Let’s get ready to…
Lemond and Trek went into arbitration earlier this week and an agreement could not be reached, which means the mother of all cycling trials will happen some time in 2010. As reported by Reed Albergotti of the Wall Street Journal, Armstrong’s ex wife Kristin attempted to quash her subpoena. That motion has failed and she will have to testify. Kristin was represented by Lance’s attorney Tim Herman in the motion to quash the subpoena.
Remember what David Walsh said about a damning story about a fridge and John Korioth? What needs to stay cold? And does Kristin Armstrong know about the contents of her refrigerators?
Beer. My effing beer. That’s what needs to stay cold.
Greg should’ve shut up about doping in sport, and taken the destruction of his company because he did so with a “Ah, shucks” attitude.
You people just hate the thought of accountability don’t you?!
“Anger consumes the vessel that contains it.”
– Rubin Hurricane Carter
Is it ego driven or just 1 big baby who needs a court to state he is right or wrong? Life is way too short to hold that type of grudge.
When Armstrong was planning his return to cycling, he was essentially rebuilt with superior drugs manufactured by Brisol-Meyers-Squibb during his post-cancer days. Drugs so innovative, there were no tests for them at the time, possibly CERA or a high-level serum that was 5-10 years ahead of the draconian WADA and IOC. Once his credibility as a super athlete was established, there was no turning back and the super PR machine kept the lie going, with pay-offs, threats, etc.
It’s no secret that BMS is a major contributor to his foundation, including the Tour of Hope, etc. His fall from grace could be ugly, and a lot of careers will be ruined, but it’s very likely he will come out of this unscathed and guys like Carmichael and Johann will take the fall.
Just a theory, but you read it here first. OK LanceLovers, flame on.
-Cancer Loving Mother Flocker
should get off his high horse, casue, you know, he doped too.
Eddy Merckx ate a live Swiss child during the 69′ Tour. The child was from the Alps and his soingeur admitted to French press that he stole the 8 year old from an alpine village, known for producing children with exceptional red blood cell counts, the day before, placed the animal in Merckx’s musette, and watched as “The Cannibal” swallowed the boy whole during the neutralized feed. Raymond Poulidor witnessed this as well, but he was afraid of his doping (methamphetamine prior to the stage) coming to light, so he remained quiet.
It’s true, my cousin heard it from some guy in a cafe in Amsterdam.
Lol- I like the Swiss child theory! Wait, I was born in 1969 – was that my long lost Swiss twin that he ate?! I hate you Eddy. Lars had his whole life ahead of him.
I heard it was a Peruvian child. Told to me by my friends half-sister at an empanada place in Lima.
What flavors does Hator-Ade come in. Seems you’ve tried them all.
What flavors does Hator-Ade come in. Seems you’ve tried them all.
Anne Gripper says:
The federations have to trust the review that has been conducted by our experts. Normally we give them a piece of paper from the lab that says, we’ve found EPO or Nandralone, but instead we’re giving them a statement signed by three experts with data and rider profiles. We expect them to trust us.
Just trust them eh! puhleese! If it’s not i=understandable to anyone, but wxperts, I see some serious legal problems for the “Blood Passport” project.
http://www.cyclingnews.com/features/exclusive-anne-gripper-breaks-silence-on-blood-passport
always try’n to do me in
It seems as if Lance has been consistently able to bully people with his lawyers. I remember Simioni claiming that Lance told him “I have a ton of money and my lawyers will bury you”…or words to that affect when he chased him down at the Tour. Now Lance will have a real legal fight on his hands. I believe that Lemonds lawyers will leave no stones unturned during this trial. Any attempts by the Lance camp to get ahead of the story, like they did with Ferrari, will fail. Besides, anything they put out publicly will simply be more fodder for Lemonds lawyers at trial. I think Lance has finally found someone just as stubborn and just as driven as him. Lemond will not back down and he has the financial resources to take Lance to the mat. Lemond has nothing to lose in this battle except a few million $$$ in lawyer fees. The discovery phase of this trial could go for a long time. I just wonder if Lance has enough fingers and toes to keep all the rocks out there unturned. Trek and Lance should have let the contract with Lemond run its course….
you think Lemond has the money and power to go after armstrong and win?? He will not and can not even come close. He’s a has been loser with nothing better to do with himself.
