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Post by Jep Gambardella on Mar 12, 2019 20:24:01 GMT
Good choice. It was such a great story - cancer survivor not only recovers from THE disease, but becomes the biggest winner in possibly the most grueling sports competition in the world. And then we find out that he had been cheating all along. What a disappointment...
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Post by Midi-Chlorian_Count on Mar 12, 2019 20:46:40 GMT
Good choice. It was such a great story - cancer survivor not only recovers from THE disease, but becomes the biggest winner in possibly the most grueling sports competition in the world. And then we find out that he had been cheating all along. What a disappointment...
www.alltime-athletics.com/wmaraok.htm
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Mar 12, 2019 21:03:14 GMT
Good choice. It was such a great story - cancer survivor not only recovers from THE disease, but becomes the biggest winner in possibly the most grueling sports competition in the world. And then we find out that he had been cheating all along. What a disappointment...
www.alltime-athletics.com/wmaraok.htm
OK. Not sure what you are trying to say. Is Paula Radcliffe also a cancer survivor? Or is it that you think the marathon is more grueling than the Tour de France?
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Post by DC-Fan on Mar 12, 2019 21:11:08 GMT
Then came the discovery of cheating and his smugness about it. I'll never take a word he says seriously anymore. He's a total dbag. Yep. ARod, Brady, PEDelman. Those douchebags cheated and then had a smugness about it. There were 89 players listed in the Mitchell Report. Some of those players (such as Jason Giambi and FP Santangelo) have owned up to their cheating and publicly apologized to the fans. Then there are players like ARod and in the NFL Brady and PEDelman who get caught cheating and have a smugness about it. Pro sports is very competitive and sometimes players try to cheat to gain an unfair advantage and I get that sometimes players make a wrong decision and choose to take a shortcut. But if you made a mistake and chose to cheat and got caught, then you should own up to your mistakes and apologize to the fans. But douchebags like ARod and in the NFL Brady and PEDelman were smug about it after they got caught cheating.
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Post by DC-Fan on Mar 12, 2019 21:12:47 GMT
Good choice. It was such a great story - cancer survivor not only recovers from THE disease, but becomes the biggest winner in possibly the most grueling sports competition in the world. And then we find out that he had been cheating all along. What a disappointment...
Yep. Lance Armstrong, Ben Johnson, Tom Brady. They all seemed like great winners. Then we found out that they had been cheating all along. Such disappointments.
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Post by Midi-Chlorian_Count on Mar 12, 2019 21:38:52 GMT
OK. Not sure what you are trying to say. Is Paula Radcliffe also a cancer survivor? Or is it that you think the marathon is more grueling than the Tour de France?
I just still find it interesting to read people saying things like they were shocked to discover Armstrong had been "cheating all along". I wouldn't classify myself as a huge cycling fan but people were writing about Armstrong's cheating and waiting for it to all come out for years before it did. Personally I think I stopped believing on what was maybe his 3rd or 4th tour when he died in the mountains one day, then came back and destroyed everyone the very next day! It was pure Hollywood / Superman stuff but if you've done any endurance sports you'd just know it was simply impossible without drugs / blood transfusions 😳. So I posted these women's best ever Marathon times just as a point of comparison. Radcliffe has a time almost 2 minutes faster than ANY other woman in history. And this time was set bang in the middle of the Armstrong's EPO era. So if irrefutable evidence of Radcliffe cheating was revealed tomorrow should that really come as a big surprise? (I guess yes, like Armstrong, it probably would but it shouldn't really)
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Post by bluerisk on Mar 12, 2019 21:43:11 GMT
Uli Hoeneß
Sebastian Deisler
Michael Ballack
Admiration is a bit much...a high opinion, someone whom I respected once.
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Post by Geddy on Mar 12, 2019 21:49:22 GMT
Hulk Hogan.
