Tour de Lance gets ripped again

IatricSB · 10-28-2005, 02:47 PM

Leblanc predicts exciting Tour without Lance

Among the low lights...

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Originally Posted by LeBlanc

Leblanc said Armstrong was discredited by allegations printed in the L'Equipe sports newspaper on Aug. 23, which claimed that he used the banned performance enhancer EPO during his first Tour win in 1999. Leblanc said there was relief in the sport that Armstrong will not be returning.

"Without doubt ... what we have learned has increased the lassitude toward him," Leblanc said. "He was not irreproachable in '99. EPO is a doping product. So this tempers and dilutes his performances and his credibility as a champion."

Cardinal Rule · 10-28-2005, 02:52 PM

Well that certainly improves my impression of LeBlanc.

If his intent was to come off as a whiny petty little slug, well bravo! Mission accomplished.

canadiancreed · 10-28-2005, 02:54 PM

gotta love a sport that slams it's most visable and successful participant. Good marketing there pinheads

Cardinal Rule · 10-28-2005, 03:00 PM

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Originally Posted by canadiancreed

gotta love a sport that slams it's most visable and successful participant. Good marketing there pinheads

I'm losin' it!!!

Even Matt LeBlanc would know better than this. I think.

sebastian0622 · 10-28-2005, 03:06 PM

It's like jingoism, only smaller! How quaint!

darkhorse · 10-28-2005, 03:09 PM

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Originally Posted by canadiancreed

gotta love a sport that slams it's most visable and successful participant. Good marketing there pinheads

We are talking about Barry Bonds, right?

canadiancreed · 10-28-2005, 03:10 PM

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Originally Posted by darkhorse

We are talking about Barry Bonds, right?

baseball has more than one. Can you name more than one cyclist?

canadiancreed · 10-28-2005, 03:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Cardinal Rule

I'm losin' it!!!

Even Matt LeBlanc would know better than this. I think.

According to that article, you'd be wrong

darkhorse · 10-28-2005, 03:13 PM

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Originally Posted by canadiancreed

baseball has more than one.

MLB has more than one most successful participant? Seems a contradiction in terms.

canadiancreed · 10-28-2005, 03:17 PM

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Originally Posted by darkhorse

MLB has more than one most successful participant? Seems a contradiction in terms.

find the average Joe and they could probably name five guys that are big names in the game

find the average Joe and ask about some big names in the cycling profession and the list begins and ends at Armstrong

theasfl · 10-28-2005, 03:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Cardinal Rule

Well that If his intent was to come off as a whiny petty little slug, well bravo! Mission accomplished.

you mean a frenchman?

theasfl · 10-28-2005, 03:21 PM

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Originally Posted by canadiancreed

gotta love a sport that slams it's most visable and successful participant. Good marketing there pinheads

he's American...the bulk of the French hate him or have wanted a reason to hate him; They know no one in this country is going to give a damn now that hes retired and if they can appeal to the French again I highly doubt theyll give a damn about us since it takes place in France.

darkhorse · 10-28-2005, 03:21 PM

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Originally Posted by canadiancreed

gotta love a sport that slams it's most visable and successful participant.

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Originally Posted by canadiancreed

find the average Joe and they could probably name five guys that are big names in the game

find the average Joe and ask about some big names in the cycling profession and the list begins and ends at Armstrong

So, now we're up to five?

canadiancreed · 10-28-2005, 03:22 PM

I would say that anyone following the sport would know he's full of ****......but I'm probably too optimistic.

Oh well, considering that without Lance the whole American market probably slowly eroads, although with BS like that it'll dispapear faster

theasfl · 10-28-2005, 03:28 PM

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Originally Posted by canadiancreed

baseball has more than one. Can you name more than one cyclist?

I cant say I can spell all of the but,

Alexandre Vinokourov
Jan Ullrich
Tyler Hamilton
Michael Boogerd
Flyod Landis
Ivan Basso

if it wasnt almost November and I hadnt just woke up an hour ago Id be able to do a little better

canadiancreed · 10-28-2005, 03:38 PM

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Originally Posted by theasfl

I cant say I can spell all of the but,

Alexandre Vinokourov
Jan Ullrich
Tyler Hamilton
Michael Boogerd
Flyod Landis
Ivan Basso

if it wasnt almost November and I hadnt just woke up an hour ago Id be able to do a little better

hmm...you know I didnt expect anyone to be ble to do so. Shows cycling is mroe popular then I figured.

canadiancreed · 10-28-2005, 03:39 PM

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Originally Posted by darkhorse

So, now we're up to five?

hypethical number, you coudl go with one, five, ten whatever. Needless to say that the market for intrest in that sport in probably one of the largest consumer markets were largely due to intrest in Lances career.

Jason · 10-28-2005, 04:10 PM

I really want to see how many people give a crap about the Tour after next year. (Next year will have the "can the American in the field be the next Lance?" angle.)

I say not many will care. And if the French start their jingoistic crap, the interest will wane even faster.

canadiancreed · 10-28-2005, 04:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Dale And Eli's Dad

I really want to see how many people give a crap about the Tour after next year. (Next year will have the "can the American in the field be the next Lance?" angle.)

I say not many will care. And if the French start their jingoistic crap, the interest will wane even faster.

nothing like chopping off the head to spite the face. The fat TV conracts from the States will be a distanct memory in a few years

Vris · 10-28-2005, 04:19 PM

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Originally Posted by canadiancreed

nothing like chopping off the head to spite the face. The fat TV conracts from the States will be a distanct memory in a few years

I'm sorry, but the use of that idiom, in that way, is just hilarious.

Creed, it's chop of the nose despite the face. If you chopped off the head, there would be no more face.

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