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Is Lance finally busted?
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And Nike ends their sponsorship. He made 21 million in 2012 - wow doping really pays off
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-17/nike-ends-contract-with-lance-armstrong-amid-doping-allegations.html
All the the time he has been laughing all the way to the blood bank.
It will be interesting to see if other sponsors will follow. I wonder if they could damn he pay back to money earned if his contract states doping is not legal.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-17/nike-ends-contract-with-lance-armstrong-amid-doping-allegations.html
All the the time he has been laughing all the way to the blood bank.
It will be interesting to see if other sponsors will follow. I wonder if they could damn he pay back to money earned if his contract states doping is not legal.
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Not sure why it bothers me, but I just don't see any purpose in Nike pulling out now. Twenty years from now, no one is going to disassociate the two at all. You could probably ask a toddler in Jordan's who made them and they'd say Lance.
Well it matters for their image right now and that is why they did it now. What is so difficult to understand about that?
"The company will also take Armstrong's name off of the fitness center on Nike's campus in Oregon, according to KeJuan Wilkins, a spokesperson for the athletic gear maker."You expected them to rename a whole building at the world campus or something?
http://money.cnn.com/2012/10/17/news/companies/nike-lance-armstrong/index.html?iid=HP_LN&hpt=hp_t1
The World Campus is 2 miles from my house. This has been all over the news last night and this morning.
It keeps getting worse.
http://www.theonion.com/articles/lance-armstrong-lets-down-single-person-who-still,29313/
Wondering how long/how much til he comes clean...who will get the interveiw.
I don't think he will, look at Sandusky.
that's typically when you regret not pulling out.
looks like they're all jumping ship... first nike, now RadioShack, Anhesuser-Busch, Giro, and Trek.
http://velonews.competitor.com/2012/10/news/nike-ends-relationship-with-armstrong-continues-livestrong-collaboration_261699
http://velonews.competitor.com/2012/10/news/nike-ends-relationship-with-armstrong-continues-livestrong-collaboration_261699
honey stinger too
I can't help but wonder how long it will be before all his sponsors go after his money. This was fraud on a massive scale and he is sitting pretty.
The doping thing came as no surprise, but the fact that he used his wealth and influence to discredit and sabotage his detractors is pretty ugly.
He won two previous lawsuits linked to getting prize money while doping and a libel case he won against a newspaper who said he doped. Not only can they revisit those lawsuits but he could easily be found guilty of perjury as a result of his testimony in those cases.
The SCA case was worth $12 million and was the case where he attempted to intimidate Franky Andreau and his wife into withholding their testimony.
Betcha he is currently using all his creative drug smuggling tricks to squirrel away cash.
dunno... my (amateurish) guess would be, that the differences would be near same, just the average speed would drop... that would make actually no difference for the average joe, as they wouldn't notice the difference...
Anyone think LeMond is calling all his friends saying "I told you so" ??
LeMond's most notorious remark: "If Lance is clean, it is the greatest comeback in the history of sports. If he isn't, it would be the greatest fraud.
http://www.bicycling.com/news/featured-stories/whatever-happened-greg-lemond
http://www.bicycling.com/news/featured-stories/whatever-happened-greg-lemond
Sad to say but after being a fan since the mid-80's I don't really want to watch the Tour that much anymore anyway, juice or no juice.
That reminds me of an Andy Richter bit on Conan from years ago. (I couldn't find it on youtube). When Andy does the New York marathon, "at his own pace".....they showed him over the course of the week, sauntering down the street wearing his number plate, eating an ice cream cone....stopping in front of a movie theater, looking up at hte marquis....shrugging, and goes in.
i imagine that's how the tour would go without juice.
But I don't give a crap about the TdF anyway.
it's like NASCAR, I watch it for the crashes
On a nike and other sponsorship/endorsement note, are they firing lance because of steroid/drug use or because of all the controversy attached to it? The reason I ask is that they don't seem to be cutting out endorsements for other athletes who are more clearly using in the mainstream sports....food for thought or thoughtless food?
agree.
Everybody is droping Lance because the Lance brand is irreparably tarnished, not because they actually care about PEDs.
You should see what @oakley just posted on twitter about Lance.
They are refusing the jump on the "drop Lance bandwagon" until proven guilty.....
They are refusing the jump on the "drop Lance bandwagon" until proven guilty.....
Says something about oakley
George always gets it right
They don't want to be drug tested either?
"by douches, for douches"
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on today's episode... people asking for their donations back
http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/19/us/lance-armstrong/index.html?hpt=hp_c2
http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/19/us/lance-armstrong/index.html?hpt=hp_c2
Not sure that I'm ok with people demanding money back from a cancer-fighting organization just because the spokesman is a douche... Time to separate the organization from the namesake.
That being said, if you *really* want to donate to a cancer organization, do it to the National Cancer Institute, as 100% of your donations go towards cancer research. All overhead is covered by the federal government, so no part of your salary goes towards marketing, administration, fundraising, etc.
http://obf.cancer.gov/contribute/giftfund.htm