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Lance Armstrong Doping Charges: USADA To Ban Cyclist For Life, Strip Him Of 7 Tour De

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You never get tired of fighting for everything you ever worked for...your entire lifes legacy and your future income and RECORD....no one gets that tired over losing fundamentally your life.

The thing is that you can't speak for everybody. Only Lance Armstrong can speak for Lance Armstrong. Maybe his motives for quitting are "ulterior," but as I've said, I found his official statement compelling. Have you read it?
 
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The thing is that you can't speak for everybody. Only Lance Armstrong can speak for Lance Armstrong. Maybe his motives for quitting are "ulterior," but as I've said, I found his official statement compelling. Have you read it?

In my last post I put a disclaimer at the end, stating it could be his tired or another reason...no I didnt read his official statement I watched part of it on the news...I dont know if Armstrong is guilty or not...those that investigated it and came to a conclusion and him know.
I do feel its unlikely that someone who was being stripped of their life would get tired fighting it if they were innocent...I know I wouldnt
 
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That's the thing: However you would approach it, or I would, we haven't lived life in Armstrong's skin. It's like everything else; easy to sit in judgment/difficult to genuinely understand unless you've lived it yourself. Have you read Armstrong's public statement? If so, what do you think?
 
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That's the thing: However you would approach it, or I would, we haven't lived life in Armstrong's skin. It's like everything else; easy to sit in judgment/difficult to genuinely understand unless you've lived it yourself. Have you read Armstrong's public statement? If so, what do you think?

Lol How many times are you going to ask me that...I said I didnt read it :) I said I listened to part of it on the box...the bottom line here nota is this....I dont know if hes guilty...you dont know if hes innocent and that goes for all of us.
 
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Lol How many times are you going to ask me that...I said I didnt read it :) I said I listened to part of it on the box...the bottom line here nota is this....I dont know if hes guilty...you dont know if hes innocent and that goes for all of us.

Well, sorry. You're right: I don't know whether he's innocent or guilty. But what I have done is read what the man had to say. I find odd your unwilingness to at least read the few paragraphs (I posted a link from WaPo several pages ago) of what Armstrong said while still holding onto an opinion that is deliberately uninformed.
 
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You never get tired of fighting for everything you ever worked for...your entire lifes legacy and your future income and RECORD....no one gets that tired over losing fundamentally your life.
Can it be hes just tired...sure, it can be anything...

An attacker that never quits you just can't fight forever. It strains your heart, your soul, and your spirit in every way. At first you're driven to fight back all people that wish to label you falsely. You fight for a while, you prove them wrong, and like nothing happened they come back with the same fight and the same fire as they had before and maybe you do as well this time. However, this can continue endlessly and they simply do not tire of it and each time they come back you will have a little less strength to fight them off. In time you simply won't have it. You will look at them as they come back one last time and you just don't want to fight anymore. You're tired, so tired of it and you know in very part of your being they will not stop, they will not tire, they will not learn of their wrong doing, no, they will continue to try to destroy you until they win and there is nothing you can do to stop it, so you just don't. You let them have whatever they want, you give them whatever they need, and do whatever is necessary to get it over with.
 
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Well, sorry. You're right: I don't know whether he's innocent or guilty. But what I have done is read what the man had to say. I find odd your unwilingness to at least read the few paragraphs (I posted a link from WaPo several pages ago) of what Armstrong said while still holding onto an opinion that is deliberately uninformed.

I said I watched him make a statement on television...and I have no need to read his statement it wont change anything for me...I get a feeling your under the assumption that Im against Lance Armstrong that assumption would be wrong...I am against athletes using enhancing drugs...whether lance armstrong, or gary bonds, or any other athelete in any sport convicted of using them DID or DID NOT I dont have a clue..and it was not my decision...I admired Lance Armstrong for having fought cancer and coming back and being what I thought was the greatest cyclist alive...if he was using enhancing drugs...then he very well may not have been the greatest in the world
Like I said nota...none of us know if hes guilty or innocent we have no choice but to leave to those that have all the information from investigating the incident to make the decision..
 
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An attacker that never quits you just can't fight forever. It strains your heart, your soul, and your spirit in every way. At first you're driven to fight back all people that wish to label you falsely. You fight for a while, you prove them wrong, and like nothing happened they come back with the same fight and the same fire as they had before and maybe you do as well this time. However, this can continue endlessly and they simply do not tire of it and each time they come back you will have a little less strength to fight them off. In time you simply won't have it. You will look at them as they come back one last time and you just don't want to fight anymore. You're tired, so tired of it and you know in very part of your being they will not stop, they will not tire, they will not learn of their wrong doing, no, they will continue to try to destroy you until they win and there is nothing you can do to stop it, so you just don't. You let them have whatever they want, you give them whatever they need, and do whatever is necessary to get it over with.

That can all be very true Henrin..I dont dispute that...what I told notabene applies here...None of us know if hes guilty or not...we all have to leave it to those that investigated it and have made the decision..
 
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That can all be very true Henrin..I dont dispute that...what I told notabene applies here...None of us know if hes guilty or not...we all have to leave it to those that investigated it and have made the decision..

The truth is we do. This has been going on forever and this is nothing more than the same fight he's already won over and over and over again. These assholes need to leave him the **** alone.
 
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The truth is we do. This has been going on forever and this is nothing more than the same fight he's already won over and over and over again. These assholes need to leave him the **** alone.

I Like Armstrong...but you and I have beat this to death...I dont disagree with you for the most part.
 
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As someone who couldn't care less about sports and has almost zero knowledge of sporting trends and whatever, and I say this in the interest of full honesty and disclosure...

...why does anyone care about doping in sports, in any manner? Seriously, I don't get it. Why should I care if Armstrong used growth hormones or whatever to win a race? Why are MLB players being hauled in front of Congress? Why is any of this in any news source outside of SportsCenter?

This. It's just a ****ing game, there are far better ways to use Congress and our tax dollars for **** sake. Investigating accusations against athletes for using steroids doesn't even rate in the top thousand list.
 
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Someone I dated did the Tour de France about 5 times in the late 80s, early 90s. He was told to dope or else lose his spot on the team. I asked him why he didn't change teams and he laughed at my naivety. He then told me that all of the teams were a bunch of dopers, he had no choice.

Things have changed now. Then everybody was doping, almost everybody.
 
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Someone I dated did the Tour de France about 5 times in the late 80s, early 90s. He was told to dope or else lose his spot on the team. I asked him why he didn't change teams and he laughed at my naivety. He then told me that all of the teams were a bunch of dopers, he had no choice.

So Lance Armstrong really did win it 7 times.
 
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