Oh Yeah Lemonds a “loser”. If you think there is no merit to this case then it won’t clear pretrial hurdles. As far as Lemond having the money to go after Armstrong…yes he does. When you have the money…you have the power. Mix in the truth and Pharmstrong has alot to worry about. He better ink the deal on his movie before the testimony starts flying in this case.
It’s not the crime, it’s the coverup. No one has ever been tried for perjury in an arbitration case, but this is federal court. Do you think Stephanie McIlvain, who lied in the SCA arbitration case, will lie in federal court and go to jail for Armstrong? When she already contradicted her own testimony on tape?
Armstrong has and will bribe and intimidate people to lie for him, but this time it’ll be different. This time these people will be facing jail time if their caught in their lies.
Boonen, out of Tour de France. Maybe Lefevre should sue the person responsible, Tom Boonen-Tom Boonen-Tom Boonen…(instead of tretnin Le Tour…which we all know, you lose when you do that…)
I wonder it there are betting lines on doping/scandal during the Tour?
1st drug bust?
1st crash?
1st abandon?
1st wheelsucker?
Interesting. It would take a real sociopath to expose the mother of his children to jail time, especially when he himself is under no legal jeopardy in this case.
he already went through all this when he wasnt paid for his tour win, he won that case and even got more money than originally intented.
A giant insurance company couldnt take him down, Lemond sure as shit cant take him down. What’s different now then in the past?
There is a high likelihood that Lemond’s lawyers have accepted the case on a contingency basis, where they don’t charge their normal hourly rate, but instead see 30% of any successful settlement.
That is a common arrangement when an individual brings a case against a big financially sound target such as Trek as a defendant.
The fact that it has gone this far is a good indication that Lemond’s team are not looking to settle for anything less than the big payoff.
I guess QuickStep’s check to the Amaurys was not big enough.
The tour win case was won on a technicality. Lance proved that his contract did not forbid him to dope. He proved that the contract simply said he had to win. Therefore he was under no obligation to address the doping allegation one way or another.
This case will be much more tricky to defend.
“What’s different now then in the past?” how about perjury this time around = jail. If a U.S. attorney looks you in the eyes and says, “If you lie to me today…you are going to jail”, people tend to fess up. People lie all the time to protect their careers. People do not lie when jail time is on the table. The government has limitless resources and do not underestimate the political capital a U.S. attorney could get from this case. National headlines = a fat job at a private law firm. So if ANYBODY in this case wants to test fate…good luck and say hello to Roger Clemens for me when you get to jail.
Too bad this suit is coming now… Trek’s market share has severely declined thanks to the likes of Specialized. I hope Lemond gets paid and gets to poop in Armstrong’s golden crapper. I also hope Armstrong is forced to wrench at Bicycle Sport Shop as a result of this suit and his loss of financial security.
It’s a lawsuit, Vanilla GU for brains. It’s not a federal case. Theoretically the government could pursue a lawsuit for perjury in a civil suit, yes. Though if they did that for a living every single divorcee in America would be in jail.
just thinking if this site was a transcript in a federal case…
wheelsucker: 1st!
wheelsucker: sandbagger
schmalz: from Iowa, avg watts 35
wheelsucker: doper
Mmmm.. vanilla Gu
according to 2:59, schmalz would go to jail for perjury. (he’s a jersey boy.)
Wait – am I jersey boy or an Iowa transplant?
the new Sioux City, Hormel, Canned Spam, kind of Jerziboi!!!
Once a Hawkeye, ALWAYS a Hawkeye…
Unless you’re a cyclone, then you can’t spell Hawkeye.
Or a Badger, and you could care less.
If you’re a badger you’re too drunk and full of cheese to care.
Exactly!! So you’ve been to Madison? Care for a game of Beer Pong?
I’ve never been to Madison, but I have spent time in Dickeyville.
issat like Bulkake?
Schmalz, what you do behind your bedroom doors is your own business, but please don’t drag the Dairy state into it.
