Lance Armstrong & Paul Kimmage verbal battle at TOC

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Watch what happens when Paul Kimmage from the UK Sunday Times attacks Lance Armstrong on doping issues during the Tour of California Press Conference. "What is it about those dopers you admire so much?"

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[GiantDefy954]

@johnnni76 piss off you sycophantical prick, what choice did armstorng have, die? obviously not he wanted to live just like anyone else with cancer does. It was luck that he lived NOTHING else. Dont say " if you want something bad enough then nothing can stop you not even a disease" because he had no physical control over what happened. He just went through chemo and hoped he would live, he had no more power over it than any other cancer patient you nobhead!

[adgwytc]

@GiantDefy954 Nice to have a grown up debate about this :). I do not advocate cheating in any sport and if he is found to have doped then I will only admire the Charity work he does and not the results of his career, but, until that moment in time he has tested negative (we can assume). As we both agree it could well be that he is just too big a name to have been shown as a doper. It would do, I think, irrepairable damage to the sport. You make very valid points in your statement

[GiantDefy954]

@adgwytc Also when he rode the tour de france in his winning years he had completely recovered and it may as well have been as if he had never had it. Its a miracle to survive cancer, but when you get back to perfect health then it is no more of a miracle than any other rider winning the tour, do you see what i mean?

[GiantDefy954]

@adgwytc yes he did get found to be taking ecstacy. I agree Armstrong may give hope to people with cancer because he survived,so have millions of others. But he has a manipulative personality, for example when he spoke to kimmage he knew exactly what was meant by cancer (a metaphor for the doping in cycling) yet he chose to question kimmage in order to get the journalists and press to be on his side. Yes i also agree that his name is too big in the sport to be tainted

[Leinster4life13]

what a bullshit cop out from Armstrong,playing the sympathy card.Typical doper

[johnnni76]

@GiantDefy954 pessimist, naysayer, jealous, ..whats your accomplishments in life....most people roll over and die when they get diagnosed with cancer...Armstrong is one of the few that fought and proved to the world that if you want something badly enough than nothing can stop you....not even a disease....

[adgwytc]

@GiantDefy954 You make a valid and fair point as well. I am not sure about this, but wasnt Ullrich taking recreational drugs? I guess I see it in a slightly different light. I see Armstrong as a man who instigated a foundation against a disease that affects almost everyone, directly or indirectly, and for that alone I admire him. Cycling, if he has cheated and proved to have then I agree with all you say. Maybe, given his position, they cannot afford to show him as a doper.....

[GiantDefy954]

@adgwytc fair enough that he is an inspiration to people who suffer from cancer, but seriously he went through chemo in 1996/97 and won the tour in 1999 so to be honest i think the drugs would have worn off by then had he not been doping. Im just saying i think he doped considering he beat ullrich and basso who were both caught doping. I just dont see how people can believe his story when he actually tested positive for 6 samples

[adgwytc]

@GiantDefy954 Hi. I cant say either way. But let me try and explain how Chemo works, or use google. Destroys all blood cells and just about everything else. What would be considered performance enhancing, drugs are used to build those cells back up again. Listen carefully, I have been there, those drugs can remain detectable by labs for up to 2 years after being administered. Again, I dont know if he has or not, time will tell, but his name is inspiration to millions of sufferers.

[GiantDefy954]

@johnnni76 sycophant...