Now Floyd Landis has been caught will the mainstream USA media go after Lance Armstrong Or Will The Story Fade Away?
Now that Track and Field superstar Marion Jones has admitted to using steroids and Floyd Landis the 2006 Tour de France champion have been stripped of their medals. How long will it take before Floyd Landis starts talking to the media about his “friendship” with Lance Armstrong ? Will Landis tell the truth about Armstrong? Only time will tell. Are Landis and Armstrong still “good” friends?
For the longest time, Landis and Armstrong have formed this united front in the media pledging their allegiance to each other. Armstrong even defended Landis in the press over the doping allegations. However, once Landis was found guilty of doping Armstrong has slowly but surely distanced himself from his so called good friend Floyd Landis.
The question now is, will the USA American media turn up the heat on Lance Armstrong? After all, the USA media seem to be going hard after Barry Bonds. Why does Armstrong get a free pass from the USA press? Armstrong may have won the Tour de France an incredible seven times. However, the international media is not so convinced that Armstrong’s extraordinary success was just due to hard work and determination. The French media specifically has not bought into the Armstrong story.
For years steroid abuse allegations have followed Armstrong and he has denied forever that he is a cheater. Just remember readers Marion Jones also denied for years that she cheated too. And Floyd Landis also denied he cheated. Yet the flame is still burning and the fire is not out. I have this feeling that Floyd Landis knows more about Lance Armstrong and that he’s hiding something. Landis and Armstrong claim to be good friends. When there is smoke there is fire.
According to a June 24th 2006 NPR story, Armstrong’s ex friends Betsy and Frankie Andreu claim that Armstrong told them that he did indeed use drugs in 1996 in a hospital room. Also, according to the same NPR story Stephanie McIlvain a former friend also says Armstrong used performance enhancing drugs.
Also the silence of the mainstream USA media about Armstrong is very perplexing and interesting. Armstrong is the white American golden boy he can do no wrong. Floyd Landis he was the white boy of the moment he won the Tour de France just once. Landis is now old news. Armstrong is not just considered a great American athlete he’s considered a legend in USA sports. Armstrong story coming back from testicular cancer to become a dominant cyclist is now a part of American mythology. The American media have fostered and helped create this so called Lance Armstrong “legend.”
Yet the British and French media are cynical and are paying close attention to Lance Armstrong more then the American media. The question is why? Why is there this eerie silence in the mainstream USA press in relation to Armstrong? Check out the links for yourself. Do you think Armstrong cheated during his cycling career? Cycling is known for so many years for cheating. Armstrong to his credit never got caught cheating. Just remember Marion Jones never failed a drug test in her career either. Jones was on the designer steroid the “clear” which was undetectable during lab tests. The question is, if Armstrong was clean as he claims why is there still a cloud of doom and doubt over his success? Remember Marion Jones also denied for years she used steroids until one day Jones finally decided she wanted to live her life honestly.
Link to NPR story listen and read ex friends of Lance Armstrong say he admitted drug use:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5508863
Link to The Times.co.uk article about Armstrong and cheating:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/more_sport/tour_de_france/article559819.ece
Link to Landis claim doping agency wanted Armstrong:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/cycling/6646809.stm
Link to lessons on Floyd Landis verdict
http://boulderreport.bicycling.com/2007/09/lessons-from-th.html
Link: Floyd Landis stripped of Tour de France title
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jyjDmlUh8XW7t59IMnHMN3pg7FmA
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Armstrong is a multiple confirmed drug cheat.
He always doped, before during and post Cancer.
Nike’s LIVE WRONG is just another sneaker fraud theme.
Did Armstrong dope? Probably just like every other cyclist in the sport. He’s just better on or off the dope in long stage races. I say every top level athlete no matter what sport is assisting his/her performance with some sort of PED. Anyone who believes otherwise is naive. I love the sports writers and jockeys (radio) that act with disbelief when one of the stars gets caught..I heard one of them (can’t recall who) claim that pro boxers were clean. What a laugh! I say let em dope. You try to perform at that level into your thirties and you’ll see exactly why they do it. Go pedal a bike at 25 mph for 110 miles a day for three weeks and see what happens to your body.
They already do all dope. No need for your permission or understanding.
Lance Pharmstrong used cow blood (Actovegin) Is that cool too?
EPO, RSR-13, cow blood transfusions, human blood, steroids, coticoids, insulin, other.
LIVE WRONG! Lie to sell product. Nike swoosh.
Floyd is appealing CAS. He will win. He is innocent. Mainstream media has crucified him. Doctors have testified the testing procedures were faulting. The politics enabled that testimony thrown out.. But that doesn’t mean they were wrong. Further, there were chain of custody issues with the samples. All 3 tests were done at the same faulty lab, even with Landis requesting the follow-ups be performed at other locations. Legal observers were “locked out” of the lab while testing was occurring. There were “white out” on lab results where it should have been simply crossed thru and dated. The test that is “easy to perform” was thrown out. But the more difficult test which was up for debate, which other labs testified would find not-guilty (1 metabolite verse 2), was somehow allowed. Science and logic will win in the end.
Abe: “If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what’s said against me won’t amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.”
Roid Landis is toast, Andogel toast. Marion Jones, Justin and Lance all laugh at this loser.
No Nike deal to save his lying arse. Just a wicked and rotten doper, cheat and fraud.
Landis is a bigger joke than his drug teammates: Gutierrez, Botero, Armstrong.
His own father-in-law blew out his brains to escape this fool’s madness of lies.
Roid Landis has no friends, no life and no job. He needs to stop his medications now.