Armstrong & Kik to divorce!!

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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Five-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong and his wife have separated
and will divorce.

Armstrong and his wife, Kristin, separated two weeks ago, soon after moving back to Austin from
Girona, Spain. The couple is currently working on reaching a divorce settlement, while maintaining
separate homes in Austin.

``The craziest thing is, we're closer now and better friends than ever before,'' Lance Armstrong
said the Austin American-Statesman in Thursday's editions. ``We're truly committed to maintaining a
good relationship, but not a marriage.''

Lance Armstrong overcame cancer on his way to five Tour wins. When he won his fifth straight Tour in
July he tied the record held by Spain's Miguel Indurain.

``They tried, over the whole summer period, to reconcile,'' Jogi Muller, a spokesman for Armstrong's
U.S. Postal Service team, told The Associated Press. ``But somehow, now in the month after the Tour,
it just didn't work out. They tried probably for the children, for themselves.''

Muller said that the couple had originally planned to stay in Europe through mid-September, but
decided to return home early.

The couple, who have been married for five years and have three children, announced in February that
they had been separated for a month. They later reconciled.

Updated on Thursday, Sep 4, 2003 5:20 am EDT
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Some of us were speculating after seeing the cold way he embraced her at the end of one of the Tour
stages, that the reconciliation wasn't going well.

The questions begs.....will Armstrong negotiate a 10 year "no comment" clause from Kristin a la
David Bowie from his ex? Maybe now the kids will get to meet their DNA donor (grandfather) and great
grandmother.

I'm going to guess she gets in the vicinity of 20 million and the real estate in the US.

"Steven L. Sheffield" <stevens@veloworks.com> wrote in message
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> From:
>
http://sports.yahoo.com/sc/news?slug...v=ap&type=lgns
>
> AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Five-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong
and
> his wife have separated and will divorce.
>
> Armstrong and his wife, Kristin, separated two weeks ago, soon after
moving
> back to Austin from Girona, Spain. The couple is currently working on reaching a divorce
> settlement, while maintaining separate homes in Austin.
>
> ``The craziest thing is, we're closer now and better friends than ever before,'' Lance Armstrong
> said the Austin American-Statesman in Thursday's editions. ``We're truly committed to maintaining
> a good relationship, but not a marriage.''
>
> Lance Armstrong overcame cancer on his way to five Tour wins. When he won his fifth straight Tour
> in July he tied the record held by Spain's Miguel Indurain.
>
> ``They tried, over the whole summer period, to reconcile,'' Jogi Muller, a spokesman for
> Armstrong's U.S. Postal Service team, told The Associated Press. ``But somehow, now in the month
> after the Tour, it just didn't work out. They tried probably for the children, for themselves.''
>
> Muller said that the couple had originally planned to stay in Europe
through
> mid-September, but decided to return home early.
>
> The couple, who have been married for five years and have three children, announced in February
> that they had been separated for a month. They later

> reconciled.
>
> Updated on Thursday, Sep 4, 2003 5:20 am EDT
> --
> Steven L. Sheffield stevens at veloworks dot com veloworks at worldnet dot ay tea tee dot net
> bellum pax est libertas servitus est ignoratio vis est ess ay ell tea ell ay kay ee sea aye tee
> why you ti ay aitch aitch tee tea pea colon [for word] slash [four ward] slash double-you
> double-yew double-ewe dot veloworks dot com [four word] slash

"B. Lafferty" <javaeye@nospamearthlink.net> wrote in message
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> Some of us were speculating after seeing the cold way he embraced her at
the
> end of one of the Tour stages, that the reconciliation wasn't going well.
>
> The questions begs.....will Armstrong negotiate a 10 year "no comment" clause from Kristin a la
> David Bowie from his ex? Maybe now the kids will get to meet their DNA donor (grandfather) and
> great grandmother.
>
>

WHat??? I thought he had his sperm frozen before he had his testicular operations. I assumed his
kids were from his own provates, not his Dad's...

"B. Lafferty" <javaeye@nospamearthlink.net> writes:

> I'm going to guess she gets in the vicinity of 20 million and the real estate in the US.

