alocispepraluger102 Posted October 16, 2012 Report Share Posted October 16, 2012 LINK ""Lance didn't do it alone," said longtime Armstrong critic Betsy Andreu, the wife of the Texan's former friend and teammate, Frankie Andreu. She has also found herself a target of Armstrong's attacks and charges, along with her husband, following their testimony in a lawsuit Armstrong filed in 2004 against SCA Promotions in which they described hearing Armstrong tell doctors treating him for cancer that he had taken performance-enhancing drugs. "How else could he pull off the biggest fraud in the history of sport? He had big corporations backing him, the cycling governing body, UCI, defending him, and the media ignoring the evidence. No wonder fans thought that he was clean." "Nike vehemently denies that it paid former UCI president Hein Verbruggen $500,000 to cover up a positive drug test," the company said in a statement. "Nike does not condone the use of illegal performance enhancing drugs." A former Armstrong teammate, meanwhile, said he would lead a demonstration outside Nike's Oregon headquarters on Tuesday to protest the company's continued support of the cyclist. "Nike should not condone the behavior that Lance Armstrong has demonstrated for so long," former professional rider Paul Willerton said. "To see Nike take this stance now is disgusting. Nike's materials have stood for some of the greatest thing you can stand for as a company. A clean sport should be another one of those things." Willerton said he was on a fishing trip with Greg LeMond when Armstrong called the three-time Tour de France winner and threatened him. "Lance basically told Greg he better shut his mouth about the dope, or he was going to find 10 people to say Greg took those drugs," Willerton told Oregon's KPTV-TV. "That rattled Greg, who was adamant to Lance that he won those races clean." Armstrong and Tailwind Sports, the firm that managed his cycling team, filed the lawsuit against SCA, a Dallas company that indemnifies sponsors who offer prizes based on athletic achievements, in a Texas court. The suit was filed after SCA refused to pay Armstrong a $5 million bonus Tailwind had promised the cyclist for winning the 2004 Tour de France because of allegations of doping reported in "LA Confidential – the Secrets of Lance Armstrong," the explosive book by journalists David Walsh and Pierre Ballester." Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/i-team/nike-left-footprint-lance-scandal-article-1.1184431#ixzz29VZonB6E Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Nessa Posted October 16, 2012 Report Share Posted October 16, 2012 He was shooting shoes???!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alocispepraluger102 Posted October 16, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 16, 2012 (edited) YEAH, THEY WERE SEXING UP UP HIS HEMOGLOBIN, TOO. Edited October 16, 2012 by alocispepraluger102 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alocispepraluger102 Posted October 17, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 17, 2012 (edited) Is it bigger news that Lance is stepping down from Livestrong or that Nike is now dropping him? Edited October 17, 2012 by alocispepraluger102 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T.D. Posted October 17, 2012 Report Share Posted October 17, 2012 Is it bigger news that Lance is stepping down from Livestrong or that Nike is now dropping him? I'd say they're about equivalent. Can't help making the smartass remark that if you have too much ethical/conduct baggage for NIKE to handle, you must have gone bad wrong somewhere... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alocispepraluger102 Posted October 17, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 17, 2012 Is it bigger news that Lance is stepping down from Livestrong or that Nike is now dropping him? I'd say they're about equivalent. Can't help making the smartass remark that if you have too much ethical/conduct baggage for NIKE to handle, you must have gone bad wrong somewhere... now that's an understatement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T.D. Posted October 17, 2012 Report Share Posted October 17, 2012 Here's an interesting angle*: The Real Reason Nike Canned Lance Armstrong Has Nothing To Do With Doping *Disclosure: Item is from a source that I consider sensationalist and not fully reliable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alocispepraluger102 Posted October 17, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 17, 2012 (edited) lance commercial it seems that many nike ad campaigns may depend on lies. anheuser-busch is dropping the lancer at the end of this year. Edited October 17, 2012 by alocispepraluger102 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Schwartz Posted October 18, 2012 Report Share Posted October 18, 2012 Lance had built what has finally been dismantled; the greatest cover up machine imaginable, in a sport that's been a 2 wheel PED machine for decades. It's hard to fathom he kept all his accusers at bay for a decade and did it with teamates that were more than likely as dirty as he was. Not an avid follower, but 2 instances from TDF that I remember clearly were where the team time trial when the commentators were gushing praise as they'd never seen anything like it and they absolutely smoked the field. The other was a late stage on the mountains where they were saying his yellow jersey was in danger of slipping away where Lance just passed his #1 adversary as if he were standing still and and had rockets on his bike. You could see the dejection on the other rider's face as he could not handle what Armstrong produced. In retrospect, admirers used to *explain* the prowess in similar fashion to other cheaters like Bonds & Clemens, saying that those guys had workout routines that were above and beyond the competition,and in Armstrong's case they used to say that because of his comeback from cancer, his muscle mass and such were reduced to the point that it was some kind of advantage when he returned to good health. Unbelievebly great covering up, along with crazily determined people who stayed pissed off and determined not to walk away from charges against Lance! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T.D. Posted October 18, 2012 Report Share Posted October 18, 2012 (edited) Ironically, the most unmistakable real-time Team LANCE doping evidence I recall involved his most faithful lieutenant George Hincapie, who's universally liked and respected (by me as well). In LANCE's 2005 final TDF win, George won the Pla d'Adet "queen stage" (most high cols) of the TDF. This was a real mind-blower: HTF could big George, though undoubtedly a talented rider and deserving of props, beat all the flyweight stage-hunter climbers after countless hours of riding in the wind at the front of the peloton and setting fierce tempi on the intermediate slopes of all the previous cols? It was just too much, as if Team LANCE was thumbing its nose at all the other teams.* I guess it was a hubris thing: LANCE must have been deluded by his power/fame/money and assumed he could never be caught. Another incident that left a really sour taste in my mouth was LANCE's first sub-3 hour NYC Marathon in 2006. NIKE recruited all kinds of famous/iconic runners to pace LANCE and fetch him drinks and Gu packs. For instance, Joan Benoit Samuelson paced him early, and middle-distance great / WR holder Hicham El Guerrouj (WTF!) was pacing him and fetching refreshments late (in Central Park IIRC). I sure hope those "supporting cast" athletes got paid well! *Not unlike the Dr. Ferrari-trained EPO-fueled 1994 Gewiss Ballan team sweeping the podium at classics, and mega-doper teammates Riccò and Piepoli (who got busted mid-race) riding away from the field on 2008 TDF climbs. Edited October 18, 2012 by T.D. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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