Lance Armstrong retiring again !!!

Slideshowbob

http://twitter.com/ssbike

Looking at last few tweets by Mr Stokes looks like some big news about to break!?!?

RobFowl

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/cycling/lancearmstrong/7859882/Tour-de-France-2010-Lance-Armstrong-announces-second-retirement-on-Twitter.html

Slideshowbob

So will TDF be his last race?

Wonder was he "told" to retire by powers that be? eg UCI - too much heat coming at them?

RobFowl

Gather the final GC may not be known until some time next year :rolleyes:

FDA cases take 1-2 years to come to court

(Neither of these are at all related to the story above).

Slideshowbob

RobFowl wrote: »

(Neither of these are at all related to the story above).

Really? which stories? Is there more to come out tomorrow?

http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/4696/Tour-de-France-Armstrong-says-hes-ready-close-to-best-form.aspx

Dura Ace

From the New York Times today.

"At least two of the people Landis implicated said they had met with investigators to tell of their past involvement with doping. They did not provide details of those meetings, but both said they were honest in responding to the investigators’ questions. Those men, long followers of cycling’s code of silence that kept doping a secret, did not want their names published for fear of retribution during racing at the Tour."

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/29/sports/cycling/29cycling.htm?pagewanted=1

The Wall Street Journal are also apparently publishing an article this week with various details on the Landis/Armstrong affair.

mloc123

Lance has officially jumped the shark

Lumen

Lance on Twitter wrote:

# And yes, this will be final Tour de France. It's been a great ride. Looking forward to 3 great weeks.
...
# Doh, sorry, meant "my" final Tour.

ednwireland

Originally Posted by Lance on Twitter
# And yes, this will be final Tour de France. It's been a great ride. Looking forward to 3 great weeks.
...
# Doh, sorry, meant "my" final Tour.

Lumen wrote: »

i think that says more than anything

lance: without me the tour is nothing
tour organisers: meh, whatever

RobFowl

RobFowl wrote: »

Gather the final GC may not be known until some time next year :rolleyes:

FDA cases take 1-2 years to come to court

(Neither of these are at all related to the story above).

“I think we are very optimistic that this inquiry will be a fruitful one,” David Howman, the director general of the World Anti-Doping Agency, said in a telephone interview Friday. Howman is one of several antidoping officials receiving frequent briefings on the case. “But this is going to take some time because we’re not really talking about a simple antidoping case here. Remember the Balco case, how long that took? Well, we could be still talking about this one in 2016.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/29/sports/cycling/29cycling.htm?pagewanted=1

:rolleyes:

Caroline_ie

I must buy a news paper here now ... feck I missed the fresh news GGrrr