Lance Armstrong in Stitches after Bike Crash

ASSSSSSSHOLE¡¡¡¡¡¡ HATE HIM. BADDDDLY

This man is a nasty piece of **** that needs to retire. Maybe he should peddle his ass back home.

Looks like pretty boy ain't so pretty any more....hehehe

How can anybody put Lance down. He is one couragious man who has beat cancer and is one of the strongest athletes ever, period.
He has been in cycling twenty years and everyone has said he must be on drugs to accomplish this, which has put him in the spotlight for them to try to prove this theory. And after that long they still cant prove it. You know why?? Becuase he has never used any. You stupid F's that put him or any other pro cyclist down are a bunch of lazy f'n losers. look at your own life. Oh and I hope cancer doesn;t touch you or someone in your family. Do you know what Lance has done for cancer awareness??, more than you bunch of cluster f's put together.

The haters are amongst us.

Lance Armstrong Crash Video 2010

http://www.monkeydollars.net/2010/05/lance-armstrong-crash-video-2010.html

Who can blame him for being distracted and crashing when people he knows claim all this b/s. Hard to concentrate when you keep having to think about defending yourself against doping when he has NEVER been positive.......give the guy a break. He is a legend!

TMZ, do you know that she prefer to wear a Chanel handbag flat 1112 in stead of the bracelet? I just see her blog about that she purchasing some replica Chanel bags from ec4bag . c o m which is dedicated on designer bags like chanel LV ...

Re: "This must have happened when he found out Landis snitched on him." (Posted at 8:15 PM on May 20, 2010 by havok)Here's my response.

SAY IT AIN’T SO FLOYD!

Newsflash: Floyd Landis has confessed to doping during his professional cycling career in an e-mail to USA Cycling Chief Executive Officer Steve Johnson. The e-mail, which was sent to Johnson on April 30, 2010, details Landis’ history with doping, starting from his first experience with testosterone in 2002 through to 2006 when he won the Tour de France, before abnormalities from a test on stage 17 saw him stripped of the title years later.

Previous denials. The incredible claims of his doping follow a four year period during which Landis heatedly denied allegations of doping during the 2006 Tour de France, when a urine sample showed the rider had an unusually high testosterone to epitestosterone ratio. Landis appealed against the findings from his A and B samples, at which point USA Cycling transferred Landis’ case to the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA).

Why now? Hmmmm. First, I think he believes that the statute of limitations has run on any possible perjury charge. (4 years – see discussion below); and then there is the impact saying it now to garner the most publicity. That is, good ol’ Floyd waits until just before the Tour de France, while the Giro d’Italia and the Tour of California are running to release his mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa (my fault, my fault, all my fault). It gives him the most press, and places him back in the limelight. What a sad sack, ‘cause he's wrong on both counts. This confession won’t advance his career, if that’s what you call it, one inch.

Questions class? I call on the person from the peanut gallery wearing the faded U.S. Postal jersey, yeah you with the upraised arm? What’s your question? What about all that testimony that he gave under oath, where he denied doping. Was he being untruthful then, or is he telling the truth now?

To answer your question, we must all realize that these outlandish claims follow a four-year period during which Landis passionately denied allegations of doping during the 2006 Tour de France, when a urine sample showed he had an unusually high testosterone to epitestosterone ratio. Landis appealed against the findings from his A and B samples, at which point USA Cycling transferred Landis’ case to the United States Anti-Doping Agency. The claim was heard in California. The case is the first ever public hearing by the USADA - something Landis himself insisted on after a ground-swell of support in the US - and was held at Pepperdine University School of Law in Malibu, California. In fact, Landis' lawyer called the case brought by the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) an 'utter disaster' and disputed the credibility of a lab test conducted in Paris after his 2006 victory, which showed that he had taken testosterone.

Lying then, or lying now. So how are we to react now that good ol’ Floyd is taking the position he was doping? Hmmm. . . I was lying then, I ain’t lying now. I was a doper, using everything I could get my hands on to improve my performance. Sorry. Uh, . . . sorry! What!? WHAT!

