Lance Armstrong- who feels what?

[Tango23]

Topical in the News the world over, honestly how bad is this coverage?
Lance Armstrong cheated by using banned substances- fine I got it, in fact I read about it and gathered as much three years ago!

Does this really deserve such great exposure? Most of the top guys in cycling back in the day (1990s) were presumably experimenting with go-faster-meds.
Old news, just saying!

Surely there are better stories about real problems to report on nowadays?
How about that young lad whom lost his fight after being shot in Afghanistan, which was page three news? WTF?

What are your thoughts?

[URquattroGus]

He wants to compete again! He should be ashamed! I think this man should not be able to compete in an egg and spoon race....

Spare me the sobb story. Lieing for all those years and even holding people who dared to question how he won, does this guy have no conscience or decency at all?

Yes others were doping, but misleading people for so many years!

Where are all those yellow Livestrong wristbands now!

[Rusty]

It's big news to anyone who doesn't really follow cycling, i.e. most of the public. LA was the top of his sport for so many years and he rose so high that he has a long way to fall... Yes, it would seem that most people in the sport back then did it - his team mates have all made plea bargains to rat him out and there are so many people who have been thrown out over the years that you could make up several dirty teams from them. Even over the last few years, there have been high profile scalps in the form of Contador and Schleck. Hopefully, this will put more pressure on the modern riders to be clean and more shame on those who are found out.

[Dan]

Don't see why he gets in the paper.

I take drugs and ride my bike all the time.

Don't do much for performance, but it's a **** load more fun after a couple of joints.

[Tango23]

Agree with all the comments, but why give this 4ssclown a soapbox further exposure??? The media are simply fueling tempers whilst the story is replayed several times.
The hype will create another year or so of finger pointing instead of knuckling down and sorting out the management of the sport!

[Rikki Kitto]

They should get em all on it be much better to watch

[vonbeck]

I used to do semi pro cycling about 25 years. Ago and to be honest there was quite a lot of it going on then that i knew about, so it's no surprise to me really the only surprise is how long it's taken to come to light today with all these new performance enhancing drugs and blood transfusions you need a doctorate in medicines.


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[djh]

Well for him and from the comments online I doubt its both balls

[Rocco]

A little of meth is always welcome

[sidrick]

Personally I find it news-worthy. It's akin to Man Utd admitting they have been involved in match fixing for the last 10 years.

Again, personally, I don't feel that a soldier dying in Afghanistan (somewhere he chose to be and was paid to be) is front page news. Not saying the LA thing is more important at all. Neither event really effects my life tbf.

[Dan]

A little of meth is always welcome

I hear everyone on the dremel circuit is doing it.

[djh]

lmao

[DeanG]

It's probably a good thing that there is so much publicity, if it means that other riders are named and shamed. On one hand I somehow feel sorry for the guy, as he has been made a scapegoat, but on the other hand he is showing no remorse. There is no doubt in my mind that he was and may still be great athlete.

[benntenn67]

...... and not to mention that he kept on telling bloody big fibs about it all

[mackenzie50]

From what I can garner- it's the appalling bullying that he insisted upon- his special thug lawyer team carried out his persecutions on all who dared cross him,answer back,or speak out against him-from the highest to the most lowly,in the sport, or anywhere else for that matter. I usually have a sly liking for folk who fall out of the sycophantic media's favour ..you know..the build 'em up, then knock 'em down ****,... but LA would appear to be too far beyond the pale (a bit like a certain DJ..!)