What? That's all?

She should get at least twice that for putting up with a Wanker like Lance for so many years.

More seriously though, I always wondered how long it would last.

Take a look at the early pix of the lady from way back before they were married.

She looked like a mover and a shaker to me and there wasn't a great deal of her you couldn't see if
you get my drift.

But it shouldn't bother Lance, there's always plenty of Nanas at the bike races.

--
le vent a Dos

Davey Crockett

"James Calivar" <amheiserbush@yahoo.com.au> wrote in news:bj7e1l$ou9$1@home.itg.ti.com:

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>> The questions begs.....will Armstrong negotiate a 10 year "no comment" clause from Kristin a la
>> David Bowie from his ex? Maybe now the kids will get to meet their DNA donor (grandfather) and
>> great grandmother.
>
> WHat??? I thought he had his sperm frozen before he had his testicular operations. I assumed his
> kids were from his own provates, not his Dad's...

Lance refers to *his* biological father as a "sperm donor" as the d00d never claimed him (Lance)
until he became famous. Read his book 'Its Not About the Bike'. Its a quick, interesting read.

- Boyd S.

"Davey Crockett" <DC@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "B. Lafferty" <javaeye@nospamearthlink.net> writes:
>
> > I'm going to guess she gets in the vicinity of 20 million and the real estate in the US.
>
> What? That's all?
>
> She should get at least twice that for putting up with a Wanker like Lance for so many years.
>
> More seriously though, I always wondered how long it would last.
>
> Take a look at the early pix of the lady from way back before they were married.
>
> She looked like a mover and a shaker to me and there wasn't a great deal of her you couldn't see
> if you get my drift.
>
> But it shouldn't bother Lance, there's always plenty of Nanas at the bike races.
>
> --
> le vent a Dos
>
> Davey Crockett

My vague, very vague, understanding of Texas marital law is that Texas is a partial community
property state. She may be entitled to half of all that was acquired during the marriage. 20 million
is probably less than half, but it's always easier to settle as opposed to going to court for trial.
Looks good for five years of effort spent.

But the real question is when Odessa will be on the market again.

"Steven L. Sheffield" <stevens@veloworks.com> wrote in message
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> From:
>
http://sports.yahoo.com/sc/news?slug...v=ap&type=lgns
>
> AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Five-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong
and
> his wife have separated and will divorce.

Sad news for a couple that have been through so much and the fact that there are kids involoved.

I wonder if Lance might have mentioned that if he didnt win the tour this year he would retire, the
thing is with LA is that if he does win 6 it will be hard for him to not try and come back for 7...
and that might have been too big a sacrifise for her.

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> "Steven L. Sheffield" <stevens@veloworks.com> wrote in message
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> > From:
> >
>
http://sports.yahoo.com/sc/news?slug...v=ap&type=lgns
> >
> > AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Five-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong
> and
> > his wife have separated and will divorce.
>
> Sad news for a couple that have been through so much and the fact that
there
> are kids involoved.
>
> I wonder if Lance might have mentioned that if he didnt win the tour this year he would retire,
> the thing is with LA is that if he does win 6 it
will
> be hard for him to not try and come back for 7... and that might have been too big a sacrifise
> for her.

It was "briefly" reported on MSNBC this morning that she blamed the divorce on his celebrity status
related to his cancer comeback.

B-

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> "Steven L. Sheffield" <stevens@veloworks.com> wrote in message
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> >
> > From:
> >
>
http://sports.yahoo.com/sc/news?slug...e&prov=ap&type =lgns
> >
> > AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Five-time Tour de France champion Lance
Armstrong
> and
> > his wife have separated and will divorce.
>
> Sad news for a couple that have been through so much and the fact
that there
> are kids involoved.
>
> I wonder if Lance might have mentioned that if he didnt win the tour
this
> year he would retire, the thing is with LA is that if he does win 6
it will
> be hard for him to not try and come back for 7... and that might
have been
> too big a sacrifise for her.

If there's one thing that is really difficult it's living the life of a multimilloinaire and doing
anything you want. All that sacrifice is hard on a marriage.