Hmmm. Not familiar with Dickeyville. Must be close to Dubuque? SW Wisconsin?
Dickeyville is a poor man’s Potosi.
Ha, OK. So basically you know all the small towns in Wisconsin along the Mississippi. Let me guess, these are the towns where you made you runs to get 3-2 beer when you were under age?
Potosi is known for it’s lead mine museum. Dickeyville is know mostly for corn and now meth I believe. Platteville had the Farm and Fleet. I could go on, but a driving tour of South West Wisconsin is exactly as exciting as it sounds.
And you didn’t need to go the Wisconsin for beer, Dubuque Star was $5 a case.
all this hick talk makes newark sound exotic.
I think you just dated yourself. When did they stop making Dubuque Star beer?
What was that beer that they used to make, I think in Minnesota? I remember the TV commericals – “…from the land of clear blue water..” The commercials had a cartoon bear jumping into a lake.
Missy Dude!
http://msn.foxsports.com/other/story/9696520/Ex-mountain-bike-champ-Giove-hit-with-drug-charge?GT1=39002
That was Hamms – the beer refreshing my friend….
From the Land of Sky Blue Waters,
From the land of pines’ lofty balsams,
Comes the beer refreshing,
Hamm’s the beer refreshing.
Brewed where nature works her wonders,
Aged for many moons, gently mellowed,
Hamm’s the beer refreshing,
Hamm’s the beer refreshing.
From across the rippling water,
Through the whisp’ring pines and birches,
Comes the beer refreshing,
Hamm’s the beer refreshing.
Comes a call to cool enchantment,
Comes a call to cool refreshment,
Hamm’s the beer refreshing,
Hamm’s the beer refreshing.
Hints of lakes and sunset breezes,
Dance and sparkle in each glassful,
Hamm’s the beer refreshing,
Hamm’s the beer refreshing.
You don’t remember the Hamms bear?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc7HoWEk6y8
Wow! That was a total flashback. I just couldn’t remember the name of the beer. Probably had too many Hamms. The commercial from my youth was in color. This one I think.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zYzqrh-_UQ
But, yeah that was the song!
Not only is it not a “federal lawsuit” if they start asking Lance’s wife about unrelated stuff, like what she knows about doping, it will be objected as irrelevant to the case, and it is, it is a contract dispute, and she won’t even have to speak about it. Same with anyone. Lemond needs to prove that his contract was voided against its terms- which I am sure no one here knows the details of. How LA doping relates to that is far fetched and if Lemond’s lawyers try to bring it in, it will get shot down. A technicality for all the Lance haters, but the truth.
I don’t think Lemond is out to prove that Armstrong was doping. He lost his bike brand, a huge source of his income. It had to do with the fact that Lemond accused Armstrong of doping, and Armstrong pushed Trek to abandon Lemond Bikes, so it will be brought up. But Lemond is out for a cash settlement first and foremost.
But, doping and Armstrong will be brought up in the case, and the discussion will be allowed to a certain extent.
Hey USADA way to go, you are catching the dopers. My college roomate was right about those brownies, man we could play videogames for hours jacked up on the stuff. And the snowboarder popped for doping at the winter olympics a few years back. It’s defintiely a PED, dude!
cheech & chong rode a smart race.
For this case, it doesn’t matter “why” LA persuaded Trek to break contract, but “if”. That has to be the crux of the case. Even if LA did it because he doesn’t like the way GL looks, it doesn’t matter, because the contract was not with LA, but with Trek, so he has to prove that Trek dropped him and broke the terms of the contract. Again, if they bring up doping, it is a so what to the case and will take away from his case.
lemond should just move on, build his brand himself, have ’em made overseas or something. heck, employ the recently fired cannondale workers. sponsor some new generation of riders. he’ll sell plenty. sign me up, i’ll buy one! i always wanted to buy one before, but they were made by trek, which is why i didn’t.
the guy knows a thing or two about how to design a good bike. i had an older generation steel lemond and it was awesome.
Pharmstong is a sociopath who will expose the mother of his children to a prison sentence for perjury. The guy who posted this couldn’t be more right. Pharmstrong is done and there will be much gnashing of teeth.
word assoc…
Lance?
