One month before Cycling Ireland were due to hold a controversial EGM to review their nomination of Pat McQuaid for a third term as UCI president, he has secured the nomination of Swiss Cycling. McQuaid had been told on April 26th that Cycling Ireland wanted to put his nomination to their members in a general ballot on June 15th. In a statement Swiss cycling said, “After having read the lett... »
Seven Time Tour De France Winner, Lance Armstrong made a guest appearance as the drummer for local reggae band Lance Herbstrong during the Austin Reggae Fest on saturday night in Austin, Texas. The band describe their music as ‘Through stream-of-consciousness aural atmospherics, Lance Herbstrong takes you on a trip, sustaining musical momentum with sonic layers propelling the rhythms. The re... »
Lance Armstrong has been forced to pull out of a masters swimming event being held in Austin, Texas this weekend. His withdrawl came after FINA (swimming’s international governing body) wrote a letter to US Masters Swimming requesting that Armstrong be denied entry. FINA released a statement regarding the request on their website: Following reports on the media referring the participation of... »
Forget Iran and them Northern Koreans, ‘Murica has at last identified the real enemy within. BREAKING: Feds will sue Lance Armstrong for using performance-enhancing drugs during Tour de France, sources say — NBC News (@NBCNews) February 22, 2013 Unconfirmed reports that Obama himself is prepping already for the bout against Lancey Perhaps Enda should think about getting involved. »
One of the good things to come out of all of this is that people with the integrity and courage of these two have been thrust into the wider national audience. »
Man mostly defines his own reality. Basic principles of psychology adhere to the rule of interpretation. What and how we think largely form the basis of our own journey through life, regardless of personal circumstances. From how we react to the worst kinds of adversity to how we interpret something like Oprah’s interview with Lance Armstrong, our individual, habitual lines of thinking usually dic... »
Poor Lance Armstrong has a lot on his mind right now. There were the days prior to the Oprah Winfrey interview during which had to estimate how much of the truth he could actually disclose to the world, there are all those people with whom he has to apologise and just think of the monumental effort that it must have taken to get the word ‘sorry’ to come out of his mouth. One of those t... »
The near universal condemnation of Lance Armstrong has finally been stopped and in a weird way it might have been the poems of Patrick Kavanagh or Seamus Heaney that helped Lance get one guy on his side. h/t: Vinny. »
It has been a breathless week in the seemingly eternal tale of Lance Armstrong. Barrels of ink have been spilled, keyboards have been battered to breaking point and some very high-profile writers have had to drastically retreat. Lets start with Friday Night Lights author Buzz Bissinger and lets hop back just five months ago to when Lance announced he would no longer contest the colossal charges of... »
He wasn’t banned at the time, but maybe Lance thought he’d be honest, for once, with his pseudonym Probably not… Results from Cycling Quotient h/t @irishpeleton »
The Lance Armstrong Way is now the Lying Cheat Way. Don’t mess with Texas, folks, especially if you’re from Texas. [h/t Noelle Newton] »
It’s hard to turn on the radio today without hearing David Walsh talking about Lance, but the most important interview that you’ll hear Walsh give today – or possibly ever – was with the BBC World Service’s NewsHour programme. Among other things, Walsh speaks about the two times his efforts to uncover the truth about Armstrong got personal. Both instances reference th... »
In my eyes, the most damning part of the Armstrong farce is not that he held his own sport hostage, but that he so glibly destroyed the lives of women – aka non-competitors – who got wind of his deceit. Betsy Andreu has been incredible in interviews both before and after last night, but such intense the Armstrong-induced hell of her life that she can no longer even sanction the musical... »