"Steven L. Sheffield" <stevens@veloworks.com> wrote in message
news:<BB7C75BB.CD0C%stevens@veloworks.com>...
> From: http://sports.yahoo.com/sc/news?slug...v=ap&type=lgns
>
> AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Five-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong and his wife have
> separated and will divorce.
>
> Armstrong and his wife, Kristin, separated two weeks ago, soon after moving back to Austin from
> Girona, Spain. The couple is currently working on reaching a divorce settlement, while maintaining
> separate homes in Austin.
>
> ``The craziest thing is, we're closer now and better friends than ever before,'' Lance Armstrong
> said the Austin American-Statesman in Thursday's editions. ``We're truly committed to maintaining
> a good relationship, but not a marriage.''
>
> Lance Armstrong overcame cancer on his way to five Tour wins. When he won his fifth straight Tour
> in July he tied the record held by Spain's Miguel Indurain.
>
> ``They tried, over the whole summer period, to reconcile,'' Jogi Muller, a spokesman for
> Armstrong's U.S. Postal Service team, told The Associated Press. ``But somehow, now in the month
> after the Tour, it just didn't work out. They tried probably for the children, for themselves.''
>
> Muller said that the couple had originally planned to stay in Europe through mid-September, but
> decided to return home early.
>
> The couple, who have been married for five years and have three children, announced in February
> that they had been separated for a month. They later reconciled.
>
> Updated on Thursday, Sep 4, 2003 5:20 am

I can see how this conversation went.

Kiki: Lance I am sorry but I just can't take a back seat to your bike for another year. You're going
to have to give a little.

Lance: We have had this conversation a million times before I can't not bike, and I can't bike and
not give it everything I have. you knew what I was when you married me. Hell you were the one who
got me riding again

Kiki: I know, but being one of these stepford wives walsing around Girona trying to make a day out
of going to the park and the market with the kids its killing me.

Lance: I known, but I am a cyclist Kik. The world wants me to be the greatest cyclist in the world,
cancer survivors need me to be the best cyclist in the world, I NEED to be the best cyclist in the
world. That takes sacrifice, you knew this when you married me.

Kiki: and so we go round and round. I love you to death Lance but I need a life. I am not happy
following you and you bike around the world. I am sorry.

Lance: I am sorry too.

I think this happens a lot. People fall in love with the idea of a person, not the actual person. I
think Kiki fell in love with the idea of lance. His drive, willpower, confidence and charisma are
all attractive, but podiums and demure are only half of the pie. the other half is being a housewife
in the middle of the mountains in Spain weighing all the ingredients of your husbands dinner for the
third month in a row wondering when the hell you will get to go out to eat and have a bottle of
wine. It is a hard life for a self described society girl. Not that I am blaming Kiki for this or
that I am belittling her, the realities of an athlete's life are tough to live with.

How many people have started dating someone who thought it was awesome that you were an athlete
until the reality of that life kicked in?

"Steven" <crewiscool42@yahoo.com> a écrit dans le message de > I can see how this conversation went.
>
> Kiki: Lance I am sorry but I just can't take a back seat to your bike for another year. You're
> going to have to give a little.
>
> Lance: We have had this conversation a million times before I can't not bike, and I can't bike and
> not give it everything I have. you knew what I was when you married me. Hell you were the one who
> got me riding again
>
> Kiki: I know, but being one of these stepford wives walsing around Girona trying to make a day out
> of going to the park and the market with the kids its killing me.
>
> Lance: I known, but I am a cyclist Kik. The world wants me to be the greatest cyclist in the
> world, cancer survivors need me to be the best cyclist in the world, I NEED to be the best cyclist
> in the world. That takes sacrifice, you knew this when you married me.
>
> Kiki: and so we go round and round. I love you to death Lance but I need a life. I am not happy
> following you and you bike around the world. I am sorry.
>
> Lance: I am sorry too.
>
Steven, you should write for network television. Really, you're that good!