Greg?
Dan?
Andy?
Somebody?
Anyone?
Lance? Andy.
Greg? Lance.
Dan? _____.
Andy? Lance.
the mother of his kids? How about his kids? Last fathers day this guy was in new york going to iron maiden concerts with Kate Hudson and then shagging her in her manhattan townhouse…..sounds like a guy who retired to spend more time with his family…hasn’t he embarrassed his exwife enough with all the skanks he has been running around with? when they got divorced she went out and retained the best divorce lawyer on the planet for a reason.
I hate everything that Lance Armstrong stands for. I hope he goes down and is exposed for the true a$$hole he really is. EPO be damned. He wasn’t a real champion. A$$hole, yes. Champ? Nope. Or perhaps the better word is… dope.
The court’s docket for the Lemond v. Trek case (08cv1010, D. Minn.) contains this very interesting submission (dated 9/3/08:
Notice of Appeal
Jonathan Lee Riches moves to appeal the denial of his rule 24 intervention to the Court of Appeals.
I was denied due process and my 1st amendment right to free speech was violated. I have information on Greg Lemond. I met Greg Lemond in a MSN chat room in 2000. We instant messaged each other for 4 months, exchanging pictures and sending each other gifts. Lemond sent me flowers, speedos, wax treatments and poems. In Feb 2001, I met Greg Lemond at a Chicago Illinois EconoLodge. We had an intimate relationship. Greg Lemond told me personally he did steroids before the mountain stages in the last 2 tour De France races he won. He also told me he had a secret compartment in his bicycle during his tour de France races he would apply “the cream” and Hgh he had stored in his bike. Lemond told me he hired hitmen to sabotage other riders bikes during the race. Lemond also had secret affairs with the flowergirls after he won each race. Lemond tried to shave my legs with a trek razor at the EconoLodge, he also forced me to wear a Lance Armstrong mask for him while I was handcuffed to the bed. My civil rights were violated by Lemond. He is sending me threatening letters to FCI Williamsburg in solitary confinement and writing negative articles about me on google, and selling t-shirts of mine on cafepress. I appeal this case.
Jonathan Lee Riches # 40948-018
FCI Williamsburd PO Box 340
Salters, SC 29590
843-387-9400
______________________________________________
Which all goes to show you shouldn’t believe everything you read in a lawsuit.
OK, I thought that was an odd joke until I realized it wasn’t:
http://tinyurl.com/n4qxnu
[redirects to http://docs.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/minnesota/mndce/0:2008cv01010/97295/38/%5D
handwritten, too, that’s awesome (said like the dude in old school w/ the tranq dart)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Lee_Riches
“Some of Riches’ defendants are not even people or potentially suable. These include “Adolf Hitler’s National Socialist Party” and the “13 tribes of Israel”.[21] One lawsuit, which includes George Bush, also includes another 783 defendants that cover 56 pages. They include Plato, Nostradamus, Che Guevara, James Hoffa, “Various Buddhist Monks”, the Lincoln Memorial, the Eiffel Tower, the USS Cole, the book Mein Kampf, the Garden of Eden, the Roman Empire, the Appalachian Trail, Plymouth Rock, the Holy Grail, the dwarf planet Pluto, and the entire Three Mile Island.[22]”
Can’t be trusted with typewriters or computers in prison.
Clearly influenced by Borges (as are we all, of course).
really? i woulda said hank miller
Resistance is futile. All your Pharmstrong are belong to us.
http://j.b5z.net/i/u/2132106/m/gregstef.mp3
that last mp3 call below puts in a very interesting perspective…
woman: “now, between you and i everything i say is not gonna be repeated to anybody, right?”
lemond: “it won’t be repeated, and i..”
woman: “promise me that. am i being taped right now, or is your wife writin’ down anything?”
lemond: “no, you’re not. and my wife is…uh, she is sitting there, i mean, but she’s just, she’ll leave the room if you want…”
woops….
too L(em)ong, didn’t listen.
hop to what time to hear some goodies?
sick new captcha!
