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Re: Official Oprah Lance interview live thread [jackmott]
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Re: Official Oprah Lance interview live thread [CP78]
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Lance never doped.
Re: Official Oprah Lance interview live thread [jaelinfunk]
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jaelinfunk wrote:
Is triathlon gonna be mentioned even once? I mean it was the first and last sport he has doneI'd bet money he will.
Re: Official Oprah Lance interview live thread [FisH2O]
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Zero tolerance
Will it stop doping? I dont think there is any penalty that will stop cheating. But if you say 1 strike and you are out, it can scare enough people, that eventually/hopefully that scares them into racing clean.
But again, we'll never have "clean" sports. We just need to have confidence in the actual standards/protocols of the sport that when we see the winner, we have some certainty in that result.
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Will it stop doping? I dont think there is any penalty that will stop cheating. But if you say 1 strike and you are out, it can scare enough people, that eventually/hopefully that scares them into racing clean.
But again, we'll never have "clean" sports. We just need to have confidence in the actual standards/protocols of the sport that when we see the winner, we have some certainty in that result.
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Re: Official Oprah Lance interview live thread [SMp]
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I'll never shop at MJ again.
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Re: Official Oprah Lance interview live thread [chrisshannon369]
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I still support Lance. Did you miss the opening round of "Yes/No" questions?
Re: Official Oprah Lance interview live thread [SMp]
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SMp wrote:
I give Mellow Johnnie's five years maxthey have pretty good smoothies but just one won't show any real improvement.
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Re: Official Oprah Lance interview live thread [jaelinfunk]
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Re: Official Oprah Lance interview live thread [Peanut]
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Oprah is throwing him softballs and letting him control the interview, which is exactly what he wants. This is pathetic.
Re: Official Oprah Lance interview live thread [FisH2O]
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I think it is fair to say that many of us would have used EPO in Lance's situation
It is not fair to suggest that most of us would have sued people for telling the truth, or called our friends crazy btiches in the press, bribed the UCI, hired lobbyists to try and shut down usada, pressured trek to shut down lemond's business, and so on and so forth.
that takes a special kind of dedication, I think most of us would be too LAZY
I think the correct analogy for Oprah would be - "If you were an up and coming anchor/talk show host, and there was something you could do that would immediately send your ratings sky high with a tiny chance of getting caught, would you do it?"
I would say 95% would.
I never thought Lance wasn't doping, and I'm still waiting for the entire rest of the peleton to own up. A drop in the ocean, we've got juniors getting nailed, masters getting nailed. System is broken, and the rewards are too high.
Until there are actual penalties, and actual ways to catch athletes, this will go on and on.
Does it suck for those few that play fair? Absolutely. Any real solution? Still waiting...
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It is not fair to suggest that most of us would have sued people for telling the truth, or called our friends crazy btiches in the press, bribed the UCI, hired lobbyists to try and shut down usada, pressured trek to shut down lemond's business, and so on and so forth.
that takes a special kind of dedication, I think most of us would be too LAZY
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I'd have to agree, a whole lot of incredibly unrealistic expectations on here. A lot of holier than thou, but if posters on this board had a similar, easy way to succeed in their chosen profession, I'd say there would be a high level of acceptance. (especially if the rest of the people in your company were getting promoted over you) I think the correct analogy for Oprah would be - "If you were an up and coming anchor/talk show host, and there was something you could do that would immediately send your ratings sky high with a tiny chance of getting caught, would you do it?"
I would say 95% would.
I never thought Lance wasn't doping, and I'm still waiting for the entire rest of the peleton to own up. A drop in the ocean, we've got juniors getting nailed, masters getting nailed. System is broken, and the rewards are too high.
Until there are actual penalties, and actual ways to catch athletes, this will go on and on.
Does it suck for those few that play fair? Absolutely. Any real solution? Still waiting...
Kat Hunter reports on the San Dimas Stage Race from inside the GC winning team
Aeroweenie.com -Compendium of Aero Data and Knowledge
Freelance sports & outdoors writer Kathryn Hunter
Re: Official Oprah Lance interview live thread [FastGMan]
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there is oddly enough just the right amount of commercials mixed in for me to keep refilling my popcorn bucket!!!
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Re: Official Oprah Lance interview live thread [BDoughtie]
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You will never have clean sports when athletes can make more $$ than Nurses, Doctors, Scientists, Engineers, etc........
Re: Official Oprah Lance interview live thread [FastGMan]
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Yes, I thought she would put the screws to him harder. I was expecting her to ask him "what's next" once he came clean as a drug users....questions about what he plans to do in the sport to help clean it up etc. Maybe that is more of a Dan Empfield question than an Oprah one though.
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Re: Official Oprah Lance interview live thread [AustinDuDude]
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I'll never shop at MJ again.It took Oprah to get you to this point. You are shocked?
Re: Official Oprah Lance interview live thread [FastGMan]
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FastGMan wrote:
Oprah is throwing him softballs and letting him control the interview, which is exactly what he wants. This is pathetic.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Re: Official Oprah Lance interview live thread [AustinDuDude]
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Re: Official Oprah Lance interview live thread [FastGMan]
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And too many commercial breaks. At least online it is elevator music. Damn a second night of this.
Re: Official Oprah Lance interview live thread [FastGMan]
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He said at the beginning that he wanted to control the things in his environment.......
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Re: Official Oprah Lance interview live thread [FastGMan]
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FastGMan wrote:
Oprah is throwing him softballs and letting him control the interview, which is exactly what he wants. This is pathetic.What the heck did you want. Someone to beat him up. He admitted to doping, bullying people, being a prick.
Re: Official Oprah Lance interview live thread [kidrock]
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kidrock wrote:
Lance never doped.Thank you!!!! I needed a good belly laugh
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Re: Official Oprah Lance interview live thread [FastGMan]
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FastGMan wrote:
Oprah is throwing him softballs and letting him control the interview, which is exactly what he wants. This is pathetic.Agreed. I find this entertaining as well, but she's not pushing him on a thing. He should be on his heels but he's not. He's way too comfortable. The point of the interview was to confess (to a certain, limited, extent) so the fact that he's confessing isn't a surprise or a success for her. Come on, Oprah, you know what we need.... "You want the truth??? You can't handle the truth!!..."
Re: Official Oprah Lance interview live thread [vibrolux]
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I had a professor who proposed that the ONLY way to rid sports of drug use is to immediately ban anyone and everyone associated with the doper- coach, team mates, sponsors, etc.
Re: Official Oprah Lance interview live thread [Gandalf]
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FastGMan wrote:
Oprah is throwing him softballs and letting him control the interview, which is exactly what he wants. This is pathetic.this is an interview, not an interrogation. A good interviewer should be impartial, not indignant.
I fully appreciate the difference, trust me. But an interviewer also has to control the interview and ask the questions that the public wants answers to. She's letting him dodge questions and letting him control the interview. That's my criticism.
Re: Official Oprah Lance interview live thread [FastGMan]
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Calculated. It's like a dance, almost. She came out strong at the start, imo, to hook the audience with those "yes or no" questions. Now it's a matter of how much to share and what details. There isn't enough time in this interview to go into specifics. I would like to have an iPhone recording in the car ride on the way home from this hotel after the interview.
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In the audio book version of "The Secret Race" is it whispered or in a normal voice?
Find out what it is in life that you don't do well, then don't
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