Oz library finds Lance Armstrong books a new home: The fiction section An Australian library has announced it will reclassify books by Lance Armstrong as fiction, the Sydney Morning Herald reports. The announcement at Manly Library moving Lance Armstrong books to fiction Book browsers at Manly Library in Sydney wishing to draw inspiration from Lance Armstrong: World's Greatest Champion and other …
Manley, just outside of Sydney is a pleasant destination to visit the beach, eat outside at one of the many restaurants or takeaways and drink a beer at the Steyne Hotel.
The only downside to Manley are the number of uncouth Australians milling around and resident in the area. In fact Australia would be the greatest destination in the world, were it not for the population.
I was severely beaten to the punch by the OP; I had planned on suggesting that it figures that it takes Australia to have a Manly Library. It does, however, remind me of my visit to Moody, Alabama, a town which I drove through twice just to read the business names:
Moody Animal Clinic
Moody High School
Moody Dentist
Moody Dry Cleaners
As I left town and wiped the last of the tears from my eyes, I started to wonder whether the residents have gotten sick of seeing rental cars cruising down the main drag, occupants cackling immaturely...
Lance Armstrong was a drugs cheat. We know this now.
But wasn't almost every other top-flight racer in his time also a drugs cheat? Wasn't the problem actually systemic rather than just a few rouges?
Are drugs still rife in cycling? I assume they are, but I genuinely don't know.
"wasn't almost every other top-flight racer in his time also a drugs cheat?"
Pretty much yes... BUT Armstrong wasn't only competing while drugged to teh eyeballs, he was also (a) making a packet out of inspirational books, talk etc building a whole myth based on his lies. (b) Many competitors were 'encouraged' to do drugs by their teams for teh simple reason that if you didn't take them, you couldn't compete. Armstrong was a mastermind and pioneer of teh drug use. (c) Everyone else was pretty much keeping their head down and staying quiet. Armstrong was using legal threats and bully-boy tactics to silence anyone who even insinuated that he migt not be competing clean.
Armstrong's interview was a sham, he basically said OK i cheated but it was a long time ago, I'm sorry please forgive me. And then no doubt he'll publish a new book about his drug misdeeds so he can cash in on the way down as well as on the way up.
Sorry James but you dont have the first clue what you are talking about.
I suggest you read up on the Festina Drugs scandal from 1998 and the concerted team driven use of drugs like EPO and the riders involved like Richard Veronque or Alex Zuille to get an idea of how drug use has been rife in cycling long before Lance Armstrong and will continue to be a significant problem for many years to come.
Look at the number of tour winners who have failed tests at some stage in the last twenty years, aside from Hinault, Lemond and Indurain pretty much all of them have.
Add in the likes of Vinokournof winner of Gold at London but banned in 2007 for blood doping following a positive heamatocrit test at the Tour de France.
I am not defending what Armstong did, but your daily mailesque pronouncements are laughable.
There were clean riders, but a lot of those were bullied into doping and others had their careers diminished or ended for not participating in the doping.
For background, try here
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2013/jan/19/lance-armstrong-betsy-andreu
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cycling/19930514
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/oct/13/christophe-bassons-not-bitter-lance-armstrong
and here
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/nicole-cooke-retires-from-cycling#null
Drugs in cycling aren't so common now. But you probably have lots of clever people trying to gain advantage. It's all for the sponsors at the end of the day, do well and you get loads of money and your team is rewarded. Do badly and your team folds and you get nothing.
The same is true in F1 or any other sport where sponsorship is very important.
Maybe not, but hypoxic training is.
- Wiggins speaks about the time-trial course at Hampton Court
'It's a reward for the months of training, sleeping in an oxygen tent in the spare room,....
" For cycling, you won't feel any difference until you climb or push it to a tempo/interval pace. The overall pace for rides will be about the same, because despite less oxygen to use, there's also less wind resistance. Generally, you'll go slower on uphills, but faster on flats and downhills." www.tri-ecoach.com/art26.htm
Next they'll have to ban breathing, or maybe competitors who were born and bred above 200 metres altitude.
"The same is true in F1 or any other sport where sponsorship is very important."
True, sponsors are the boss - but try to name me a single F1 champion who used performance enhancing drugs. Or a single F1 driver, period - the hapless Tomas Enge found himself on the wrong end of a pot test after an F3000 season, and then later while in a GT series, not while he was (briefly) in F1.
According to Wikipedia - which, while surely not comprehensive, is yet useful - various numbers of athletes have been involved in failed drug tests. Let's see:
Cycling - 128
Baseball - 56
Football (Euro) - 71
NASCAR - 4
F3000 - 1 (Enge, for pot, which would not be terribly useful to enhance one's racing performance)
Le Mans - 1 (also for pot)
FIA GT - 1 (Also Tomas Enge)
Rally - 0
ALMS - 0
MotoGP - 0
Champ Car - 0
SCCA - 0
IMSA - 0
V8 Supercars - 0
IRL - 0
Trans Am - 0, Rolex - 0, Grand Am - 0, BTCC - 0, WTCC - 0
Formula One - 0
I could go on.
Certainly there are some guys who have used drugs; certainly the list of 'convicts' on Wikipedia is incomplete. But there does seem to be a certain trend.
Motorsport, interestingly, is one of those rare birds where it's quite difficult to get any advantage from doping; the negatives tend to outweigh or equal the benefits. Steroids bulk you up and make you lose your cool - no go. Uppers make you jittery and don't last long enough. Anything that affects your reflexes by even a sliver is useless.
I suppose it's a bit ironic - a lot of people don't consider motorsport to be 'a real sport', concluding that because it involves the use of a motor vehicle that it requires neither wit nor strength; I suppose if you instead take as a given that doping is endemic in sport, auto racing's absence from the classification is justified.
See also "This person just works a few hours on the weekend and he didn't have any authority to make a statement on behalf of the library."
Another classic bit of library management. These are the people who invented the word de-aquisition to describe book-burning.
Perhaps they start out as book lovers, but they wind up very much like bitter self-indulgent child-hating primary-school teachers.
And if they could just get rid of the books, and the clients, they could get rid of all the other staff as well
"some argue that it was Armstrong's doping that caused his infamous battle with testicular cancer. Medical evidence suggests that steroids such as testosterone and EPO may cause significant damage to the body, including an increased risk of cancer, particularly of the testicles. Witnesses have come forth with information that Armstrong admitted doping to his doctors and was aware that he may have contributed to his illness."
http://www.examiner.com/article/us-anti-doping-agency-cracks-down-lance-armstrong-stripped-of-titles
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