“Ivan’s last name:”
the terrible
that’s effed up to lie and record a convo.
it’s funny .. obstinately, obsessively driven to achieve a goal at whatever cost. who does that describe? walsh, lemond, armstrong – no wonder they hate each other – they are all cut of the same cloth. luke, i am your father.
like stately, plump buck mulligan said about stephen dedalus: “Because you have the cursed jesuit strain in you, only it’s injected the wrong way.”
Has anyone been following the “Yellowstone” saga which Greg Lemond started? If it wasn’t for that suit I would think he was a dummy but the guy knows what he’s going for and I strongly suspect he’s gunning for Armstrong and that he will get him. I don’t think he cares for the doping facet but that will be a bi-product of this suit.
On the Armstrong front you can tell by the way that L.A is twittering like a maniac about the journalistic capabalities of the WSJ that he’s concerned about something. Why else would L.A be going so far after what he calls “C-level journalism”
I suspect L.A is going down and he knows it.
go to 20:21, and proceed from there…
“carmichael is, he’s a whore.”
so does that mean pimpstrong bitch slaps chris on occasion?
“my problem with that whole, i mean, i have studied physiology for my whole career, and i know watts and i know rpm’s, and carmichael’s one of the least knowledgable people about training. and he is, he, he’s basically using ferrari for explanation. but, i mean, the sad fact is that lance’s physiology, his vo2 max is 82. i had a 93 v02 max, that’s 15% higher, and it doesn’t matter how hard lance trained. you know, if you rode l’alpe d’huez a hundred times, you’re limited by your oxygen intake. so somehow he’s increased his oxygen by 30 to 40 percent, and that’s how he’s doing it.”
interesting stuff.
context of the mp3 i posted can be found here:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5508863
thanks. who are you?
just a local wheelsucker.
Moved to Off Topic
He lies right at the beginning of the mp3. If the guy will lie to that end what else will he lie about to achieve his goal? I no longer trust him after hearing that.
I think the added drama is great! The case should run parallel to le Tour so we can watch both on TV at the same time, we just need CourtTV to get the schedule right. Then we need the case to be held in France so they can get Lance at a late night questioning court session, after a stage or the rest day.
I think if Lemond wins it, Lance will then go on to prove that Lemond’s mitochondria were so doped up that that caused his below par performance after Lemond’s first Tour win. Getting the mitochondria to re-activate required more EPO. I think that will be Lance’s first Nature paper in the making (research joke in case some of you didn’t get it).
Lemond is petty
Dear Sirs:
I am writing in response to the article written by Reed Albergotti which inaccurately and ineptly described what Mr. Albergotti perceived as an
ongoing feud between Greg LeMond and me. In general, the article fell far short of minimum journalistic standards on many levels. The article was egregiously one-sided, omitted essential material facts and contained many facts which Mr. Albergotti knew, or should have known, were either false or highly questionable.
As reflected in the LeMond sworn testimony I furnished you, the conversation of August 1, 2001, described by Albergotti was not during LeMond’s bike ride with George Mount. Both LeMond and his wife who claims she took notes of the conversation, testified that they were in their car on the way home from the Minneapolis airport during the call. During the call itself, LeMond told me he was on a lake somewhere in Minnesota. While LeMond’s whereabouts is of no concern to me or presumably anyone else, it is illustrative of the absurdity of LeMond’s claims in a wide range of matters.
Initially, I cannot overemphasize the fact that there is no feud between LeMond and me. I have had no contact with him and certainly have much more productive work to do than to feud with Greg LeMond. His lawsuit concerns a business relationship with Trek, not me. The “battle” has not been “playing out in federal court”; to the contrary, I have not been involved in any such proceedings because I know nothing about his relationship or dispute with Trek other than some initial press reports when he filed his case some time ago.
Had I been responsible for Trek’s conduct, I would be a defendant in the case; had I “maliciously interfered” with any of his business interests or done anything to injure LeMond, his brand or his reputation, I would be a defendant in the case. I am not. The “explosive charges” in LeMond’s court papers were obviously included purely for effect, as there is no basis to anything he has said about me in some time. Why he chooses to write and talk about me is anybody¹s guess.