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"Steven L. Sheffield" <stevens@veloworks.com> wrote in message
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>

I should not care, but it does irritate me to know that there is another set of kids that will
grow up without their father. He won't see them more because of this divorce until after he
retires, if them.

OTOH, there are plenty of others that have much more tragic events occur on any given minute in this
world so I should not worry about millionaire single parents.

You're on your way to writing dialogue for The Great American Novel.

"Steven" <crewiscool42@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "Steven L. Sheffield" <stevens@veloworks.com> wrote in message
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> > From:
> >
http://sports.yahoo.com/sc/news?slug...v=ap&type=lgns
> >
> > AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Five-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong
and
> > his wife have separated and will divorce.
> >
> > Armstrong and his wife, Kristin, separated two weeks ago, soon after
moving
> > back to Austin from Girona, Spain. The couple is currently working on reaching a divorce
> > settlement, while maintaining separate homes in
Austin.
> >
> > ``The craziest thing is, we're closer now and better friends than ever before,'' Lance Armstrong
> > said the Austin American-Statesman in
Thursday's
> > editions. ``We're truly committed to maintaining a good relationship,
but
> > not a marriage.''
> >
> > Lance Armstrong overcame cancer on his way to five Tour wins. When he
won
> > his fifth straight Tour in July he tied the record held by Spain's
Miguel
> > Indurain.
> >
> > ``They tried, over the whole summer period, to reconcile,'' Jogi Muller,
a
> > spokesman for Armstrong's U.S. Postal Service team, told The Associated Press. ``But somehow,
> > now in the month after the Tour, it just didn't
work
> > out. They tried probably for the children, for themselves.''
> >
> > Muller said that the couple had originally planned to stay in Europe
through
> > mid-September, but decided to return home early.
> >
> > The couple, who have been married for five years and have three
children,
> > announced in February that they had been separated for a month. They
later
> > reconciled.
> >
> > Updated on Thursday, Sep 4, 2003 5:20 am
>
>
>
>
> I can see how this conversation went.
>
> Kiki: Lance I am sorry but I just can't take a back seat to your bike for another year. You're
> going to have to give a little.
>
> Lance: We have had this conversation a million times before I can't not bike, and I can't bike and
> not give it everything I have. you knew what I was when you married me. Hell you were the one who
> got me riding again
>
> Kiki: I know, but being one of these stepford wives walsing around Girona trying to make a day out
> of going to the park and the market with the kids its killing me.
>
> Lance: I known, but I am a cyclist Kik. The world wants me to be the greatest cyclist in the
> world, cancer survivors need me to be the best cyclist in the world, I NEED to be the best cyclist
> in the world. That takes sacrifice, you knew this when you married me.
>
> Kiki: and so we go round and round. I love you to death Lance but I need a life. I am not happy
> following you and you bike around the world. I am sorry.
>
> Lance: I am sorry too.
>
>
>
>
> I think this happens a lot. People fall in love with the idea of a person, not the actual person.
> I think Kiki fell in love with the idea of lance. His drive, willpower, confidence and charisma
> are all attractive, but podiums and demure are only half of the pie. the other half is being a
> housewife in the middle of the mountains in Spain weighing all the ingredients of your husbands
> dinner for the third month in a row wondering when the hell you will get to go out to eat and have
> a bottle of wine. It is a hard life for a self described society girl. Not that I am blaming Kiki
> for this or that I am belittling her, the realities of an athlete's life are tough to live with.
>
> How many people have started dating someone who thought it was awesome that you were an athlete
> until the reality of that life kicked in?

>> I wonder if Lance might have mentioned that if he didnt win the tour
>this
>> year he would retire, the thing is with LA is that if he does win 6
>it will
>> be hard for him to not try and come back for 7... and that might
>have been
>> too big a sacrifise for her.
>
>If there's one thing that is really difficult it's living the life of a multimilloinaire and doing
>anything you want. All that sacrifice is hard on a marriage.

Right, WTF is that ***** thinking...there must some other person involved here...

"B. Lafferty" <javaeye@nospamearthlink.net> wrote in message
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> You're on your way to writing dialogue for The Great American Novel.

Either that or "General Hospital"