Back on Earth. Back on Earth in California, we have a jury instruction that states: “if you decide that a witness deliberately testified untruthfully about something important, you may choose not to believe anything that witness said.” (See CACI 5003.) This man testified under oath, that’s under penalty of perjury folks, that he did not use performance enhancing drugs. Confessions are good for the soul, but why did he make it public rather than tell it to a priest or minister. I wonder if he realizes that admitting he lied under oath is a righteous admission of perjury. The DA doesn’t even have to prove a case. The admission is not hearsay because it is an admission against his penal interest. The DA simply files his case, and puts in the admission like a dollar in a change machine. Confession in, felony conviction out. Gulp, a felony in California. Uh oh. Uh, where is the next train to Clarksville.

What is perjury in California, you ask? California Penal Code Section 118 states the following: “(a) Every person who, having taken an oath that he or she will testify, declare, depose, or certify truly before any competent tribunal, officer, or person, in any of the cases in which the oath may by law of the State of California be administered, willfully and contrary to the oath, states as true any material matter which he or she knows to be false, and every person who testifies, declares, deposes, or certifies under penalty of perjury in any of the cases in which the testimony, declarations, depositions, or certification is permitted by law of the State of California under penalty of perjury and willfully states as true any material matter which he or she knows to be false, is guilty of perjury.” Perjury is a felony in California. That is, under Penal Code section 126, “Perjury is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for two, three or four years.” 2 to 4 years! Holy crap, Landis landed deep in it this time!

Why California law? Why am I citing California law to you nattering nabobs? Because the 10-day arbitration on Floyd’s drug charges was held at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California, and, thus, the perjury occurred in California. This means California law applies to the case. Remember this: Landis, who testified in his own case, repeatedly denied taking steroids, saying he would not feel any joy in winning if he had cheated. Moreover, his denials were broad and not narrow. Thus, on Tuesday, May 15, 2007, and Saturday May 19, 2007, he testified in an admittedly false manner. Oh, and did you hear Floyd mention the statute of limitations? Well, he was really referring to his own statute of limitations on perjury, which he believes is 4 years. So, by his lights, he can now say that he was lying under oath and cannot be prosecuted. Assuming the perjury occurred on May 15, 2006, that means the statute ran on May 15, 2010. Ha, Ha, Ha! Right? You ain’t laughing. Right? Wrong, Floyd.

Statute of Limitations with a twist. Prosecution for an offense of perjury in California must be commenced within four years after commission of the offense. (See Penal Code § 801.) However, the twist, the rub, the surprise in the package is that statute of limitations for perjury (Penal Code section 118) is FOUR years from DISCOVERY of the offense. (Penal Code sections 801.5, 803(c)(2).) Discovery in this case would be the date of the confession, a couple of days ago. Good old Floyd waited four years to throw his little bomb in a crowed room only to find that it bounced right back at him.

Floyd, say it ain’t so, say you ain’t that stupid.

- Cicconi -

Post Script:

Folks, forgive me for the flippant way I treat a tragedy. The Floyd Landis case presents an example of a man’s life and dreams being ruined on prime time. It has all of the elements of an ancient Greek Tragedy. What is even worse is that many people, me included, really believed in him. He was a prodigious talent that crashed on the rocks of his own deceit. However, before we all cast a “contumelious stone” at Landis, we all have to feel sad for a man that is denied the right to his livelihood. That is what a ban for doping amounts to; however, after he serves his suspension he should be allowed to compete again. His desperation reached its height when his team was denied the right to ride in the Tour of California, and don’t believe for a minute that Landis’ membership in that team played a part. He is now striking out in anger and fear. We must have rules that release riders from purgatory after they serve their suspension. As Hannah Arendt, stated “Without being forgiven, released from the consequences of what we have done, our capacity to act would, as it were, be confined to a single deed from which we could never recover; we would remain the victims of its consequences forever, not unlike the sorcerer’s apprentice, who lacked the magic formula to break the spell.” As we have often heard: “Forgive, and You Shall Be Forgiven.”

hahahaha

Who cars if he cheated. He beat guys who were cheating and used his success to spread hope among terminally ill and hopeless children. So I say, God Bless him. Long may he strive.