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I'd heard on the radio that he'd confessed to using drugs in all 7 of his competition wins and didn't think all that much of it, because sport is rife with this kind of cheating.

 

However, I've just read about how he handled the many people that called him out about his cheating during his career. He ended up lying (well, of course) and horribly bullying those people, suing them with his powerful legal team in an effort to financially ruin people of much lesser financial means than him in order to shut them up. He degraded them in public and a whole lot more that we'll probably never know about.

 

What a fucking jerk. I wonder how many people will now have the means and the courage to countersue him for the sometimes irreversible damage that he did them? Certainly the big sponsors like Nike are suing him now and rightly so.

 

What gets me is that this was someone who had cancer and really needed all the support and TLC that he could get from his friends and family. He knows what it's like to feel vulnerable and scared - scared for his life - yet he was more than happy to inflict this kind of misery on others.

 

And then he recovered. I'm sure some people wish he hadn't...

 

 

At one point Armstrong addressed Betsy Andreu, the wife of a former teammate Frankie Andreu, who testified that while lying in a hospital bed in 1996 Armstrong told his doctor that he had doped.

 

Over the years Lance and his henchman bullied and bruised Betsy relentlessly. They called her names. They tried to wipe her out. They, according to Betsy, blackballed her husband's career. She kept standing up and speaking out. There was even a voicemail from an Armstrong associate who said he hoped "somebody breaks a baseball bat over your head."

 

Lance knows he was terrible to Betsy so he said he called her the other day to begin making amends. You know for, among other things, calling her "crazy." He decided to tell Oprah about it, including what is apparently his idea of a sense of humor.

 

"I did call her crazy," he said. "I did. I did … I think she'd be OK with me saying this, I said, 'Listen, I called you crazy; I called you a bitch; I called you all of these things, but I never called you fat.' "

 

Read the rest at Yahoo

 

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Note that as doping is rife in all forms of sport, I'm sure that all the other sportsmen and women are at it too, so every time you see a "champion", remember this.

 

The question then becomes: are those people doing the same kind of nasty bullying as Lance Armstrong? I wouldn't put it past them with such big money and careers at stake. This guy simply confessed to it.

[FreedomEclipse]

FRIENDS are valuable commodities in this day and age that cant be bought or traded (theoretically speaking - people will flock to you if you have tonnes of money but which one of them can you call a real friend? If you can 'sell' a friend out then where you ever friends with them to begin with?)

 

Today Lance Armstrong Learnt: He has none

 

 

I sure as hell wouldnt even waste my effort even looking at him if I was a victim of his abuse 

 

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That picture so cracks me up!

 

And such true words, too.

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Not only has be bought shame to the sport - he has shamed himself, his family, friends, sponsors and all the people who stood beside him while he was recovering from cancer.

 

Of course its great that hes finally come clean about it on live tv which is broadcast all over the world but if he thinks that a tv appearance will make everything right again, then he is clearly mistaken.

sure he has achieved a lot in his life but nobody is going to remember him for that, only that he cheated and tried to hide it from the rest of the world.

 

 

If i was one of his kids - Id be ashamed and apply to legally change my last name to something else then live in the shadow of the storm cloud that he bought on by himself.

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If i was one of his kids - Id be ashamed and apply to legally change my last name to something else then live in the shadow of the storm cloud that he bought on by himself.

 

There's nothing wrong with the surname "Armstrong". Take Neil Armstrong, the first person to walk on the moon. I just wouldn't tell anyone that my father is Lance, the cyclist (and dirt-bag).

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If i was one of his kids - Id be ashamed and apply to legally change my last name to something else then live in the shadow of the storm cloud that he bought on by himself.

 

There's nothing wrong with the surname "Armstrong". Take Neil Armstrong, the first person to walk on the moon. I just wouldn't tell anyone that my father is Lance, the cyclist (and dirt-bag).

 

Its when they find out you're related to the guy who cheated then the other armstrong who supposedly faked the moon landing, then thats when the trouble starts

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ohwell whats done is done, Nothing to see here Move Along!

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Well, his kids can keep quiet about who their dad is, but when they're suspiciously good at cycling the secret might out...

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I've put a little update at the bottom of my OP for you peeps to ponder...

[Static~Charge]

Here's another reality check for Lance:

 

Oz library finds Lance Armstrong books a new home: The fiction section

An Australian library has announced it will reclassify books by Lance Armstrong as fiction, the Sydney Morning Herald reports. Book browsers at Manly Library in Sydney wishing to draw inspiration from Lance Armstrong: World's Greatest Champion and other titles by the disgraced cyclist were pointed in the right direction by a helpful sign, a photo of which appeared online over the weekend and quickly proved a web hit.

 

Source: The Register

Edited by Static~Charge, 21 January 2013 - 07:39 PM.