Yes, he was an excellent 1-day classics rider and won the World Championships in '93, but that is very different than being able to excel at a 3 week tour. He climbing and time trials were mediocre prior to his full-time contract with Ferrari.
I'm not certain that one classic win (and zero monuments) entitles you to call him an "excellent 1-day classics rider" - although one of the races he did win prior to 1998 was the Clasica de San Sebastian, a well-known climbers race.
Sarkozy is his name.
No it isn't (at least, if Lance had lunch with the French Prime Minister, it wasn't Sarko, but if Lance had lunch with Sarko, he wasn't having lunch with the French Prime Minister (Sarko was President, never Prime Minister)).
Justin91 wrote:
I'm basically a naive moron in that I believe he'd have won 7 Tours if he and the rest of the field were clean.
Fixed it for you.
Actually I didn't know any details and couldn't find it back. Just recall there was some kind of suggestion for retaliation.
GenericID wrote:
Sarkozy is his name.No it isn't (at least, if Lance had lunch with the French Prime Minister, it wasn't Sarko, but if Lance had lunch with Sarko, he wasn't having lunch with the French Prime Minister (Sarko was President, never Prime Minister)).
This is the story, true or not:
Harvey Brimwood.
He would have won the TdF and set a world record in the marathon, but has been reduced to eating spaghetti for all his meals and watching reruns of My Favorite Martian.
Plus he had to move to New Zealand.
Yes -- I just found the same article.
Pierre Bordry -- I guess at 72, his career wasn't ruined. Lance asked French President Sarkozy to fire Bordry. Bordry found out because Lance made the effort to boast about it in person. Sarkozy cut AFLD funds in half, and Bordry resigned.
Sarkozy justified doping, remarking that even Asterix took a magic potion.
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/bordry-armstrong-boasted-hed-asked-for-my-head
Man, Lance really has some ball.
muzak is whack wrote:
I think "financially ruined" is what is meant by ruined.
So you take the massage therapist, who had a solid job with a team, was probably well paid, knew the athletes, etc. She gets dumped and no one else picks her up. Probably had to take job at some gym or something. Now she's been out of the game for 8 years. Hard to come back from that one.
Same scenario with the bike mechanic... Getting a solid job with a team is much better than working in a local bike shop, mind you, so what else is he going to do? Go work at Dicks?
The legal costs are the most important part. Some companies/people took out six figures and more to defend themselves against his libel suits. Imagine how they feel...
Was she not a cut above massage therapist, like physio, or physical therapist doing massage? If so she likely had better options.
Lemond is financially ruined????
He owns a large property with a tennis court. We should all be as broke as Lemond.
Broke Rich Dude wrote:
Lemond is financially ruined????
He owns a large property with a tennis court. We should all be as broke as Lemond.
http://www.celebrityhousepictures.com/greg-lemond.php
Beautiful peace of property. Would love to run the roads around it for hours.
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