John Forrest Tomlinson
12-31-1969, 08:00 PM
Lance Armstrong, from
http://www.cyclingnews.com/road/2008/tour08/?id=/features/2008/lance_armstrong_jul208
"Yeah, but the thing is, let's say we'd have brought in Oracle [as
sponsors instead of Astana], and [the team included] Johan Bruyneel
and Lance Armstrong and the CSE management team, with Contador and
Levi Leipheimer and all those guys. Astana would still be in the Tour
de France, but Oracle would be out. This 2008 decision was not an
anti-Alexandre Vinokourov-based decision. It was an
anti-Bruyneel-Armstrong decision. If they want to play games like
kids, then play games, but the record will show that ASO and the sport
of cycling was prosperous during our time winning seven editions. And
the record will show that, since then, it has not done well. And I'm
not taking any credit, I'm just saying, for the record, the facts are
what they are."
http://www.cyclingnews.com/road/2008/tour08/?id=/features/2008/lance_armstrong_jul208
"Yeah, but the thing is, let's say we'd have brought in Oracle [as
sponsors instead of Astana], and [the team included] Johan Bruyneel
and Lance Armstrong and the CSE management team, with Contador and
Levi Leipheimer and all those guys. Astana would still be in the Tour
de France, but Oracle would be out. This 2008 decision was not an
anti-Alexandre Vinokourov-based decision. It was an
anti-Bruyneel-Armstrong decision. If they want to play games like
kids, then play games, but the record will show that ASO and the sport
of cycling was prosperous during our time winning seven editions. And
the record will show that, since then, it has not done well. And I'm
not taking any credit, I'm just saying, for the record, the facts are
what they are."