F1 » Webber signs off with slating of Armstrong

30 January 2013
Webber signs off with slating of Armstrong
Puzzled by how the American could continually appear 'clean' in a sport addled with the use of banned substances, Webber says he felt Armstrong needed to confess to any wrongdoing two years ago, but their mutual friends always insisted that he was unlikely to do so.

“The word 'defiant' always seemed to crop up,” Webber noted, “Armstrong was defiant all the way; he believed he was clean. That was still evident in the interview he gave to Oprah Winfrey. He admitted he was a doper, but still didn't see it as cheating.

“I think what's staggering to everyone is the amount of people he was prepared to take out on the way up - people who were morally on the right side of the bridge. He wasn't worried about the ramifications and the position he may have put these people in - it was all about 'Planet Lance'.”

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Taz

January 30, 2013 8:27 PM
Last Edited 112 days ago

@JJJ

I can't argue with what your saying about Flav/Massa, I'm certainly not defending the tubby one although I can't help but admire his berlusconi-esc efforts with the catwalk. I think a mechanical failure while leading by a mile in Hungary really cost Massa that title, you need a bit of luck and Massa clearly hasn't had much....getting hit on the head by a spring that fell of your fellow countryman's car for example.


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