Those sports stars you just can't warm to
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What I don't like about Armstrong is not so much the doping...it's the fact he actually sued people for libel when they claimed he was doping...
Also he was the poster boy for giving cancer sufferers hope, that chance to do some good is gone.
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Speaking as a drug-using cyclist, my issue with him isn't as he is a cheat, a liar, a conman, a hypocrite or a spandex wearer. It is because of the documented next-level cuntery towards anyone who accused him of any of the above. One of the biggest fluffybunnies ever in my humble etc.
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@Crucial said in Those sports stars you just can't warm to:
Andy Murray - just won the Brit 'Sports Personality of the Year# for the third time. How he even qualifies as a 'personality' is beyond me. He has to be one of the most boring sportspeople on the planet.
That is where the logic in this falls down.
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@Bones
Like Crucial says, its because it's a public vote, so it almost never actually goes to the best sports person in the year (tho this year it did), it goes to whoever was wildly popular with the average gimp viewer.Hence Browlee coming 2nd mainly for carrying his brother over the line in some triathalon & the avalanche of press that got.
He had as great year, but he wasn't the 2nd best brit sportsman this year.
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Oh i bet lion are regretting this now
http://m.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11771643
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@jegga be interesting to see the exact nature of their marketing campaign, because you'd have to think it was always going to be risky with such a high profile and controversial person.
TBH, I wont drink Steinlager any more or less than normal...actually, I have drunk more than normal as I had a liquid lunch yesterday and had Steinlager Pure, which I don't normally have, I musta been swayed by some subliminal marketing tool!
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@taniwharugby said in Those sports stars you just can't warm to:
@jegga be interesting to see the exact nature of their marketing campaign, because you'd have to think it was always going to be risky with such a high profile and controversial person.
TBH, I wont drink Steinlager any more or less than normal...actually, I have drunk more than normal as I had a liquid lunch yesterday and had Steinlager Pure, which I don't normally have, I musta been swayed by some subliminal marketing tool!
I've got about 10 more Steiny Pure left in the fridge. Fuck any morals I may or may not have around Armstrong - I'll be finishing them...
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Have a cry Mallard you fucking tool
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I can see where Mallard is coming from. He's been on the WADA board for 6 years, so no doubt he knows more about what happened at the time than anyone on the Fern. He's not calling for anyone else to boycott Steinlager; it's his own personal choice. Good on him!
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@Stargazer said in Those sports stars you just can't warm to:
I can see where Mallard is coming from. He's been on the WADA board for 6 years, so no doubt he knows more about what happened at the time than anyone on the Fern. He's not calling for anyone else to boycott Steinlager; it's his own personal choice. Good on him!
Or to put in another way he's a grandstanding cock of a man and this boycott is almost as pathetic as the time he walked out of the stadium every time the Fijian team played at the Wellington sevens after their last coup.
Him and beer have a chequered history anyway, the jackass threatened to jam a Heinekin bottle up Vernon Pughs arse in 2002.
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@Stargazer said in Those sports stars you just can't warm to:
I can see where Mallard is coming from. He's been on the WADA board for 6 years, so no doubt he knows more about what happened at the time than anyone on the Fern. He's not calling for anyone else to boycott Steinlager; it's his own personal choice. Good on him!
he specifically says that, yet is still spreading his opinion, which I expect will have that exact effect, whether that was his (veiled) intention or not.
Just because he knows more about it something doesnt make him less of a knob.
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Armstrong will be a divisive character from here on in.
I really enjoyed him on the Joe Rogan experience, felt you sort of get to know him a bit better.
As far as I'm concerned he was a huge part in complete fucking up something that was fucked up already (cycling). But also started a foundation to try and fuck something else up which is fucking up a damn site more people that cycling ever will.
I'd shake his hand and ride with him given the opportunity, no question. People like him - if it wasn't cycling, it would be something else. Driven, relentless. Worth my admiration.
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@MajorRage yeah I enjoyed the Joe rogan interview , was long but honest and interesting , anyone who hasnt see n it , that might be interested
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@jegga said in Those sports stars you just can't warm to:
Oh i bet lion are regretting this now
http://m.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11771643
Wondering if he remembers where he put the Heinekens ...
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@MajorRage said in Those sports stars you just can't warm to:
Armstrong will be a divisive character from here on in.
I really enjoyed him on the Joe Rogan experience, felt you sort of get to know him a bit better.
As far as I'm concerned he was a huge part in complete fucking up something that was fucked up already (cycling). But also started a foundation to try and fuck something else up which is fucking up a damn site more people that cycling ever will.
I'd shake his hand and ride with him given the opportunity, no question. People like him - if it wasn't cycling, it would be something else. Driven, relentless. Worth my admiration.
I'll pop up on my little crusade once again to say fuck him in the strongest possible terms.
The lying deceitful prick perpuated and encouraged a system that demanded young people fill themselves with carcinogens in order to try and appear successful at what should be a pure and natural pursuit of competitiveness. But it's ok because he's set up a charity that does some good. Hypocritical arsehole of the highest order.
