Contador - I Will Never Admire Armstrong - Page 3

I dont like it when people take pikchors out of context. Having said that I dont like pikchors being created with little to no contextual relevance.

To imply the whole astana team loved Lance and hated Contador to the point of avoiding him on the final stage is retarded. Relying on this image as proof is further retardation.

I see you're an American follower of Armstrong who jumped on the bandwagon after he started winning tours. That's cute.

No its not. As a matter of fact Kloeden in a Procycling interview in 2004 criticized Armstrong for this very reason. Because he makes it seems like he is the only one to train. Like he is the only one to do 6 hours rides or ride in the rain. Lots of pros do it, they just dont write books about it for the gullible. Boasson Haggen for example trains in the snow sometimes cos he leaves in Norway and when the roads get ice or its too far below 0 degrees he does cross county skiing instead. I dont think that Lance gets too much snow in Austin now does he? As for his so called revolutionary training, its not "his" its Ferrari's and Ferrari a) had other customers, b) followed very similar methods to Ceccini and both were students of Conconi who used to train Moser... So much for novelty... Read some instead of watchinh bull**** ad-videos. You may learn something...

sure it's tough to win for lance. he had to train harder than everybody else just to compete. i mean, look, how hard can it be to win a grand tour? contador came right off the vacation beach to pick up a giro d'italia victory. i guess lance is just ticked off because he'll now have to train 28 hours a day just to get to alberto's level of fitness.

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"Kick over the statues and the tyrants die. Wave bye bye to their heroes with a hammer."
--The Redskins, Kick Over the Statues

The sour grapes among the Lance fanboys is hilarious - now you're trying to prove that Lance is more popular than Alberto? Is that all you have left?

Alberto won. Lance lost. But Lance fans - being Lance fans - are, of course, entirely unable to accept that Alberto was better than Lance, and so, like Lemond, Walsh, the Andreu's, Simeoni, etc etc etc, Contador must now be personally belittled and torn down.

Pathetic.

He is more popular and respected than AC. You think 500k fans would have lined Ventoux without Lance? Without Lance, Astana probably would have folded a few months ago and puerto would have been crying and whining in Spain in July. He should be thanking Lance instead of criticizing him.

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Lance Armstrong’s Last Words, August 10, 2007 - “We're proud of our record. We won eight Tours, a Vuelta, a Giro and other races and not one positive test," Armstrong said. “I’m not sure if there are many other teams who can say that right now. Couple that with our ethical record, despite all the gossip and nonsense that goes on.”

Yes...
Unless it was the "love" of the French for Armstrong that made them attend en masse...
LA hated in France, Spain, Germany and the list goes on...

LA is a very strange & I think profoundly unhappy man. He doesn't seem to derive any pleasure / enjoyment from his amazing success. He does appear to gain some transitory gratification by sewing discord & 'crushing' his perceived enemies. I used to admire LA a great deal (whatever else you can say about him he is one hellava good cyclist) during the early years of his T de F run but rapidly grew disillusioned as he became crazier & angrier with each passing year. With that in mind this LA vs AC 'feud' was entirely predictable. He was never going to be content slotting into the Astana set up as a domestique for AC - his vast ego just wouldn't tolerate it.

As expected, you've completely missed the point and are proving it for me.

If I promise never to post again will not report me?

Seriously, I have been called all sorts of names because I don't just go along with every mean thing that is said on here about riders. I don't blindly believe LA has not doped. I think based on everything it would be reasonable to think he has. I don't think that the constant ranting about it accomplishes anything. If he is caught and is banned then so be it. Until that happens lets talk about cycling and the races and leave the other mess alone. I just don't understand the way some on here are obsessed with LA and doping.

Somebody has to, as you are unable to prove a point yourself.

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Lance Armstrong’s Last Words, August 10, 2007 - “We're proud of our record. We won eight Tours, a Vuelta, a Giro and other races and not one positive test," Armstrong said. “I’m not sure if there are many other teams who can say that right now. Couple that with our ethical record, despite all the gossip and nonsense that goes on.”

Maybe you were not aware of the feud but it was well-known of people on Tour de France. They saw it on the plane, after the stage,...

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6 +2 (according Ashenden) samples with EPO should have banned Lance Armstrong to start next TDF !

the stage on the place after the stage where the feud was well-known after the plane stage?

give it a break fab, there are other folks who dislike armstrong not just you to carry the flame after the plane on the stage.

Thanks again! Appreciate it. And please keep posting, cause I don't always have the time, and you're doing a fine job.

Do you really think the 500k fans were ther for LA? No one for AC, the Schleck's or the French cyclists? On Alpe D'Huez they have once counted almost 300k fans, and that in the 80's before Armstrong was competing.