The last two UCI presidents are suing him for âannoyingâ them. Thatâs right, kill the messenger. UCI is a complete jokeshop.
Within the next week Lance Armstrong[/url], the UCI and WADA will be sent a file from USADA in which the American anti-doping agency will detail their "[url=âhttp://www.cyclingnews.com/news/usada-still-finalizing-decision-on-lance-armstrongâ]reasoned decision" as to why they stripped Armstrong of his seven Tour de France titles and handed him a life-time ban.
Armstrongâs ban was brought forward after the former US Postal team leader chose not to fight[/url] [url=âhttp://www.cyclingnews.com/news/armstrong-charged-with-doping-by-usadaâ]USADAâs charges. The exact evidence relating to the case has yet to be released but reports circulated last week that along with testimonies from a number of ex-teammates, USADA are also in possession of positive blood samples. USADA never confirmed as such but what is known is that Armstrong was charged with the use and/or attempted use of prohibited substances; the possession of prohibited substances, drug trafficking, and assisting, encouraging, aiding, abetting, covering up and other complicity involving one or more anti-doping rule violations and/or attempted anti-doping rule violations.
Even so, in a recent interview with LAVA, Armstrong claimed that his conscience was clear, and consistently pushed a for everyone concerned to move on.
âItâs their drama. Not mine,â he told the US publication.
"I was raised in a way, and maybe my mom was this way, and her life wasnât perfect, it was complicated. But she always looked forward. She looked a day, and a month, and a year, and 10 years from now. Some people donât do that. They sit around and talk about the past. You always get high-school friends who sit around and talk about âhey remember that time?â and Iâm like âwhy are you asking me about that?â
âI wake up and my mind and my conscience and my view on my life and my world, my future and my kidsâ future is perfectly clear.â
Armstrongâs decision not to contest the charges was labelled by many as tantamount to an admission of guilt, while even without seeing the evidence, WADA described Armstrongâs decision not to recognise UASDAâs jurisdiction or fight the charges ""means the charges had substance in them. However Armstrongâs resolute stance in public appearances has led to him introducing himself as a seven-time Tour winner and during a recent triathlon in the US he selected the number 7 race number to compete in.
âYeah, others wonât move on. Itâs sad. Iâm aware that itâs out there. Itâs like, why are you continuing? You got what you wanted; Lance Armstrong never did anything in his life. Great. For some, itâs like, shouldnât you be out training and focusing on what youâre doing? Fucking move on. So strange.â
However Armstrongâs own vocal encouragement for everyone to move on is at odds with one element. In July the Wall Street Journal reported that a representative from The Lance Armstrong Foundation discussed the USADA case at Capitol Hill.
According to the Wall Street Journal, âa spokesman for U.S. Rep. JosĂŠ Serrano (D., N.Y.), who sits on the House Appropriations Committee, said his office was visited by a registered lobbyist working on behalf of the foundation, which works to increase awareness of cancer,â and the main purpose of the meeting was to discuss the Armstrong case.
USADAâs case file is expected to reach the UCI by October 15.
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USADAâs report on Armstrong is due to be posted on their website later tonight I think.
Just been talking about it on Newstalk.
Are they going to declare him innocent?
Hincapieâs testimony is damning, not because of what he said but just because he said anything at all. Was reading his statement there and itâs still apologetic and underplaying the whole thing but it absolutely removes any defence that Armstrong could have mounted.
Halfway through Tyler Hamiltonâs book and even knowing about how much doping was going on the book is a real eye-opener. Unfortunately itâs impossible to read the book and have any sort of respect for Rocheâs career move for next season. I hope he fails miserably with Riis and his associations with the McQuaid family would be off better severed too. Not much new about Riis but he has assumed no proper responsibility for the past and has made no effort to clean the sport.
Interesting to see Michael Barryâs name in the testimony today too. Good to see him belatedly telling the truth too but he rather makes a mockery of Skyâs virtue about not hiring any convicted dopers. If Sky were serious about any crusade about doping they wouldnât have hired someone from US Postal - well not one who had never admitted doping anyway.
Wondering has any country ever given two bigger cunts to the world of sport than we have in Pat Hickey and Pat McQuaid.
Some French guy from AG2R tested positive for EPO. They said he took it just the once because he was being let go and needed UCI points.
Are the cycling crowd still suing Kimmage?!
They are as far as I know but they may feel suitably embarrassed now.
Kimmage must be in his element with all this.
Armstrongâs lawyer labelling the report a âtaxpayer funded tabloid pieceâ. In a way youâd admire them sticking to their guns despite being completely overrun many times at this stage. The âtrue believersâ of course will stick with Armstrong even more now.
Has poor Paul Sherwen commented about his fellow prospector yet?
http://velonews.competitor.com/2002/07/news/cycling-biggies-invest-in-ugandan-gold-mine_2563
Former Clare hurler Tony griffin will be removing the foreword and a sizable quantity of text from the next published edition Iâd imagine.
Wiggins is very quiet about the whole thing. He has professed his admiration for Armstrong in the recent past and tonight heâs tweeting about a competition and Wigan Warriors. Itâs like the biggest scandal ever to hit his sport hasnât happened. Not very encouraging when you get the impression so many of the current cyclists are saying nothing until they find out the official stance of the peleton.
Griffin wrote an article recently saying he didnât care whether he doped or not because of all the charity work heâd done
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Griffin wrote an article recently saying he didnât care whether he doped or not because of all the charity work heâd done[/quote]
Laughable stuff. Jimmy Saville was very charitable too.
Ah here, there is a huge difference between a lad taking performance enhancing drugs in a sport where it was endemic long before they got to the top and a padephile who used his public profile and job as a childrens tv host to molest children
His initial story was that Lance said he didnât take PEDs and that he had to take him at his word, in the manner of a four year old child or an imbecile.
In a way I suppose Griffin typifies a lot of the sad cunts who are defending this raging sociopath. They bought into his story having heard just his side of it, and having leapt to his defence they are too invested to back out.
If Tony Griffin says Lance is innocent then that is good enough for me