MrContador wrote:
How could anyone envy a man with just one nut?
Because it wasn't his fucking fault, and even though I hate Armstrong, I find that very disrespectful. Try to remember next time that it wasn't just Armstrong that has had testicular cancer.
Edit: Completely misunderstood. Sorry.
Edited by valverde321 on 22-09-2010 13:52
Well, it's kinda ambivalent. I REALLY dislike the dude - but i dont neccesarily think an admitted doper is the worst anti-doping advocate there is. I mean.. would you put someone who had results in that era, as your front man - if he says he hadn't? I mean, if the project gets a lot of attention, i'd be constantly worried that he would be exposed.
Dopers, to begin with, come off as cheating bastards - but some of them have an air of honesty and reckoning about them after the whole process, i think that holds good value to such a campaign.
Such as i see it, the pissed off ones are the best for the sport. They truly feel like an unjustice has been done to them because they've been caught, and their buddies haven't. When they start going down the "WTF guys, him and him did it as well, and you're all just kicking dirt in MY face now!"-road, that's when things get interesting, and people get exposed. There is however the off-chance that they just start blaming everyone who was around them at that time, just because of their huge egos and infantile tendencies when being blamed for something - We'll all just have to weight each of them and try and make out who's really pissed, and who's just a little kid having his candy stolen from him. In Landis' case, i think it's a little of both - but he seems absolutely hellbent on exposing Lance, and i can't say that i think he's lying on that one.
MrContador wrote:
How could anyone envy a man with just one nut?
Because it wasn't his fucking fault, and even though I hate Armstrong, I find that very disrespectful. Try to remember next time that it wasn't just Armstrong that has had testicular cancer.
It may have been a doped up effort, but his performance to get back the yellow jersey was what really got me hooked on cycling, so I thank him for that.
And whatever his motivation, if he's trying to clean up the sport, it's hard to begrudge him for that as well.
