Contador - I Will Never Admire Armstrong

It must have been very difficult for Contador; Armstrong against him, Levi against him, Johan wanting Armstrong to win.

The whole world revolves around Lance; gets his own way; arrogant; every decision goes through him. Great rider: Tour de France winner; 7 times; in a row; after cancer. But not a nice person.

You know Lance was only 4th best on the team in the first TT. Contador must have been thinking "Hey what about me?"

Then the spin machine comes out. "Contador did not follow the rules; attacked Kloden." Contador did the right thing; Kloden was cooked. Andy and Frank would have increased the pace at some point and Kloden would have been dropped anyway.

The real Lance is coming out. He is not aging very well.

Alpuerto is a doped up little baby. Is there anyone who likes him? I know Phil and Paul do not. Nor do Levi, Kloden, Lance, Johan, etc.

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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.”

you might want to look at the big picture which is what lance, johan, levi, andreas and the rest of the team do. alberto probably cost andreas a podium spot and astana a 1,2,3 podium. it's no wonder johan has dumped him. it will be interesting to see where he lands, some speculate a spanish team but i expect we'll see him sucking up to Radio Shack in order to ride at the front again.

unless you are either phil (liggett?) or paul (sherwen?), how do you know? same goes for the names you later list. and how can you of all people claim contador is a "doped up little baby" when he's never tested positive for any ped, rides on the same team as the cleanest most tested rider ever, and was hand picked by bruyneel after armstrong had his little "i'm tired of the french not loving me as much as they loved indurain, anquetil, hinault" retirement snit and abandoned bruyneel to his own fate? are you saying that contador is doping behind j.b.'s back?

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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

Hmm, never in my life, I've seen the captain of a team wearing the yellow jersey, pulling the rest of the team, so that they can finish on the 2nd or 3rd spot.

AC DID got the whole picture, and did what he had to do to keep the yellow.

To be honest, I would love to see AC on the saxo bank team

The bitterness from Armstrong about this years tour with regard to Contador stems purely from the fact he (contador) took Armstrong's business model and perfected it. This is over and above the very well established fact Contador was a life long child prodigy of Saiz.

He is not a timetrialler. Its just not physiologically possible IMO. Even when people point to his u23 results you should bear in mind Saiz had the kid from about age 15 or 16. (I stand to be corrected on all of that)

It's shambolic. Armstrong's bitterness is in the fact he probably genuinely believed with the new dope to hit the grounds in 2008 he would roll Contador. Turns out Contador's network is rock solid.

The greatest cheat got out cheated.

I bet it hurts bad. I dont like either of them. Shallow existence.

well put. and chapeau to knonfs for pointing out that the gc contender is not there to pull everybody else up on the podium.

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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

Phil, Paul, Lance, Levi, Johan are all part of the big spin. They form a circle jerk every night at the hotel

Don't forget Bob Roll, who took Armstrong on a weeks-long ride through the woods in early 2008 after Lancypants nearly gave up the sport for a second time.

You know, the weeks that Armstrong was off the radar and out of range of testers before coming back to rejuvenate his career in the Vuelta. Simply amazing, considering he was having issues finishing one-day races in the Spring.

And we all though Armstrong was just a super duper rider from day one on his return from cancer?

It will turn into a soap opera

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Steve
CyclingForums.com

I love that technology gives adults an excuse to act like teenagers.

Before you use words like "perfected" let's see him (AC) win a few more tours!

Maybe he'll sweat a little and - gasp! - even have to sit in the saddle in those future tour wins.

anybody else pissed themselves laughing at this soap opera? armstrong & bruyneel spend all tour taking jabs at contador in public running down his team loyalty and race smarts which never happens during a contest. armstrong does not even bother to congratulate contador on the podium. and now contador responds and armstrong has the nerve to remind contador about "team"? what an unadulterated sniveling ass!

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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

Give him a similar resourced to those that LA had when he won his tours, and I don't see why AC can't win a few more...