Armstrong fallout could extend to Olympic cycling??

[creadinger]

This would be a real travesty. Other then the grand tours, cycling is hardly ever on TV except for the Olympics when they show track cycling and other single day events.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/olympics-fourth-place-medal/olympics-could-drop-cycling-over-lance-armstrong-revelations-131728949–oly.html

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[TwoWheelsDC]

@Dirt 41067 wrote:

I haven’t watched all of it yet, but what struck me from the whole thing is this: He admitted and confessed the stuff that he really is not able to deny because there’s direct, eye witness testimony from other credible witnesses. He dodged, skirted over and didn’t answer most of the bigger, more weighty issues. That tells me that this is a well-orchestrated public relations move designed to get him SOME level of credibility so that he has a leg to stand on when it comes to some of the later legal actions that are bound to come. Had he continued the deny, deny, deny that he was doing before, he would have obviously had zero cred because he was obviously lying about the obvious. Confess to some stuff to get credibility so that he can continue lying about some big stuff and maybe avoid some of the shit storm coming his way.

I’m happy he confessed. I’ve heard first-hand of the good that Livestrong does and like the organization. I don’t for a moment think that he’s feeling any sincere remorse for what he’s done.

Just my take on what I’ve seen.

Rock on! I love y’all.

I’m sorry, I just couldn’t help but notice this comment was left at 5:05 AM on a Saturday. Dirt, you cray.

[Dirt]

@TwoWheelsDC 41128 wrote:

I’m sorry, I just couldn’t help but notice this comment was left at 5:05 AM on a Saturday. Dirt, you cray.

Humans are weird. Y’all waste 1/3 of your life sleeping.

[fuzzy]

Give me drugs and let me compete & get paid obscene amounts of money. I really wouldn’t care if I got caught cheating AFTER becoming a bazillionaire.

[vvill]

It seemed apparent from the parts I watched that he isn’t actually remorseful for anything that happened, only that he was caught, brought down (with a lot of effort) and is essentially being forced to do what he’s doing now, and boohoo that is really hard on him and his family. It also seems like he has spent so much of his life lying that you end up assuming nothing he’s saying is genuine. He talks as if everything he says is a lie, even if it isn’t, even if he is trying to tell the truth, because he’s trained himself to do that to such an extreme.

[ShawnoftheDread]

I’m still waiting for an apology for the pain that’s been inflicted on everyone. No, not from Armstrong. From Oprah.

[Jason B]

^^^
They say this is a healing process, but I feel this is opening old painful wounds that many of us would soon like to forget. I feel this will be coming back to us over and over again, but when will our society ever truly be over………..Oprah.
Join me, “Say No To O,” again, and this time from the guys in the back.
For goodness sakes, get out and ride today, it was gorgeous with a capital G! Darest I say, I am going to go for seconds, this time fixed!

[Greenbelt]

Wow — Sports Illustrated has an interview with Kathy LeMond that’s pretty direct on Lance’s (astonishing lack of) character and his bullying:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/more/news/20130118/lance-armstrong-admission-kathy-lemond-reaction/

If her descriptions of Lance are accurate, and that seems to be the consensus now, that makes this guy’s courage and resilience even more awesome, off the bike as well as on.

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PS. The sig line reads: “To Erik and Larry at Proteus,
Thanks for all your help” — Greg LeMond

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