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2005-08-24 Europe
French War Against Lance Armstrong Continues
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Posted by Raj 2005-08-24 14:42|| || Front Page|| [9 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 The race is to the quickest. File a libel case in US Federal court tomarrow forcing these accusers to meet US Federal standards of custody and transfer of evidence.
Posted by Elmemble Ulaitch5567 2005-08-24 15:05||   2005-08-24 15:05|| Front Page Top

#2 Time to let the Tour de France sink back into the oblivion that enveloped it pre-Lance. The French are so pathetic that the only way a Frenchman can win the Tour de France is to ban all non-French competitors. This is a step in that direction.
Posted by RWV 2005-08-24 15:14||   2005-08-24 15:14|| Front Page Top

#3 The director of the Tour de France said it was a "proven scientific fact" that Lance Armstrong had a performance-boosting drug in his body during his 1999 Tour win,..

Strange how this stuff is being aired now, SIX YEARS LATER.

Smells like sour grapes to me.
Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-08-24 15:27||   2005-08-24 15:27|| Front Page Top

#4 Smells like stale urine.
Posted by Dreadnought 2005-08-24 15:40||   2005-08-24 15:40|| Front Page Top

#5 The French are so pathetic that the only way a Frenchman can win the Tour de France is to ban all non-French competitors.

Tht's basically what happens with all the major Tours. For this year's TdF, 20 of 21 teams make the cut in various ways (it used to be 18 of 21, but you'll get the point) , leaving the other teams to be selected by the Tour's organizers.

Guess which team got this year's wildcard? That's right, Ag2R, a Division II French team. Back when 3 wildcard teams were selected, French teams would get 2 or all 3 of them. To be fair, the same thing happens for the Italian & Spanish tours.
Posted by Raj 2005-08-24 15:46||   2005-08-24 15:46|| Front Page Top

#6 Typical. I'd love if he gets his fur up and decides to do it one more time just for the hell of it. A competitor like Armstrong could.
Posted by MunkarKat 2005-08-24 16:02||   2005-08-24 16:02|| Front Page Top

#7 A Canadian lab expert calls bullshit:

"We are extremely surprised that urine samples could have been tested in 2004 and have revealed the presence of EPO," Ayotte said in an interview with VeloNews on Tuesday. "EPO - in its natural state or the synthesized version - is not stable in urine, even if stored at minus 20 degrees."

Um, ball's back in your camp, Mssr. LeBlanc...
Posted by Raj 2005-08-24 16:12||   2005-08-24 16:12|| Front Page Top

#8 EPO tests on the 1999 samples were carried out only last year -- when scientists at a lab outside Paris used them for research to perfect EPO testing.

So they tested and tested until they found EPO where there was none? Why not try the tests on his more recent urine, it's not as if he only won once.
Posted by rjschwarz">rjschwarz  2005-08-24 17:16||   2005-08-24 17:16|| Front Page Top

#9 From Yahoo Sports:
"Jacques de Ceaurriz, the head of France's anti-doping laboratory, which developed the EPO urine test, told Europe-1 radio that at least 15 urine samples from the 1999 Tour had tested positive for EPO.

Separately, the lab said it could not confirm that the positive results were Armstrong's. It noted that the samples were anonymous, bearing only a six-digit number to identify the rider, and could not be matched with the name of any one cyclist."
Comment: OK, the actual lab states that they cannot confirm the positive results were Armstrong's....However, the Newsletter, L'Equipe can make a match and connection to Armstrong. Say What?...rather...Enough Said!!! Another lawsuit for Lance to file or maybe come out of retirement and crush them all again.
Posted by Marnold 2005-08-24 17:45||   2005-08-24 17:45|| Front Page Top

#10 You know, he probably did take EPO—along with the rest of his chemotherapy. Chemotherapy supresses the red blood cell count, and one of the drugs they give patients to improve the situation is EPO.

In other words, he probably did take EPO, to keep him alive.
Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow  2005-08-24 17:51||   2005-08-24 17:51|| Front Page Top

#11 Damn whinners, lern to win, live to lern. F**k the FIA.

damn cry babies
Posted by That Jim Hall 2005-08-24 17:53||   2005-08-24 17:53|| Front Page Top

#12 MArnold!
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2005-08-24 18:07||   2005-08-24 18:07|| Front Page Top

#13 The French won't even win this war. Weasels!
Posted by Poison Reverse 2005-08-24 19:30||   2005-08-24 19:30|| Front Page Top

#14 Five-time cycling champion Miguel Indurain

Assuming that Indurain did it without performance enhancing means, what makes it so much out of the realm of possibility for someone to win it seven times?
Posted by Rafael 2005-08-24 20:49||   2005-08-24 20:49|| Front Page Top

#15 because he's American, and Texan, at that. Jealous losers and frauds. Who will watch the Tour next year? Not I
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2005-08-24 21:19||   2005-08-24 21:19|| Front Page Top

#16 Frank G, that depends on whether Lance is in it or not. Perhaps he'll come out of retirement for this.
Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-08-24 21:26||   2005-08-24 21:26|| Front Page Top

#17 Lance: why bother responding to the sour grapes of your lessers?
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2005-08-24 21:44||   2005-08-24 21:44|| Front Page Top

#18 I also heard the French found toothpaste, shampoo, some Right Guard, and Dial soap in his hotel room before the final race. A clear violation of French law!
Posted by 49 pan">49 pan  2005-08-24 21:56||   2005-08-24 21:56|| Front Page Top

#19 L’Equipe is owned by the Amaury Group whose subsidiary, Amaury Sport Organization, organizes the Tour de France and other sporting events. The paper often questioned Armstrong’s clean record and frequently took jabs at him — portraying him as too arrogant, too corporate and too good to be real.

“Never to such an extent, probably, has the departure of a champion been welcomed with such widespread relief,” the paper griped the day after Armstrong won his seventh straight Tour win and retired from cycling. source=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9050722/

Seems to me like the Frenchies just couldn't handle those disgusting American beating them in their own race.
Posted by Ebbaick Hupomonter3026 2005-08-24 22:24||   2005-08-24 22:24|| Front Page Top

#20 Smells like sour grapes to me.

Hmmm, could explain their declining wine sales perhaps. Or is it whine.
Posted by Rafael 2005-08-24 22:31||   2005-08-24 22:31|| Front Page Top

#21 I know the French are pissed about losing to a Texan, but this is just another piss poor excuse for their pissing away their national athletic event. As far as I'm concerned the French can go piss up a rope.
Posted by DMFD 2005-08-24 22:40||   2005-08-24 22:40|| Front Page Top

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