I'd luv to see him comeback and win it again next year and then bend over and moon everyone.
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| Author: | Anonymous [ Thu Sep 08, 2005 12:00 pm ] |
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Linky Armstrong Is No Longer Ruling Out a Return By FRANK LITSKY Lance Armstrong may not be retired after all. When he won his seventh consecutive Tour de France on July 24, Armstrong said his career had ended. Now, furious at reports that six of his urine samples from the 1999 Tour tested positive for the banned substance EPO, he said he might come out of retirement and race again. "The chances are not high," he said yesterday by telephone. "There's no number, no percentage I can put on it. Until two weeks ago, they were zero. Now, I no longer rule it out. "This is probably perceived as a joke, and it's not a joke. This is about pride. I can't guarantee I won't go back. I just don't know where it stands at the moment." At the moment, Armstrong, 33, is certainly not in racing shape for the Tour de France, assuming a comeback would include that race. He said cryptically, "The Tour is not the only bike race in the world." Before he was pressed further, he said, "Let's leave it at that." He said: "I've put on a little weight, but I always do. You're so skinny at the end of the Tour anyway. I'm riding now, mostly a mountain bike and not every day, but I exercise every day when I travel." Armstrong rode this year for Discovery Channel, the only team on the European bicycle circuit that is based in the United States. He is a part owner of the team. Dan Osipow, the team spokesman, said Armstrong could get in top racing shape again. "The team's first training camp is in early December in Austin," Osipow said by telephone. "He was planning to show up for that anyway because he lives there and he likes to be with the guys. Now he may ride in that camp with a different thought process." Armstrong said he was angry at L'Équipe, the French sports newspaper, for its report on Aug. 23 that said his urine samples from the 1999 Tour tested positive for EPO, or erythropoietin. Armstrong denied he ever took EPO or any other banned drug, and he has never failed a drug test. EPO increases red blood cells and thus endurance. A test for EPO was not developed until 2000. L'Équipe said there were positive tests from samples taken at the 1999 Tour. But there were questions about whether those samples had been properly preserved and refrigerated and if they were Armstrong's samples. Only B samples were available to be tested, and testing rules require that A, then B samples be tested. In a statement yesterday, Armstrong said, "The recent smear campaign out of France has awoken my competitive side." Later, speaking on a cellphone en route to the airport in Austin, Tex., he said: "When I got off the bike at the end of the Tour, it was finished. It would take something drastic to change that, and what's been going on is drastic. I just don't know where it stands at the moment. "I would have to weigh all the upsides and downsides. What scares me is that would create a full-blown witch hunt. This would give them another year to sabotage the system again, and that's not a good thought. I love my sport. I love racing. I feel I have accomplished enough. "I'm having a good time now. I'm making a difference in my kids' lives because I'm at home every week. I'm making a difference with cancer because I can talk about it more. And it's nice to be in the States." Armstrong 's story - his comeback from testicular cancer that almost killed him in 1996 - is well known. His retirement plans had seemed set in stone. After this year's Tour de France, he would: quit racing forever, continue his relationship with the rock singer (and now fiancée) Sheryl Crow, spend more time with the three children from his former marriage and devote more hours to the Lance Armstrong Foundation for cancer survivors and awareness. He says those plans are up in the air, but for now, Armstrong has other priorities. He flew to Chicago last night for a taping today of "The Oprah Winfrey Show." He will then fly to Mexico City for a speech tonight, "en Español," he said. |
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| Author: | Rev [ Thu Sep 08, 2005 12:51 pm ] |
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I'd luv to see him comeback and win it again next year and then bend over and moon everyone.
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| Author: | Chippy [ Thu Sep 08, 2005 1:07 pm ] |
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I'd love to see him come back next year, win it AGAIN, then find Levy's house and pee on his door |
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| Author: | Rev [ Thu Sep 08, 2005 1:31 pm ] |
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ChipMunky wrote: I'd love to see him come back next year, win it AGAIN, then find Levy's house and pee on his door That's just wrong. 
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| Author: | Rev [ Fri Sep 09, 2005 2:32 pm ] |
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Cycling body says it has no doping evidence against Lance Armstrong GENEVA (AP) -- Cycling's governing body said Friday it had received no evidence of doping by Lance Armstrong and criticized world doping authorities and a French sports newspaper for making allegations against the seven-time Tour de France champion. ``The UCI has not to date received any official information or document'' from anti-doping authorities or the laboratory reportedly involved in the testing of urine samples from the 1999 Tour de France, the cycling federation said. Allegations that EPO was found in Armstrong's 1999 urine samples were first reported by the French sports daily L'Equipe last month. Armstrong has angrily denied the charges, saying he was the victim of a ``witch hunt.'' He questioned the validity of testing samples frozen six years ago, and how the samples were handled. UCI said it was still gathering information and had asked the World Anti-Doping Agency and the French laboratory for more background. It also wanted to know who commissioned the research and who agreed to make it public. ``How could this be done without the riders' consent?'' the UCI said. It also asked WADA to say if it allowed the results to be disseminated, which UCI says is a ``breach of WADA's anti-doping code.'' ``We have substantial concerns about the impact of this matter on the integrity of the overall drug testing regime of the Olympic movement, and in particular the questions it raises over the trustworthiness of some of the sports and political authorities active in the anti-doping fight,'' the UCI said. UCI president Hein Verbruggen has asked for harsh sanctions against dopers and suggested Armstrong should face sanctions if here were shown to be guilty. He also told Friday's Le Figaro that Armstrong had proposed before the Tour that all of his urine samples be kept for tests over the next 10 years. UCI said it was still ``awaiting plausible answers'' to its requests to WADA and the laboratory. ``We deplore the fact that the long-established and entrenched confidentiality principle could be violated in such a flagrant way without any respect for fair play and the rider's privacy,'' it said. UCI singled out WADA president Dick Pound for making ``public statements about the likely guilt of an athlete on the basis of a newspaper article and without all the facts being known.'' It also criticized the article in L'Equipe as ``targeting a particular athlete.'' L'Equipe said it would react of UCI's criticism in Saturday editions. Tour de France organizers had no immediate reaction, spokesman Matthieu Desplats said. Claude Droussent, the editor of L'Equipe, denied his newspaper targeted Armstrong because he is American, and said it would have treated a French rider the same. Armstrong retired after winning his seventh straight Tour title in July, but said this week he is considering a comeback. He plans to attend the Discovery Channel team training camp this winter. http://sports.yahoo.com/sc/news?slug=ap ... &type=lgns |
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| Author: | Levy [ Sun Sep 11, 2005 4:20 pm ] |
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Oh please, that would be too nice. Because french police would put him in jail during the tour... |
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