[LleytonMonfils]

Originally Posted by Fumus

HUH? Misery? How about all the cancer research, millions raised for charity, hope he's given those with deadly disease? How about all the lives he's saved?

To be fair hardly if any of the $ raised went to cancer research

And a hero doesn't ruins people's lives and collect millions of dollars constantly trying to cover up a lie. Lance is no hero.

[Looner]

This Fumus guy is really a lost cause .

[Caesar1844]

Originally Posted by Litotes

Then you know precious little about cycling. Merckx won eleven Grand Tours - eleven is better than seven, in much the same way seven Wimbledons by a tennis player with nothing to back them up wouldn't beat Borg's eleven. Plus, Merckx has 22 wins in the biggest one-day races, the monuments (19) plus the world championships (3), compared to Armstrong's one - the WC 1993. Merckx is so much better it is no surprise there were room for several others in between, such as Coppi, Hinault, Anquetil, Bartali, Gilmondi, Kelly....

Yeah, this. Merckx won everything there is to win in cycling. And most of his Grand Tours he won multiple jerseys - not just the yellow but also the green and very often the polka dot as well. He was a freak of nature.

I don't think there's any other sport with a GOAT as undisputed as Merckx is in cycling.

[Fumus]

Originally Posted by pierricbross

Almost every world famous althete is raising millions for cancer/starving kids/poor families/other diseases etc. That doesn't make it any less fantastic, but it doesn't excuse Lance Armstrong from criticism either (even if he was the only one), neither does 'oh everyone else doped!!!'.

Yes it does.

If we all get a +2, then it's not an advantage anymore.

Originally Posted by Taejin

Lol, if anyone is pompous that would be you, can't even grasp simple facts As for the charity:

I keep giving simple facts and I keep hearing Lance is evil because he doped and Novak is right. C'mon seriously, grow up.

Originally Posted by Lee

I can see clearly that you only want to see what you see.

I only want to see what I see? Everyone has their own perspective on things, it's an opinion.

I also think red is the best color in the world. Just sayin'

Originally Posted by homogenius

this post is wrong on so many levels
Oh and...you need help.Seriously.

Cool, I also can type nonsense and insults. bla bla bla.

Originally Posted by Litotes

Then you know precious little about cycling. Merckx won eleven Grand Tours - eleven is better than seven, in much the same way seven Wimbledons by a tennis player with nothing to back them up wouldn't beat Borg's eleven. Plus, Merckx has 22 wins in the biggest one-day races, the monuments (19) plus the world championships (3), compared to Armstrong's one - the WC 1993. Merckx is so much better it is no surprise there were room for several others in between, such as Coppi, Hinault, Anquetil, Bartali, Gilmondi, Kelly....

http://www.torontosun.com/2013/01/16...who-ever-lived

Originally Posted by LleytonMonfils

To be fair hardly if any of the $ raised went to cancer research

And a hero doesn't ruins people's lives and collect millions of dollars constantly trying to cover up a lie. Lance is no hero.

WTF!? Yes it went to his pocket and he bought conflict diamonds with the money. Good call. I'm I the only sane person in this whole damn forum?

Originally Posted by Looner

This Fumus guy is really a lost cause .

Aww...Mr.Looner. I suggest you brush up on your tennis knowledge and type less nonsense.

[Time Violation]

Originally Posted by Fumus

I keep giving simple facts and I keep hearing Lance is evil because he doped and Novak is right. C'mon seriously, grow up.

Novak merely repeated what everybody else round the world is saying, it's not like he made some revelation there If you weren't infatuated with your American hero, you'd think the same.

[erickmartins]

Originally Posted by Fumus

Yes it does.(...)

obvious troll is obvious.

[janko05]

Originally Posted by Fumus

HUH? Misery? How about all the cancer research, millions raised for charity, hope he's given those with deadly disease? How about all the lives he's saved?

You trolls here really need to beef up your skills in creating a decent argument.

