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Armstrong's luck running out?

Started by DGuller, June 29, 2012, 08:58:00 PM

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Eddie Teach

Quote from: DGuller on October 19, 2012, 08:27:54 AM
Why watch a football game when you can just watch the replays of touchdowns?

Football has some variety. Racing is much simpler, and the only interesting bit is at the end. Which is why sprints are entertaining and marathons aren't.
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Quote from: Peter Wiggin on October 19, 2012, 08:38:05 AM
Quote from: DGuller on October 19, 2012, 08:27:54 AM
Why watch a football game when you can just watch the replays of touchdowns?

Football has some variety. Racing is much simpler, and the only interesting bit is at the end. Which is why sprints are entertaining and marathons aren't.
Probably true for NASCAR, but in other forms of racing, the whole race matters.  From start to finish, everything that happens sets up the end of the race.

Berkut

Quote from: DGuller on October 19, 2012, 08:27:54 AM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on October 19, 2012, 08:16:53 AM
Why sit and watch for hours when you can just watch the clip of the crash?
Why watch a football game when you can just watch the replays of touchdowns?  Here is my favorite one of the year:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFm6o-qB6T4  Multi-car pileups happen at least four times a year, but this was a unique stroke of genius.

Wow, kind of amazing nobody was killed.
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I enjoy watching a marathon because I do some distance running and so I find it interesting to watch people doing the same things I do, but on a completely different level.

I imagine I would find auto racing more interesting if the cars were like the ones we drove. Say the NASCAR field hits up a few Hertz locations and rents their Chevy Impalas, and then races the hell out of them on road courses.
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Liep

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Sheilbh

They shouldn't replace him.  Have blank years when noone won :(
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Maladict

Quote from: Sheilbh on October 22, 2012, 07:46:18 AM
They shouldn't replace him.  Have blank years when noone won :(

There really isn't any other option, is there?

Liep

#97
They'll remain blank if I understood UCI correctly.

EDIT: It was Prudhomme who stated that if UCI found Armstrong guilty there'd be no replacement winner.
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"JamenajmenømahrmDÆ!DÆ! Æhvnårvaæhvadlelæh! Hvor er det crazy, det her, mand!" - Uffe Elbæk

sbr

They should stay blank, no sense in giving it to another random person, who was most assuredly doping too.

mongers

Interesting read:

Victims of Lance Armstrong's strong-arm tactics feel relief and vindication in the wake of U.S. Anti-Doping Agency report -
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/more-sports/zone-lance-armstrong-bully-downfall-article-1.1188512
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Maladict

I still can't picture him publicly apologizing for all this.

Grey Fox

#101
I still don't care.

I still don't understand why doping is wrong while crazy bathing suits are A-Ok.
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Ed Anger

Quote from: Maladict on October 22, 2012, 10:01:32 AM
I still can't picture him publicly apologizing for all this.

He better not. Ever.
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celedhring

#103
Quote from: Grey Fox on October 22, 2012, 10:04:39 AM
I still don't care.

I still don't understand why doping is wrong while crazy bathing suits are A-Ok.

Crazy bathing suits aren't A-Ok anymore, though.

I get where are you coming from, but given the potential health hazards of doping, and putting the onus on who has the best chemist instead of who trains harder is enough for me to draw the line.

(EDIT: First post!)

Grey Fox

#104
Quote from: celedhring on October 22, 2012, 10:17:39 AM
Quote from: Grey Fox on October 22, 2012, 10:04:39 AM
I still don't care.

I still don't understand why doping is wrong while crazy bathing suits are A-Ok.

Crazy bathing suits aren't A-Ok anymore, though.

I get where are you coming from, but given the potential health hazards of doping, and putting the onus on who has the best chemist instead of who trains harder is enough for me to draw the line.

(EDIT: First post!)

They are still A-Ok, the London games were full of them. It's just that the Swimming governing body has decided to regulate their use instead of stocking it's head in the sands.

Fuck the health hazard, they are athletes, they chose this*. The onus hasn't been on training in decades. What's with all the specialists the athletes & teams hire.

Also, WTFAY?

*except the Chinese, of course.
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