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Post by them1ghtyhumph on Mar 12, 2019 22:05:58 GMT
Charles Barkley
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Post by twothousandonemark on Mar 12, 2019 22:39:28 GMT
Many soccer players. Most in their youthful primes can be fascinating stories. Then they all get fat & rich & rude.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2019 23:21:35 GMT
I never had a huge love or anything for him but I'm sure a lot of Packers fans would agree that Darren Sharper turned out to be a huge pile of human garbage.
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Post by millar70 on Mar 13, 2019 1:02:37 GMT
Ray Lewis
I liked him better when he had real hair and actually murdered people.
Now, he paints weird hair-like substance on his head, and has basically turned into a dancing monkey for the NFL. Sorry if that sounds racist, but I guarantee that when Massa Goodell starts snapping his fingers, Ray will start dancing.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Mar 13, 2019 1:05:22 GMT
Sorry if that sounds racist, but... Always a good way to start a sentence.
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Post by millar70 on Mar 13, 2019 1:13:33 GMT
Sorry if that sounds racist, but... Always a good way to start a sentence. Sorry if that sounds racist is basically how we're starting to say all of our sentences these days, because no matter what you say, some dope can figure out a way to twist and turn. As in the case, sorry if this sounds racist, but I really enjoy double chocolate chip cookies. Sorry if this sounds racist, but I had a girlfriend who went to an all-black high school. Do you know what the school chant was? Watermelon Watermelon Cadillac Car We ain't as dumb as you think we is.
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Post by Rufus-T on Mar 13, 2019 1:37:18 GMT
Here is a controversial one: Bruce Jenner.
I can respect his predicament if truly troubling his soul. Just that he became an attention whore for turning into a she. I am not too sure about his transformation. Did he go through the reassignment surgery? If he didn't, it was just a lots of talk.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Mar 13, 2019 11:33:44 GMT
Always a good way to start a sentence. Sorry if that sounds racist is basically how we're starting to say all of our sentences these days, because no matter what you say, some dope can figure out a way to twist and turn. As in the case, sorry if this sounds racist, but I really enjoy double chocolate chip cookies. Sorry if this sounds racist, but I had a girlfriend who went to an all-black high school. Do you know what the school chant was? Watermelon Watermelon Cadillac Car We ain't as dumb as you think we is. This is.... bizarre...
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Post by masterofallgoons on Mar 13, 2019 11:35:30 GMT
Here is a controversial one: Bruce Jenner. I can respect his predicament if truly troubling his soul. Just that he became an attention whore for turning into a she. I am not too sure about his transformation. Did he go through the reassignment surgery? If he didn't, it was just a lots of talk. Well, even forget about all of that. How about just becoming a joke on the first family of vapidity and the worst of the reality TV culture? There's enough to dislike just there before you get to any of the rest.
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Mar 13, 2019 11:58:39 GMT
Sorry if that sounds racist is basically how we're starting to say all of our sentences these days, because no matter what you say, some dope can figure out a way to twist and turn. As in the case, sorry if this sounds racist, but I really enjoy double chocolate chip cookies. Sorry if this sounds racist, but I had a girlfriend who went to an all-black high school. Do you know what the school chant was? Watermelon Watermelon Cadillac Car We ain't as dumb as you think we is. This is.... bizarre...Agreed, that would've been a better end to the chant.
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Post by klawrencio79 on Mar 13, 2019 14:27:22 GMT
Always a good way to start a sentence. Sorry if that sounds racist is basically how we're starting to say all of our sentences these days, because no matter what you say, some dope can figure out a way to twist and turn. As in the case, sorry if this sounds racist, but I really enjoy double chocolate chip cookies. Sorry if this sounds racist, but I had a girlfriend who went to an all-black high school. Do you know what the school chant was? Watermelon Watermelon Cadillac Car We ain't as dumb as you think we is.
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Post by No_Socks_Here on Mar 13, 2019 14:36:09 GMT
Mark McGwire
This POS still hasn't apologized for stealing mega-headlines, along with Sammy "pinkface" Sosa, and doing years worth of PED's.
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