Newsgroup: it.sport.ciclismo
Titolo: Armstrong vs Tour

Armstrong: "You won't see me at the Tour anymore"
In an interview with Dutch publication Telegraaf, Lance Armstrong has 
affirmed that he does not intend to visit the Tour de France again. "I 
won't shake hands with hypocrites like Leblanc, Prudhomme and Clerc! No 
way!" the seven times Tour de France winner underlined. "In the start 
village? At the finish? Hell, no," he added.
Armstrong was offended last August when Tour de France director 
Jean-Marie Leblanc said that he "felt betrayed" by Armstrong, soon after 
French newspaper L'Equipe published its 1999 doping allegations. In 
October, the organisers officially revealed the 2006 parcours in Paris, 
but Armstrong was hardly honoured during the presentation. "Sure I'll be 
in Europe for some races next year, and I'll visit the team in the 
hotels during the Tour, but you won't see me at the start or the 
finish," Armstrong commented.
Meanwhile, the Texan insisted that he holds no grudge against the French 
in general. "I have nothing against the French, I'm only criticising the 
Tour de France organisation," Armstrong said, and included the newspaper 
L'Equipe, which he accused of leading a witch-hunt against him. 
"L'Equipe writes only negative things about me, but that's because of 
the relationship between the paper and the Tour organisation. Their 
history is overshadowed by a seven-times Tour winner, and that puts 
their inheritance in danger."
Especially since the French public is still waiting for the next French 
Tour de France winner after Bernard Hinault, whose last victory goes 
back to 1985. "Hinault, who stands behind me, would have never 
encountered the same problems as I have, because he is French," 
Armstrong said. "Maybe if he'd won only a few years back, I'd have less 
problems, too, but the French haven't played the general classification 
in 20 years. By trying to damage me, they're hoping to rewrite their 
history, but they will never succeed."
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 Armstrong: "You won't see me at the Tour anymore"
traduzione?
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Il bello è che ora la Juve è di sicuro l'UNICA squadra pulita in Italia

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"vi do una buona notizia..."
Ciao
Sculler 

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The Tour is merda.
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 The Tour is merda.
vabbeh... l'ho già letto
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Non mi vedrete più al tour. E mo' sospenderanno il tour secondo lui?
-- 
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose
(Janis Joplin)
18/12/2005 10.27.13

 won't shake hands with hypocrites like Leblanc, Prudhomme and Clerc!
Quando era Pantani a fare le stesse lamentele Armstrong lo criticò...
La differenza è che Pantani lo fece da "dentro" al gruppo, pagando con
l'estromissione dal Tour il coraggio delle proprie opinioni.
Armstrong, sempre più disgustoso e ipocrita di chi vuole criticare, fa
le stesse cose DOPO essersi ritirato, quando non ha più nulla da
perdere.
Sarà anche stato un grande ciclista, avrà anche avuto il carattere di
sconfiggere il cancro, ma resta un bifolco arricchito.
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Massimo Bacilieri AKA Crononauta 
ICQ:4005815

 sconfiggere il cancro, ma resta un bifolco arricchito.
il ciclismo "da dentro" è uno schifo già di suo, con una ipocrisia che non 
finisce mai, dal doping alle squadre, manager, direttori ed organizzatori che 
sanno... c'era bisogno di una provetta scongelata per rendere noto quel che è 
Lance (come TUTTI i ciclisti)?
ecco
partiamo da questo presupposto... Leblanc & Co, hanno tirato avanti per 7 anni 
sventolando la bandiera americana e adesso che se n'è andato, saltano fuori 
con queste cazzate
quindi, siccome sappiamo come è il ciclismo ed abbiamo vissuto in prima 
persona la "vicenda pantani", limitiamoci a *guardare* il ciclismo e le gesta 
sportive, perchè, o questo sport si rigira come un calzino o lo si lascia fare 
così com'è... :-)
ciao
piotre
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 Armstrong: "You won't see me at the Tour anymore"
il che č esattamente ciň che gli organizzatori del tour andavano 
cercando con la storia dei test del 99.

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Una bella sfida fra merde questa tra Armstrong e gli organizzatori del Tour
-- 
"Where will I be when I go back home?
Who will I see when I'm all alone?
And what'll I do?
Where will I be when I go back home?
Who will I see when I'm all alone?
And you tell me,
What am I going to do?"
David Crosby 

 finish," Armstrong commented.
Qui gatta ci cova...
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Mardot

 ma resta un bifolco arricchito.
quoto, ogni volta che apre bocca penso sempre di più che anche quello
splendido gesto che fece all'arrivo per Casartelli in realtà lo fece più per
se stesso, conscio del ritorno che avrebbe avuto, che per Fabio.
Dio, quanto lo detesto quell'americano !
-- 
Mardot

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For what it is worth, Armstrong bridged the cycling world between Europe and
America. It brought cycling to a new level in America, which means it
inpired a new generation of riders. It also made all the tours and classics
available to us here in the states on OLN TV which otherwise without
Armstrong we would of never been able to see them. Armstrong presence in the
tour help bring the tour into worldwide prominence, and lots of people made
money off of that including journalists, sponsers, corporations, etc. No one
talks about the positive aspects and he helped built the tour, only that he
is hated for a myriad of reasons, which next I suppose someone will say they
had wish he was never born, but there were a lot of hands in that cookie
jar, and now that the cookies are gone, he is the target of all kind of sour
grapes. As Pena said, no one can take away what Lance did. What Lance did is
bigger then all of that, its bigger then any doping charges, bigger then all
the sour grapes that are being spewed fourth from all corners of the world.
For me personally I just wish Lance had more character like Lemond. At least
Greg was more endeared to the French, but no on can take away what Lance has
done for the tour and its record will stand the test of time.
Bruce