Armstrong isn't evil and the only ones he's made miserable are the ones who attacked him for doing what everyone else in the sport was doing at the time.

Go back to trollin' the GM.



He can send his regards...I'll send him the record books and ask who has the most TDF wins. Lance is the greatest ever.



Djokovic is a HYPOCRITE.

Lance is a HERO.

Can anyone really argue that statement?

1 guy has raised millions for cancer research through his charity and spear headed an effort to promote a healthy lifestyle.

Another guy is just a pompous ass running his mouth and doesn't even have a charity to speak of...even though he's made millions. He's talking about how people should suffer for cheating...meanwhile he's faked injuries a million times to try to gain an upper hand in matches, gosh if that's not cheating I don't know what is.

Lance hero.

Novak Hypocrite.



American's are bees knees dude... also we're the richest, most highly developed country in the world. Um, but yea we blindly believe the media and are slaves to the television. We totally suck and are dumb...

Just like how you don't watch tennis or understand the game. You clearly didn't watch Lance, the tour or much cycling. I don't know what that has to do with the media or Americans but I'll just smile and nod the next time you post.



WTF!? I mean it seriously, I suppose your post was suppose to be meant as incompetent. Most Tour De France wins ever...yea, but he wasn't the best cyclist in the history of the sport. Hmm...I also think that Andre Agassi was the greatest tennis player ever based on my opinion I mean using an empirical measurement like number of weeks at number 1, slam wins, titles etc. That's just stupid, I'll pickout who I like and just say they are the best ever.

Nice post. LOL.



LOL. Yea, do you believe in Santa Claus too?

I can see you've beefed your argument creating skills up to that point where you lose all contacts with reality.
In your own reality you created a whole new world of lies and twisted facts.
You can dwell in it for as long as you wish, I don't mind.

[philosophicalarf]

Originally Posted by Fumus

WTF!? Yes it went to his pocket and he bought conflict diamonds with the money. Good call. I'm I the only sane person in this whole damn forum?

Livestrong gave up funding cancer research in 2005, they're very open about it. It was a PR front by Nike and Armstrong, very cleverly done. Made him a ton of money - for example, look at livestrong.com. It's a commercial operation, which pays Armstrong (.org is the supposed cancer foundation).

A nice example is that Livestrong was paying lobbyists in Washington, trying to get USADA to lay off Armstrong. Why would a cancer foundation do that?

[Lee]

Originally Posted by Fumus

I only want to see what I see? Everyone has their own perspective on things, it's an opinion.

I also think red is the best color in the world. Just sayin'

You were not stating your opinion. You said djokvoic did no charity, no foundation to help people. The FACT is he has a charitable foundation helping young people of which he even received Centrepoint Award in London last year. These are FACTS, not opinion or perspective.

Obvious, FACTS are not something you can deal with.

And in your hero worship of Armstrong, you are so blinded that you even not recognised his charitable foundation, which is so holy in your opinion that you do not even know said foundation no longer contribute to any cancer research for many years.

And I have wasted enough time here, not just you but this thread.

[Han Solo]

Originally Posted by zcess81

Can you name me a few former TRUE elite players who have been exposed as cheats? Agassi comes to mind, but he didn't take performance enhancing drugs, as far as I know. Most former tennis cheats are nowhere near no.1 spot. Until they expose an elite player (multiple grand slam winner), such as Fed/Rafa/Nole etc., it just shows that it is far from easy to cheat in tennis if you are constantly under the microscope. This is especially true now where we have zero privacy. The moment Fed/Nole/Murray/Rafa start taking performance enhancing drugs/cheating, rumors would spread like a plague and they'd have nowhere to hide.

Basically, until we have a concrete proof (such as Armstrong in cycling), it is extremely cynical to assume that the same is true in tennis at the very top of the game.

Like I said before, unless you are into conspiracy theories, it is extremely difficult to believe that the elite players, who are constantly under the microscope, and who have so much at stake, are taking performance enhancing drugs. Lower ranked guys, maybe, as they have less to lose and as they are off the spotlight, but the top 4-5...forget it.

