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Peyton Place at the Bicycle Race
Topic Started: May 18 2007, 07:05 AM (192 Views)
QuirtEvans
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I Owe It All To John D'Oh
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,...00.html?cnn=yes

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Landis' fellow American Tour de France champion Greg LeMond . . . disclosed he had been sexually abused as a child and received a call Wednesday from Landis' manager who threatened to reveal the secret if LeMond showed up to testify.

Shortly after LeMond dropped those bombshells, the manager, Will Geoghegan, walked up to LeMond, apologized and admitted he made the call, LeMond said. Which led to "You're fired" — the message Landis attorney Maurice Suh gave to Geoghegan while they were still standing in the hearing room.


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[LeMond said:]"I think there's another side of Floyd that the public hasn't seen."

Landis, ditching his yellow tie for a black one he wore to symbolize his feelings of animosity toward LeMond . . . .
It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010.
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sue
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Maybe they should just say no Americans in the Tour for a couple of years, till they get their sh*t together, clean themselves up, and give the sport back it's credibility.
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DivaDeb
HOLY CARP!!!
a mildly related posting...I was looking back at the history of the Tour. It started in 1903 and was suspended during the years of both the world wars. I visited our new museum yesterday and there was a WW1 era bike. I think if they want to see who the real men are, they ought to haul out the old bikes and make them ride those!

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Phlebas
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sue
May 18 2007, 07:19 AM
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Maybe they should just say no Americans in the Tour for a couple of years, till they get their sh*t together, clean themselves up, and give the sport back it's credibility.

Sue,

The Tour de France has consistently been one of the most corrupt sporting events in a very corrupt sport. It never had much credibility.
Landis is a sleaze, IMO, but to say the absense of Americans from the Tour de France would somehow allow it to reacquire credibility it never had does not take into account its history and reputation.
Random FML: Today, I was fired by my boss in front of my coworkers. It would have been nice if I could have left the building before they started celebrating. FML

The founding of the bulk of the world's nation states post 1914 is based on self-defined nationalisms. The bulk of those national movements involve territory that was ethnically mixed. The foundation of many of those nation states involved population movements in the aftermath. When the only one that is repeatedly held up as unjust and unjustifiable is the Zionist project, the term anti-semitism may very well be appropriate. - P*D


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sue
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HOLY CARP!!!
Phlebas
May 18 2007, 10:43 AM
sue
May 18 2007, 07:19 AM
:rolleyes2:
Maybe they should just say no Americans in the Tour for a couple of years, till they get their sh*t together, clean themselves up, and give the sport back it's credibility.

Sue,

The Tour de France has consistently been one of the most corrupt sporting events in a very corrupt sport. It never had much credibility.
Landis is a sleaze, IMO, but to say the absense of Americans from the Tour de France would somehow allow it to reacquire credibility it never had does not take into account its history and reputation.

Fair enough, I stand corrected.

I guess it's because I live in Canada, the European scandals rarely made the news here, but the American ones have, big time, these last few years.
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