Lance Armstrong To Confess?

Yah, it's pretty comical.

Is cycling like NASCAR for the French?

Nascar really is just cars going in a circle though. I'm not a big car racing fan, but I do have to admit that the smaller amateur races are much more interesting. Indy car races are also pretty neat. I bet Nascar was a lot more interesting back in the 50's and 60's when they were using home-built hotrods, dirt tracks or beach tracks, and gallons of bourbon for fuel. It's just so corporate now. They don't have mechanics, they have technicians.

As for Lance, I saw he was gonna do an Oprah interview and thought, "Welp. I guess Lance is gonna ask Saint Oprah to forgive him." The only question is will he SAY he did it all for the cancerkids or will he only imply it?

BrutulTM_sl said:

It's just celebrity schadenfreude. Any time something bad happens to a famous person there is a certain group who's going to line up and cheer about it.

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This is generally true. However, people have a reason to cheer that Lance gets some comeuppance. He went out of his way to fuck anyone who dared to tell the truth about his means to success.

The guy is really a living paradox. He and his foundation have done a ton for cancer patients and his victories are impressive given that we know damn near every top contender was using PEDs (hence the field was basically level). If he wasn't such a colossal douchebag in his personal affairs, I think he would get the Andy Pettitte treatment.

The thing is, every single athlete who cheat like Armstrong (apparently) did, deserves the hate Armstrong is getting. Just banning someone for participating in competitions for a year so so, after which they can go right back and dot it all over is hardly effective. If people want see less cheating in sport there has to be no second chances, no forgiveness and no excuses really.

Its a shame this reaction only occurs because they guy is more famous than your average athlete.

BrutulTM_sl said:

Lance being Lance he defended himself perhaps more aggressively than was absolutely necessary, but even that doesn't strike me as especially unusual.

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A matter of opinion, I suppose. I think he was an over-the-top prick that used his fame and wealth to stomp on less fortunate people who told the truth. It's par for the course in PED cases, but that doesn't make it ok. From what I've read, Armstrong really went the extra mile to screw people. Suing for slander in favorable venues (ironically winning judgements against people speaking truth), pressuring his sponsors into blackballing people, outright threatening them verbally, using his pull to end their careers, etc.

I'm not sure what you mean by "it's not that he did it, it's that he lied". It's neither. It's that he went medieval on tattlers out of spite. I could care less that he did it or that he lied, it's now common knowledge PEDs and blood doping are as common as energy bars in cycling, so I'd say his accomplishments still stand as impressive feats. Just issue the categorical denial and have Nike pay off the USADA to sweep it under the rug again. OK, I really have no proof Nike paid off the USADA.

Yeah, have you ever been telling the truth and had someone call you a liar to your face? If so, you know how absolutely infuriating that is. Now multiply that by a million and you have what Armstrong was doing to people. Not only that but take it a step further and have him sue and have his minions who think he's god threaten your safety. Calling him an asshole is redundant but the fact that he's always been a raging asshole only makes people want him to pay even more.

Pump me full of steroids and I would still collaspe on a single stage of the tour..

I don't have any rage, I just don't understand why it's such a big story. It was clear he did it years ago, it was public knowledge he was a dick, this shouldn't be remotely surprising. Why are people acting like this is utterly shocking when he's been a prick his entire life and he happened to beat cancer?

Care-meter reads a full 0, anyone with half of a brain and the internet new this shit years ago. The dumbass should've just kept his mouth shut.

No video of the confession yet? I think it was suppose to be today. Imma google brb

God is a woman, and black.