QED.

[Fujee]

Fumus

[Han Solo]

Originally Posted by Fumus

WTF!? I mean it seriously, I suppose your post was suppose to be meant as incompetent. Most Tour De France wins ever...yea, but he wasn't the best cyclist in the history of the sport. Hmm...I also think that Andre Agassi was the greatest tennis player ever based on my opinion I mean using an empirical measurement like number of weeks at number 1, slam wins, titles etc. That's just stupid, I'll pickout who I like and just say they are the best ever.

Originally Posted by Litotes

Then you know precious little about cycling. Merckx won eleven Grand Tours - eleven is better than seven, in much the same way seven Wimbledons by a tennis player with nothing to back them up wouldn't beat Borg's eleven. Plus, Merckx has 22 wins in the biggest one-day races, the monuments (19) plus the world championships (3), compared to Armstrong's one - the WC 1993. Merckx is so much better it is no surprise there were room for several others in between, such as Coppi, Hinault, Anquetil, Bartali, Gilmondi, Kelly....

Originally Posted by Fumus

http://www.torontosun.com/2013/01/16...who-ever-lived

The article Fumus posted provides as an argument to support the idea that "Armstrong is the greatest cyclist who ever lived" the following:

1) "In a sport where so many of the good ones were doping, Armstrong was competing on a field that was more or less level. No one was in his category."

2) "There has never been a cyclist of his talent, stamina, perseverance."

That's it, pretty much. Somehow, Litotes arguments seem more compelling.

(Incidentally, the journalist who wrote the piece is neither a specialist in cycling nor any other sports.)

[Henry Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Fujee

Blood transfusions also. Miraculous recoveries after epic matches seem to suggest this no?

I doubt it.

Transporting bags of frozen blood to Australia for example, sounds logistically improbable to me.

[Har-Tru]

Originally Posted by Henry Chinaski

I doubt it.

Transporting bags of frozen blood to Australia for example, sounds logistically improbable to me.

Oh ye of little faith...

If cyclists were able to do it, crossing the extremely closely watched French borders, getting BBs into Australia is easy as.

[Har-Tru]

Originally Posted by Fumus

HUH? Misery? How about all the cancer research, millions raised for charity, hope he's given those with deadly disease? How about all the lives he's saved?

You trolls here really need to beef up your skills in creating a decent argument.

Armstrong isn't evil and the only ones he's made miserable are the ones who attacked him for doing what everyone else in the sport was doing at the time.

Go back to trollin' the GM.



He can send his regards...I'll send him the record books and ask who has the most TDF wins. Lance is the greatest ever.



Djokovic is a HYPOCRITE.

Lance is a HERO.

Can anyone really argue that statement?

1 guy has raised millions for cancer research through his charity and spear headed an effort to promote a healthy lifestyle.

Another guy is just a pompous ass running his mouth and doesn't even have a charity to speak of...even though he's made millions. He's talking about how people should suffer for cheating...meanwhile he's faked injuries a million times to try to gain an upper hand in matches, gosh if that's not cheating I don't know what is.

Lance hero.

Novak Hypocrite.



American's are bees knees dude... also we're the richest, most highly developed country in the world. Um, but yea we blindly believe the media and are slaves to the television. We totally suck and are dumb...

Just like how you don't watch tennis or understand the game. You clearly didn't watch Lance, the tour or much cycling. I don't know what that has to do with the media or Americans but I'll just smile and nod the next time you post.



WTF!? I mean it seriously, I suppose your post was suppose to be meant as incompetent. Most Tour De France wins ever...yea, but he wasn't the best cyclist in the history of the sport. Hmm...I also think that Andre Agassi was the greatest tennis player ever based on my opinion I mean using an empirical measurement like number of weeks at number 1, slam wins, titles etc. That's just stupid, I'll pickout who I like and just say they are the best ever.

Nice post. LOL.



LOL. Yea, do you believe in Santa Claus too?

Jesus Christ... get a clue.