Lance Armstrong today.

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Lance Armstrong today: Still a lying sack of ****.

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

BUMP..

Armstrong agrees to (re)pay Postal Service $5 million for defrauding sponsor. Settled $100 million suit for $5 million.
Again, ****. Him.

Lance Armstrong agrees to $5million settlement of government lawsuit | Daily Mail Online

Former cycling champion Lance Armstrong has agreed to pay $5million to settle a federal suit claiming he defrauded his sponsor, the US Postal Service, by using performance-enhancing drugs.
The settlement ends the long-running false claims suit brought by fellow cyclist Floyd Landis and joined by the US government, which had sought $100million in damages on behalf of the Post Office, according to a statement from Armstrong's attorney, Elliot Peters.
Armstrong was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and banned for life from bicycle racing in 2012 by the US Anti-Doping Agency after it accused him in a report of engineering one of the most sophisticated doping schemes in sports.
The deal announced Thursday came as the two sides prepared for a trial that was scheduled to start May 7 in Washington.

I renew that government entities shouldn't be allowed to sponsor anything. Total waste of taxpayer funds.

 

[playthrough]

That seemed a little low to me.

Landis gets $1.1 million of that for whistle-blowing.

 

[Buck]

I renew that government entities shouldn't be allowed to sponsor anything. Total waste of taxpayer funds.

Agreed.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

That seemed a little low to me.

Landis gets $1.1 million of that for whistle-blowing.

Nice infusion into his cannabis business, I guess.

 

[John B. Foster]

**** Lance Armstrong.

 

[LongTimeListener]

We should revive this thread every time an athlete is declared clean, especially when that proclamation is based on all the tests he has passed.

 

[Buck]

Or when power numbers spike in baseball but everyone wants to talk about launch angles instead of other possible causes.

 

[Azrael]

I forgive Armstrong the doping. Performance enhancement is pervasive among athletes and has been for centuries.

What can't be forgiven is the way he ruined the lives of those around him.

 

[Buck]

I forgive Armstrong the doping. Performance enhancement is pervasive among athletes and has been for centuries.

What can't be forgiven is the way he ruined the lives of those around him.

The doping just makes him a fraud. I could never work up much emotion over it in connection to a sport about which I never cared.
You're right, though, it was what he did to people, friends even, to keep his fraud going that makes him a truly bad person.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

Or when power numbers spike in baseball but everyone wants to talk about launch angles instead of other possible causes.

"It's too high. It's too high"

 

[Inky_Wretch]

I forgive Armstrong the doping. Performance enhancement is pervasive among athletes and has been for centuries.

What can't be forgiven is the way he ruined the lives of those around him.

His assholeishness is why he's still - sort of - a controversial figure in cycling. Other dopers were nice guys, are beloved by the cycling community and own a developmental team for youth cyclists (hi George Hincapie!).

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Gifford with a good column on this.

Did Lance Armstrong Just Crush the U.S. Government?