The Lance Armstrong Story

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It's bad enough when you've got something on your mind and it takes a while for it to go away so for him to live such a lie and to fall so far is amazing really.
 


A sad watch. I remember the last time the Tour was in London back in 2007 I went along to watch it. Was undoubtedly a bit naive and I remember Vino crashing early on in the race and being really badly cut up, yet putting in some gutsy rides to remain in contention, before of course the inevitable happening and him being hooked out. That upset me a lot at the time. Despite the Landis thing from the year before I still wanted to believe in gutsy performances and it was like a punch in the stomach to hear of 'yet another one' that you couldn't believe in.
 
Wasnt like he was the only one though. Just the snidest one I guess.

Will give up on sport if the strides British cycling has made over the last 8 years or so is ever "compromised".
 
roydo said:
Wasnt like he was the only one though. Just the snidest one I guess.

Will give up on sport if the strides British cycling has made over the last 8 years or so is ever "compromised".
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No, pretty much that entire era was dirty. I guess the problem is when your expectations are dashed, and with Armstrong he created such high expectations that he had not only won in sport but done so having defeated cancer. That his cancer was probably caused by drugs that he then used to win in sport. I'm not sure there are words for it really.
 
Bruce Wayne said:
No, pretty much that entire era was dirty. I guess the problem is when your expectations are dashed, and with Armstrong he created such high expectations that he had not only won in sport but done so having defeated cancer. That his cancer was probably caused by drugs that he then used to win in sport. I'm not sure there are words for it really.
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You know this sport well Bruce. Sky and Team GB have done amazing since, what, Beijing(?), on the track and the road. Before then, all I can recall is Chris Boardman, and some bloke who was King of the Mountains once, (Miller?). If they were say a Chinese team, would you have suspicions?

Not casting doubt, just interested.
 
Bruce Wayne said:
No, pretty much that entire era was dirty. I guess the problem is when your expectations are dashed, and with Armstrong he created such high expectations that he had not only won in sport but done so having defeated cancer. That his cancer was probably caused by drugs that he then used to win in sport. I'm not sure there are words for it really.
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Not wanting to wind you up or anything, but do you honestly believe it's confined to that era - especially with Daryl Impey the other week and, as much as it depresses me as I want to believe he's a good guy, but the remarkable improvement in Chris Froome and the renewed suspicions of the likes of Kimmage?

Biological passports seem to be the thing they all hang their hat on as "proving" they're clean but it's a safe bet to suggest that if they can find a way around it, they will.

The whole sport is basically a nonsense to me, much like track sprinting is and baseball.
 

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