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Testo: <blockquote data-quote="micky" data-source="post: 1481277" data-attributes="member: 3396">Per capire lo scambio di battute bisogna pure leggere questo articolo, del giornalista Paul Kimmage;  "My reaction...the enthusiasm that I had built up about the sport in the last couple of years has been all but completely wiped out in the last couple of hours. Lets turn the clock back to Armstrongs last apparition in the sport. The Tour de France 2005. Hes standing on the podium. And he makes this big impassioned speech. Which is basically saying The last thing Ill say to the people who dont believe in cycling, the cynics, the sceptics: Im sorry for you. Im sorry you cant dream big. Im sorry you dont believe in miracles. That was 2005, his last ride in the the Tour de France. And the people flanking him on that podium were Ivan Basso and Jan Ullrich. And a month after that race ended the French newspaper LEquipe reported that in his first winning Tour de France, in 1999, Armstrong had tested positive for EPO. Six separate samples taken during that race revealed positive tests for EPO. This return, he wants us to believe that its all about saving the world from cancer. Thats complete bullshit. Its about revenge Its about ego. Its about Lance Armstrong. I think hes trying to rewrite his exit from the sport. Hes sat back and hes watched the last two years and he cannot stand the idea that there are clean cyclists now that will overtake his legacy and buy the memory of all the crap that he put the sport through. When I heard it being mooted first that he was coming back, I thought well thats fine, because the first thing ASO are going to say is sorry Lance, weve seen your results from the 1999 tests , youre not coming back. I expected a similar statement from Pat McQuaid. Whats happened instead is that Christian Prudhomme has said yes, you can come back, no problem. And Pat McQiad has said I really admire this man, hes a tremendous ambassador for cycling. What were getting here is the corporate dollars and the money thats going to accompany this guy back into the game. The money thats going to bring for Nike, one of the big sponsors of the Tour. And for the UCI, who have been experiencing some serious problems in the last couple of years. Much as you want to say the sport has changed, as quickly as they can change their own opinions McQuaid, who says one thing in private and quite the opposite in public, and Prudhomme if they can change so quickly then Im sorry, its really very, very difficult to have any optimism with regard to Armstrong and the way the sport was moving forward. For me, if he comes back next year, the sport takes two steps back. I spent the whole Tour this year with Slipstream, the Garmin team. That wasnt by accident. I chose that team deliberately, because of what they were saying about the sport and the message they were putting out. But also the fact that so many of that team had raced with Armstrong during his best years and knew exactly what he got up to. And the stuff that I learnt on that Tour about him and what he was really like was absolutely shocking, really shocking. Whats going to happen now is he comes back and everybodys going to wave their hands in the air and give him a big clap. And all the guys who really know what hes about are going to feel so utterly and totally depressed. And Im talking about Jonathan Vuaghthers, who raced with Armstrong that first winning Tour and who doped. And if you look at that Tour, Armstrongs first win, there were seven Americans on that team. Frankie Andreu has said he used EPO. Tyler Hamilton has been done for [blood doping]. George Hincapie was exposed as a doper by Emma OReilly, the team soigneur. Christian Vand Velde and Jonathan Vaughters both are members of Slipstream and would promote the notion that this was not a clean team by any means. When you look at that and what Armstrongs done and how hes seemingly got away with it, it just makes his come back very hard to stomach. Astanas the absolute perfect team for him. Hed be renewing his old acquaintance with Bruyneel, who wanted to hire Basso last year. Will he be renewing his old acquaintance with Ferrari, the famous doctor? Will Bruyneel be taking pictures of the questioning journalists and pinning them on the side of his bus? When Armstrong talks about transparency, this is the greatest laugh. When he talks about embracing this new transparency Im really looking forward to that. Im really looking forward to my first interview request with him and seeing how that comes back. Because that would really make it interesting. This guy, any other way but his bullying and intimidation wrapped up in this great cloak, the great cancer martyr this is what he hides behind all the time. The great man who conquered cancer. Well he is the cancer in this sport. And for two years this sport has been in remission. And now the cancers back."</blockquote>

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