MagillaGorilla
12-31-1969, 08:00 PM
Interview with Amber "I didn't Know USADA was 34-0" Landis
http://www.dailypeloton.com/displayarticle.asp?pk=10169
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• How do you keep from being bitter? Or are you bitter?
I am bitter. Very bitter. For starters there has never been an athlete
in the history of sport that has been gypped, screwed the way that Floyd
has. He has gotten nothing out of his hard work. Nothing. He should be
going to the ESPY awards and this and that and the other. We were going
to have our big party and Kid Rock was going to come and it was just
going to be fun. We got nothing. Not one thing to be excited about. So I
do get bitter.
• It must be hard to remember that you won?
It is. I have been robbed of that, and that is disgusting to me. Because
I think the only person who got to feel it was Ryan. She has youth and
no real idea what happened. It's not as big a deal to her as it actually
is. I have been robbed of that feeling forever. Even when this ends,
yeah we'll be happy and have our party. But it won't be the same. It
won't be for the Tour de France. We'll say it's for the victory that
everything is behind us then.
We have been robbed forever of that feeling of him accomplishing his
dream. And no matter what happens, even when we do win all of this crap,
he will always have an asterisk by his name, no matter what. He will
never make the money he should have made. He'll never have the
sponsorship he should have gotten. It will never be the way it should
have been. It's not acceptable to me.
http://www.dailypeloton.com/displayarticle.asp?pk=10169
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• How do you keep from being bitter? Or are you bitter?
I am bitter. Very bitter. For starters there has never been an athlete
in the history of sport that has been gypped, screwed the way that Floyd
has. He has gotten nothing out of his hard work. Nothing. He should be
going to the ESPY awards and this and that and the other. We were going
to have our big party and Kid Rock was going to come and it was just
going to be fun. We got nothing. Not one thing to be excited about. So I
do get bitter.
• It must be hard to remember that you won?
It is. I have been robbed of that, and that is disgusting to me. Because
I think the only person who got to feel it was Ryan. She has youth and
no real idea what happened. It's not as big a deal to her as it actually
is. I have been robbed of that feeling forever. Even when this ends,
yeah we'll be happy and have our party. But it won't be the same. It
won't be for the Tour de France. We'll say it's for the victory that
everything is behind us then.
We have been robbed forever of that feeling of him accomplishing his
dream. And no matter what happens, even when we do win all of this crap,
he will always have an asterisk by his name, no matter what. He will
never make the money he should have made. He'll never have the
sponsorship he should have gotten. It will never be the way it should
have been. It's not acceptable to me.