In short, Greg LeMond is involved in several “feuds” – primarily with business relationships which have gone sour. He was sued by LifeFitness just last week in an effort to terminate a contract for his exercise bicycle, which has proven defective and apparently caused LifeFitness a great deal of money and inconvenience. He has also been involved in lawsuits to terminate relationships with his long-time manager and other partnership entities. He may be in a feud with me, but I am not involved in a feud with him; I am focused on cancer survivors, their families, and my return to cycling.
Very truly yours,
Lance Armstrong
Dear Sirs:
In my dreams I am handcuffed to my special Giro bike and forced to watch T.J. Hooker re-runs featuring Adrian Zmed.
Yours Truly,
Dance Armstrong
Lemond might not be such a crackpot after all:
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/rooks-admits-to-epo-use
1988 polkadot jersey winner and two other former Dutch riders reveal their use of EPO
Steven Rooks, runner-up to Pedro Delgado at the 1988 Tour de France, has admitted resorting to performance-enhancing drug EPO during his career. In a book entitled “Het laatste geel” [The last yellow – ed.] published this week by Dutch journalist Marc Smeets, Rooks said that he used EPO after 1989.
“Yes, I’ve taken EPO. It was necessary to finish high up in the classification,” Rooks said.
The Dutchman won the mountains jersey at the 1988 Tour on top of finishing second overall and winning that year’s stage 12 to L’Alpe d’Huez. In 1989, he came seventh in the overall classification and won another mountain stage.
Rooks’ other career highlights include Liège-Bastogne-Liège in 1983 as well as Amstel Gold Race in 1986. From 1986 to 1989, he rode for the PDM team, later for Panasonic, Buckler, Festina and TVM.
Two other former riders of the same generation, fellow Dutch men Gert Jakobs and Matthieu Hermans, have also admitted using the drug. Hermans also won a stage in the 1989 Tour, stage 11 from Luchon to Blagnac, as well as ten stages of the Vuelta a Espana.
The fridge? Here you go:
http://forums.roadbikereview.com/showthread.php?p=2221209&mode=threaded#post2221209
lets say you are staying at your rich actor friends beach house and you decide it is time to dump your wife. You are rich and famous now and you see there are lots of women who look like your mom who want to date you.
Of course your wife goes nuts, grabs the kids and the nanny and takes off. You are concerned that she is going to do something bad so you call your close buddy, everyone calls him Highschool, and tell him to dump the EPO in the fridge so she can’t get a hold of it.
Wouldn’t it suck if someone who was there told someone about it? It would really suck if that person had taped the conversation because that is what he does for living.
The good thing is you gave your ex $11 million so you hope she will lie in court for you.
But… LeMond definitely didn’t need any extra juice to beat a guy on EPO… or a guy on steroids and cortisone. LeMond had a genetic gift.
If you haven’t listened to this yet you need to listen to this NOW, before the file is deleted.
http://j.b5z.net/i/u/2132106/m/gregstef.mp3
My favorite part:
Livingston: “What a pansy”
And yes, it is fucked up that he recorded her, but guess what? Bitch went and lied under oath. I’m sure she’s going to be subpoenaed for this next trial. This is going to be fun.
Doesn’t anyone see the irony here (wait, maybe it’s not irony, but the creepiness of situational repetition)?…what if ex-Mrs.Armstrong actually took pics of EPO in the fridge, a la Papp vs. Leogrande? The only difference being that Leogrande didn’t pay Papp $11million to keep quiet.
First wife Kristin was a babe. Lance is an idot.
Karma’s a beeyatch. It’ll be comin’ round the mountain someday…
on the tape, did those two really wonder aloud about what George Hincape’s baby was going to look like “because of the drugs?” first of all, i wasn’t aware of EPO having that effect and secondly, teratogenicity doesn’t work that way.
Do not forget. Lance was a Federal Employee when he raced for US Postal.
hey idot the team was partially sponsored by usps. nobody was a federal employee. http://www.justthefactsjack.a**clown.com
So…. When does this end? I mean, I hate Armstrong… haaaaaate him. Not for being the douchebag arrogant athlete, those guys never go away. Seriously, can someone just make this stop?
And 9W is not boring, it’s really boring.
ARMSTRONG RELEASES *NEW* STATEMENT!
