Lance Armstrong’s Wall of Silence Fell Rider by Rider

[marmar]

NYT:



By JULIET MACUR
Published: October 20, 2012


Floyd Landis, the cyclist who had denied doping for years despite being stripped of the 2006 Tour de France title for failing a drug test, went to a lunch meeting in April 2010 with the director of the Tour of California cycling race.

As they sat down at a table at the Farm of Beverly Hills restaurant in Los Angeles, Landis placed a tape recorder between them and pressed record.

Landis finally wanted to tell the truth: He had doped through most of his professional career. He was recording his confessions so he would later have proof that he had blown the whistle on the sport.

“How do you expect people to believe you when you lied for so long?” Andrew Messick, the race director, asked Landis. “Have you told your mother? Have you told Travis Tygart?” ................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/21/sports/how-armstrongs-wall-fell-one-rider-at-a-time.html?ref=sports&_r=0

[Condem]

1. Excellent article...

...good to see Floyd Landis get some respect for telling the truth. Don't see too many of the Lance apologists, anymore. Must of come to the realization that their fucking rose colored glasses failed them.. Some folks have some growing up to do about how the cycling world works. That simple.

[joeybee12]

2. So who's going to get Lance's titles?

Every runner up to him has been caught...yeah, Landis told the truth to try and sell a book..what a swell guy.

[Condem]

3. How about no one...

...yeah, and Lance is a 'swell guy'?

[madinmaryland]

4. No one. There will be no winners listed from 1999-2005. nt

[trumad]

5. Well---you have officially gone down with the ship.

I thought for sure you'd bale just before it sunk.

Now you join the ranks of Cboy4 and Upton---great company.

[Condem]

6. Damn... where are the pompous loud mouths from this thread who can't admit they were wrong?!?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/120418759

[anakie]

7. for consistency sake

the UCI now needs to strip the 07 and 09 titles from Alberto Contador.

[Zeteticus]

8. Riis, Pantani, Ullrich, Contador,

The list goes on and on of those that should be stripped but won't be. I'm ok admitting Lance is a fraud as long as the same admission is made about the UCI.