J'Accuse - Outside Magazine
Lance Armstrong is a retired professional cyclist with seven Tour de France victories, mostly due to having the strongest team each year. Post-retirement Lance's newest team doesn't involve those on two wheels. Picture a well tailored group possessing jurisprudence degrees and supernatural abilities to dispel defaming falsehoods.
Lance's current domestiques have their work cut out for them. Outside Magazine has an excellent article in their December issue about Lance's legal battles.
Read the article J'Accuse written by Joe Lindsey.
Lindsey has prepared a lengthy article describing the events surrounding the legal battle between Lance and, keep up with me here....
1. Paris-based publisher La Martiniere
2. David Walsh, Irish-born chief sportswriter for The Sunday Times
3. French sportswriter Pierre Ballester
4. Former Motorola rider Stephen Swart
5. Former Postal soigneur Emma O'Reilly
6. French newsmagazine L'Express
7. The Sunday Times
8. SCA Promotions, Dallas company providing risk coverage for promotional contests
9. Mike Anderson, Armstrong's former personal assistant and mechanic
Outside's article does not choose sides in any way. It describes the finer details of each case and discusses the potential outcomes of each one. It's a bit difficult to separate each case and think of them independently, but the article does an excellent job at providing a foundation to start from.
After reading the article I think we as Americans have certainly not given all these issues the weight they deserve. Not so much about Lance and the doping allegations being true or false, but more so about the legal ramifications of a victory for either side. What will history finally reflect?
The bike races are over, yet these legal mountains make one wonder if there's a summit with subsequent descent.
Lance's current domestiques have their work cut out for them. Outside Magazine has an excellent article in their December issue about Lance's legal battles.
Read the article J'Accuse written by Joe Lindsey.
Lindsey has prepared a lengthy article describing the events surrounding the legal battle between Lance and, keep up with me here....
1. Paris-based publisher La Martiniere
2. David Walsh, Irish-born chief sportswriter for The Sunday Times
3. French sportswriter Pierre Ballester
4. Former Motorola rider Stephen Swart
5. Former Postal soigneur Emma O'Reilly
6. French newsmagazine L'Express
7. The Sunday Times
8. SCA Promotions, Dallas company providing risk coverage for promotional contests
9. Mike Anderson, Armstrong's former personal assistant and mechanic
Outside's article does not choose sides in any way. It describes the finer details of each case and discusses the potential outcomes of each one. It's a bit difficult to separate each case and think of them independently, but the article does an excellent job at providing a foundation to start from.
After reading the article I think we as Americans have certainly not given all these issues the weight they deserve. Not so much about Lance and the doping allegations being true or false, but more so about the legal ramifications of a victory for either side. What will history finally reflect?
The bike races are over, yet these legal mountains make one wonder if there's a summit with subsequent descent.
posted by NashvilleCyclist.com at 1/09/2006 08:48:00 PM
6 Comments:
"...Mostly due to having the strongest team each year?" Did they peddle for him?
Everything but peddle. Without them there's no way he wins 7. Maybe 3 or 4.
Still impressive, in spite of all the controversy.
how about grammar? Have you ever seen the word pedal?
I saw it in a book once I think.
grammar? i think you mean spelling.
what about lance? that's a lot of people accusing him.
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