WILL HOLD PRESS CONFERENCE TOMORROW MORNING!
http://tinyurl.com/klop5r
Are mooseknuckles kosher? Probably not, its always the tastiest treats that are forbidden…
Betsy Andreu, the wife of a French cyclist and one of Armstrong’s strongest detractors, claimed in a deposition that Armstrong signed onto her AOL account and sent emails under her name. And he’s not just on email: He’s everywhere!
“I think [Armstrong] has hacked my computer and we are currently suing America On Line to find the IP address of who hacked my computer. … Lance wanted to control everything; anything anyone might say about him and he was ready to do anything to do it.” According to Mrs. Andreu, her computer wasn’t the only one Armstrong had hacked. She claimed in her SCA deposition in January 2006 that former Oakley sports marketing manager Stephanie McIlvain thought that Armstrong had hacked her computer and had placed a bug in the computer of his ex-wife Kristin as the couple was going through their divorce.
“Stephanie told me that [Armstrong] told her he put a bug in Kristin’s computer and every word she typed was sent directly to him. Stephanie was scared that Lance had also hacked her computer.” Although AOL refused to cooperate with Ms. Andreu, she told Mandard the she next intended to take the matter up with the Justice Department.
Lance is really the bastard son of Eddy Merckx.
His mother is a random podium girl from one of his Paris Roubaix victories.
oh god, here we go again with the secret lemond recording. where did I first hear this, was it matt decanio’s black holicopter/9-11 inside job/lance doped websites?
Dickeyville is a poor man’s Potosi.
We don’t just roll up to the start line, compare VO2max numbers and then go home.
Frank Shorter’s VO2max was supposedly “only” 71mL/kg/min. He won Gold in the Marathon at the ’72 Olympics and Silver at the ’76 Olympics. I think only the Swedes had figured out blood doping at the time.
LeMond would string Shorter up by his toes if he knew that little fact. No way someone as genetically un-gifted as Frank Shorter could possibly win on the international stage without doping… right?
To meet a cycling legend is a memorable day for any biker. To meet the rider who turned victor in the most amazing dogfight in the Alps in the 1989 Tour de France is a great day.
Lemond is a hero. Anyone who remembers his attacking riding style through out the 1980s would have stood with the hundred others cyclist who lined up for their photo to be taken with the ex world champion. Greg and his supporters were about to partake in a charity ride but he still, with his wife had time to chat about the BikePure campaign.
After winning the Tour de France in 1989 and again in 1990, Greg entered the 1991 season in the best form of his life. Early power testing illustrated this was to be another victorious year.
It was not to be. In the best shape of his life all that he could muster was 7th. Riders that he could ride off his wheel were leaving him for dead. This was a sad and common experience for many clean riders as they entered the decade of EPO. A decade where champions where defeated and doctors were the most crucial team member.
Doping has cast a heavy shadow over our sport for over 50 years. Generations have been affected- Lemond, like us wants just to protect the next generation from the plague continuing.
He is out spoken and this coupled with his run in with Lance Armstrong have turned a few off him. But I witnessed a man with a genuine love for the sport. A biker who knows what is (and has) going on in the inner circle of the sport and has proposed functional methods to clamp down on some of the cheats destroying cycling. He seems frustrated with the lack of openness and willingness to listen to those who make the critical decisions. His proposals on Vo2 level testing have been supported by some of the UCI’s own doctors as a more efficient method to flush out the dopers. Greg has long voiced the opinion that it is the system, not the tempted riders that need shook up. Removing the infrastructure allowing riders to obtain and implement performance-enhancing drugs
Regardless of your personal view on the man, he is a legend, his palmers and the memories he gives to a generation are sensational and he is working to protect the sport for the future.
Our Lance, who art in France,
Hallowed be thy Tour.
Thy campaign’s begun,
Seven you’ve won,
But this year will be your hardest.
Give us this day our daily tweet,
And forgive Alberto for pimping,
Himself to Sideburns or anyone out there.
And lead Horner back into the fold,
Since that Levi guy, he’s getting old.
For thine is the Livestrong,
The wristband, and the 501(c)(3),
At least until the IRS comes after you.
Amen.