Contador - I Will Never Admire Armstrong - Page 2

Interesting comment from Axel Merckx.
Hats off to @lancearmstrong. Always in full control for 3rd place.He definitely earned more respect if that was at all possible.

Papers are saying AM wrote this as well.
RT @axelmerckx: A champion is also measured on how much he respect his teammates and opponents. You can win a race on your own not a grand tour.

Funny, on last nights Tour coverage there was an long interview with Contador and during the section where he was rambling on about his return from his brain aneurysm operation he kept saying that Armstrong was his inspiration and someone he looked upto...

... and 24 hours later we get this.

The Spanish are as fickle as the French it would seem... Well, almost.

Looking up to Armstrong stopped when Contador came out of his room to go to the Annecy time trial and found the team gone. The team vehicles that were supposed to have taken him to the start had been sent by Armstrong to an airport to pick up Armstrong's friends and family. Contador had to call his brother to get transportation to the race.

Then there was Armstrong not showing up at the team's post-Tour celebration. Heck, Armstrong refused to the drink the champagne toasting Contador's win. And then there was this classy performance on the podium in Paris.



That expression just says it all.

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"You are like the wind and I like the lion. You form the tempest. The sand stings my eyes and the ground is parched. I roar in defiance but you do not hear. But between us there is a difference. I, like the lion, must remain in my place. While you like the wind will never know yours." -- Mulay Hamid El Raisuli, Lord of the Riff, Sultan to the Berbers, Last of the Barbary Pirates

I'm not sure why anyone is surprised; Armstrong is a megalomaniac it has been this way throughout his entire career sine he forcibly took control of Motorolo. There is serious suspicion laid here and elsewhere that he controls the UCI and perhaps the way AFLD mentioned their concern with how the UCI dope tester sat and had tea with Astana for 1hr prior to completing their testing and how UCI brushed over the AFLD out of season shower testing incident, shows this to be true.

If I was Contador, the best would be to shut the hell up and keep winning Grand Tours. Arguing and leaving Armstrong / Bruyneel has been disasterous for pretty much every former team member. Also Contador is a little in the '****' currently as Astana will nto recieve an invite to next year's Tour due to the return of Vinokourov to the team.

Regardless I predict Andy Schleck to RadioShack and a late positive for Alberto Contador from this year's tour!

Well done to Contador, he performed well and its unfortunate to see that because he's a winner he's immediately a doper. Armstrong is a bit of a **** as when he was riding for Discovery it was all about him and screw everyone on the team. Contador has proven himself and was rightfully in the position to be team leader. Ole Armstrong just waltzes in demands the leadership position. Plain and simple, Contador outperformed Armstrong and deserved the win. Hopefully Caisse DS will pick him up, I'm sure he would be welcome there. Should also remember Lance maybe has 2 good years left at best. Those that join him will probably be out in the cold after Lance leaves just as before.

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Contador has been all over the place. Only a few days ago he said all the stuff in the press about him and Armstrong was a lot of nonsense, but since his win has been official he keeps on attacking LA in the press. That is a bit sneeky in my view. I don't think it's wise; he should keep diagreements private or his future team mates won't trust him.

But it's no shock to me that Lance Armstrong is a tough guy who likes to get his own way. Nearly all great champions in every sport have that mentality, such as Michael Schumacher - it's a personality trait of the greats. You have to play hard and rally people to your cause, otherwise you end up like Cadel Evans and his crappy team mates that never help him.

I admire LA's attitude. He is never happy unless he is winning, which is what seperates him from the rest.

Well put Jiffypoop, I don't think it could have come from a more appropriate member of this forum, and the irony is just blinding.

Glad you picked up on that.

But, let's not forget - I make it through my day without having some fancypants bike racer's c*ck in my mouth.

It's awfully nice that you DPF guys get a chance to leave your campaign for secrecy in doping to come and sh*t up someone else's forum for a few posts. Now that's irony.

Strange how you only show up to defend Armstrong. But you admire him for the greater good he does, like his philanthropy, and not because you need a hero to worship, right?

I don't know how a reasonable adult can conclude that Armstrong isn't a fraud.

People who are into the sport of cycling will naturally respect great cyclists. It's a very tough sport that requires huge amounts of training, so for guys like Armstrong who trained harder than anyone else for his 7 tour wins there is naturally going to be huge admiration and respect.

Sports fans always have heros. It's not to do with having someone's **** in their mouth. If you don't like cycling then don't post here.

Says who? Well Lance... And who else? And ...Lance... Any1 else? No just Lance. LAnce said that he trains the most so it is so, the other 200+ Pro Tour pros are lazy bastards that live on pizza and soft drinks, smoke cigars and train twice a week one hour at a time. On a turbo...
You people know **** about cycling except for what LA tweeter feeds you.

Seriously you are over the line. Stop attacking other posters personally, it only shows that you dont have any counterarguments whatsoever. If you keep this on I will ask for you to be banned. We dont need another House in here.

It's widely acknowledged by all professional cyclists that Armstrong rewrote the training manual for the Tour. It's now so difficult to win, thanks to Armstrong changing the rules on what to do to win it, that it will be the only three week Tour that most top contenders will try to win. If they do try to win another Tour, like Menchoff did this year at the Giro, they will come unstuck in France.

I'm sure even Contador would admit that Armstrong revolutionized the training and the intensity of what is required, which he himself has hugely benefited from. All true cycling fans have huge respect for what Armstrong has done.

I'm sure you've seen this doc on his training programme.....

You are not a smart man. You were born that way. Its ok. You be the best you can. You go girlfriend.

You are out of your depth around here tiger.

That expression came when The Tour organisers started to get ready for Rassmuchickens win next year and played the Danish national anthem instead.

Maybe you forget that Lance isn't being paid to ride for Astana... or that he WILL receive a paycheck from his new sponsors.

Champagne?


And you think that it's only Lance in the team that wasn't too happy with Contador? When was the last time you saw a yellow jersey rider crossing the line in Paris without any of his team mates next to him?



... even his chosen and supposedly 'faithful' Spanish team mate had fecked off...