steriods as well, and then cover it up.
How can people like Lance beat people who are doping on the tour? His lung capacity? His ability to withstand pain? Technique?
Bull. It's an obvious bull. If you saw his last performance in the mountain stages, you'd see it. He blew away the steroid racers. Like a fricking machine. If everyone is doing steriods, Lance was. you HAVE to do them to win. Or you lose. Period.
I've been on steroids to get over bronchitis, we're talking low level, crappy, help your breathing pills. Nothing serious. Get over a cough pills. Dog level quantities. Never felt better! Wanted to run a couple miles, even with the bronchitis.
The whole sport is rigged when it comes to steroids, and to win, you have to do them, or lose miserably.
Let no one fool you, Lance is a badass, and a champion.
But testicular cancer is pretty darn obvious.
If he wanted to have a shot, he had to dope like the rest of them. It's not rampant, it apparent when looking at times over the years.
But when Hencapie, Freiere, and Valverde just fall back and forth in the rankings, and their teammates are caught doping, then it's pretty obvious that doping is rampant. The reason that they're doping is you have to. The reason why they fall back and forth is, they don't want to get caught, and they don't want to permanently screw their bodies.
They cannot let a Tour de France winner get his title stripped for doping. People will act like it's the FIRST TIME. OMG! The reality is that they've been doping for decades.
They also can't go back. How can the tour winner come in five hours later than last year?
Not likely. And they're never going to strip a champion of his title, and give it to another person who was doping just as much as the champ was.
I'm not saying that Lance was evil.
I'm saying that professional cycling's rules about doping are a friggin' joke, and pride about stripping titles caused cheating to be acceptable behavior. - inactive, on 11/18/2008, -0/+6he doesn't sound like he got balls
- Feraldr00d, on 11/18/2008, -2/+8You mean he's always had the ball to keep kicking French ass.
- scoottie, on 11/18/2008, -1/+7have you ever been hit by a day old baguette?
- shaka999, on 11/18/2008, -1/+7Ahhh, so you have some proof jturbo?
Yeah, didn't think so. - inactive, on 11/18/2008, -0/+6This guy doesn't like evidence or proof. He just likes making baseless accusations because he's a bitter, pathetic individual.
- krwlngindark, on 11/18/2008, -6/+11These people need to get off his balls.
- shaka999, on 11/18/2008, -0/+5Proof?
- inactive, on 11/18/2008, -2/+7Lance decided to participate 10 days before the race.
This guy trained for a year and won by only a minute. - MattB123, on 11/18/2008, -1/+6It happened to Eddie Merckx and prevented him from winning his sixth tour, so it definitely can happen. And with increasing hostility from the French I could this this happening. It's a shame.
Of course nobody who races the Giro in the same season ever wins the Tour, so maybe he's just trying to lower expectations or give himself an out. - Midtowner, on 11/18/2008, -2/+7The anti-France crap is so 2001.
Cut that crap out, will you? - brstilson, on 11/18/2008, -0/+4I'd leave him alone if you were serial.
- tnwake, on 11/18/2008, -0/+4Um, no. Someone who saves a child from a burning house, that's a hero. A bicyclist, regardless of how good they may be, is not a hero.
- elo91, on 11/18/2008, -1/+5you clearly have very little knowledge of history. america has had a strained relationship with the french ever since we freed them from the nazis. i remember my grandfather, who fought in ww2, saying very negative things about them long before bush invaded iraq. de gaulle did absolutely nothing but beg for assistance from the british and americans for 3 years, and when he gets it his first order of business is to do everything in his power to undermine those two nations. so yeah, it isn't like we suddenly decided to hate the french in 2003. this has been going on since the late 40s.
- lead2thehead, on 11/18/2008, -5/+9Yes, his poor, poor wife has suffered so much. Never mind that Lance had TESTICULAR CANCER that spread to his brain and lungs. No, no... his ex wife is the *real* victim here. Please.
- Dubbsacc, on 11/18/2008, -1/+4Nothing compared to France in WWII.
Most resentment towards the French is from the total lack of respect for any Americans in your country. When these are son's and daughter's of men who fought to take your country back from Germany that are visiting your Country. - gala7516, on 11/18/2008, -0/+3uhh...Floyd Landis anyone?
- dsiv, on 11/18/2008, -0/+3I'm sure he gets death threats, and I'm sure he has a right to be scared. He's also a world-class professional who should be able to find a way to deal with these pressures in a more mature way. Some of his quotes in this article (if accurate) are pretty immature and petulant.
- inactive, on 11/18/2008, -0/+3I'm thuper therial!
- reugeneg, on 11/18/2008, -4/+7What a freaking drama queen. Just cause the race is in France doesn't mean it won't be a Belgian, Italian, Dutch, German or Spaniard that's gonna take a swing at you. Are you saying they'll be pissed cause they know you doped to win 7 Tours? Stay home.
- protogenxl, on 11/18/2008, -1/+4No I am not
http://www.code7r.org/Bintoons/allies2.htm - gala7516, on 11/18/2008, -1/+4He didn't meet his wife until almost year after he was diagnosed with cancer.
- inactive, on 11/18/2008, -0/+2Sheryl Crow.
- kragil, on 11/18/2008, -11/+13Most cyclists dope and Lance is the worst of them all. If you think otherwise you are not objective and/or in denial.
- equ1nt1s, on 11/18/2008, -1/+3This is something people that aren't cyclists can't grasp. Go out one day cycling and take on a serious grade climb after 60 or so miles, it will destroy you and make you wonder how the pros do it. It's not just that they're ballin', and don't get me wrong, drugs aside they could grease me no problem, but if you're in a sport where doping has become ingrained and the best riders know how to conceal it, you're going to dope or else you won't win and that'll be it for your career. There are so many ways to get around the UCI rules on doping, it IS a joke. When you hear of people getting caught, it's something like, suspiciously high levels of XXXX, or they found needles in the hotel, etc. Not so much a cut and dry thing like it is in sports like swimming or track and field. Sadly it's a cheating-ridden sport and will probably continue to be.
- FearisFailure, on 11/18/2008, -0/+2
- scoottie, on 11/18/2008, -0/+2lmao
- equ1nt1s, on 11/18/2008, -1/+3cyclists don't typically ***** around with testosterone drugs, too easy to get caught.
- DesignNerd, on 11/18/2008, -0/+2Wouldn't the smart thing to do be just to...sit it out? I mean, he's won plenty of them. Give someone else a chance.
- inactive, on 11/18/2008, -2/+4He doesn't cheat. But he does beat people who do.
- equ1nt1s, on 11/18/2008, -0/+2Something else to add, EPO which is the cyclists drug of choice, is a cancer drug given to increase red blood cell counts, which, oh wait, didn't Lance have immediate access to? Nothing against the guy, he's a machine, but he's no angel.
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