Bye Lance

[Cudzoziemiec]

Everyone wants cycling to move on, but some view Lance as a sacrificial lamb on the altar of that transformation. At some point someone will refer to 'The crucifixion considered as an uphill bicycle race.'

http://zoom-gordo.blogspot.co.uk/2010/04/crucifixion-considered-as-uphill.html#!/2010/04/crucifixion-considered-as-uphill.html

I think it's a bit Chitty the way everyone keeps Banging on about this.

[Domestique]

Apparently Watersons  are now stacking its Not About the Bike  under fiction.

 I don't think that book has a name any longer, onb. Like Lance, it's been stripped of its title...

[Ewan Houzami]

I got a marketing e mail from Planet X asking if I remembered when Armstrong was a spaceman.

I remember the moon landings. (Just) I also remember Planet X recently buying Jimmy Savile's old bikes at auction.

[Hot Flatus]

An open letter from Greg Lemond to Pat McQuaid:

http://velonews.competitor.com/2012/10/news/an-open-letter-from-greg-lemond-to-uci-president-pat-mcquaid_262523

If you read carefully, hidden in there is a slight nuance of annoyance at McQuaid

[TheLurker]

...If you read carefully, hidden in there is a slight nuance of annoyance at McQuaid

No, I must be dim; couldn't see even the slightest hint of irritation in it. *cough*

[rogerzilla]

Heh.  Good old Greg.

[RJ]

Traces of miffage, yes.

In contrast to mealy-mouthedness from Clentador (a pattern developing here).

And this is an interesting (and human) bit of commentary:
http://velonews.competitor.com/2012/10/analysis/analysis-collateral-damage-and-the-human-cost-of-wrecking-the-playing-field_262330

[Hot Flatus]

Contador is a convicted and unrepentant doper, just like Armstrong. People are very quick to forgive and forget that.

[clarion]

I do wish Lemond wouldn't sit on the fence like that.

[Pingu]

Heh.  Good old Greg.

Has he got a mangina?

[Nuncio]

I don't think we've had this before.  It's a little calmer and slightly more forensic than Greg's facebook entry, but no less damning for that.  It's Michael Ashendon's analysis of the tangled web surrounding the 2001 Tour de Suisse samples, and the donation(s) to the UCI.

http://www.siab.org.au/58dgETdx002ag/ArmstrongTriangle.pdf 

[Nuncio]

I think we need more of this sort of thing. 

Marcel Kittel ‏@marcelkittel

I feel SICK when I read that Contador, Sanchez & Indurain still support Armstrong. How does someone want to be credible by saying that?!

I hope he's not misdiagnosing a recurrence of the intestinal problems which saw him quit this year's TdF.

[RJ]

I don't think we've had this before.  It's a little calmer and slightly more forensic than Greg's facebook entry, but no less damning for that.  It's Michael Ashendon's analysis of the tangled web surrounding the 2001 Tour de Suisse samples, and the donation(s) to the UCI.

http://www.siab.org.au/58dgETdx002ag/ArmstrongTriangle.pdf

Some choice stuff in there:

... for Lance, a level playing field was always the – the best way to win the Tour

Indeed, Verbruggen’s stance calls to my mind Bill Clinton’s infamous statement that he did not have sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky.

[spesh]

The Empire strikes back against LeMond: http://s14.directupload.net/file/d/3054/hnez8ogv_jpg.htm

Unsurprisingly, the Tweet has been deleted.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Traces of miffage, yes.

In contrast to mealy-mouthedness from Clentador (a pattern developing here).

“It appears to me, that in more than a few places, they are not treating Lance with any respect at all

Seems to me he's had far more respect than he's earned.

[Justin(e)]

The Empire strikes back against LeMond: http://s14.directupload.net/file/d/3054/hnez8ogv_jpg.htm

Unsurprisingly, the Tweet has been deleted.

Who is Andrew McQuaid? 
Not another Kirsten moment? 

[Justin(e)]

Bloody hell - this is the gift that keeps on giving.

Another one.

Check this out - but I think that it needs to be updated already.

[hatler]

Bloody hell - this is the gift that keeps on giving.

Another one.

Wow !  That is real heart on the sleeve confession.

[Rhys W]

The Empire strikes back against LeMond: http://s14.directupload.net/file/d/3054/hnez8ogv_jpg.htm

Unsurprisingly, the Tweet has been deleted.

Who is Andrew McQuaid? 
Not another Kirsten moment? 

Pat McQuaid's son, works as a rider's agent.

[Exit Stage Left]

Bobby Julich's gone from Sky.
http://www.teamsky.com/article/0,27290,17546_8194069,00.html

[pcolbeck]

How is the UCI constituted ?  If all the riders and teams are now so pissed off with the leadership of the UCI is there no way they can force a change ?

[Justin(e)]

The Empire strikes back against LeMond: http://s14.directupload.net/file/d/3054/hnez8ogv_jpg.htm

Unsurprisingly, the Tweet has been deleted.

Who is Andrew McQuaid? 
Not another Kirsten moment? 

Pat McQuaid's son, works as a rider's agent.

Gee, that makes it tricky for the countersuit.  I'm thinking that Greg has one hell of a bargaining chip to play here.  With relatives like him, who needs enemies.

[citoyen]

Does Bobby J's confession now mean a French rider won the 1998 Tour de France? 

d.

[henshaw11]

Bobby Julich's gone from Sky.
http://www.teamsky.com/article/0,27290,17546_8194069,00.html

Curious, it sounded like after the initial clean-or-nothing declarations thing, that Brailford was rethinking his approach:
http://road.cc/content/news/69509-brailsford-hints-sky-softening-stance-doping-froome-fears-departures

[Exit Stage Left]

Does Bobby J's confession now mean a French rider won the 1998 Tour de France? 

d.

He was rider 4 then.