Lance Armstrong settles $100m USPS case for $5m

Disappointing to settle for so little. With all the costs of the last five years of this, they're probably not even breaking even. Armstrong must be over the moon. He doesnt have so sell his houses, companies etc, he can surely afford to pay this out of his cheque account.

I didnt want him bankrupted, but wanted it to be more of a detterent than 5% of his net worth. There is zero incentive for current riders not to dope if they get to keep 95% of their wealth. A TdF champ seems to make about $5m salary and probably could do that or more in sponsorship/endorsements. So dope like crazy, win TdF, make tons of money, get busted and keep 95% of it ... Or you ride clean and never win TdF and make 95% less than the winner.

Disappointing. 

How about sparing a million or two to share amongst us road.cc chappies?

Who?

The whole thing about chasing LA for damages is fucking ridiculous, USPS have not being negatively impacted, they're a state organisation for one thing and people have little option but to choose them for their ordinary mailings.

Given what has gone on before with other big names and their serial doping (Merckx, Moser onwards) it's literally only the one person being hammered when in fact he promoted cycling in one of the bigest markets massively, he benefitted everyone, yes including himself but he has also lost the most including the frankly utterly preposterous removal of the titles in an era known to be loaded with dope cheats.

I made my feelings known about his resurgence after the cancer and knew he was on the gear long before most and seemingly those who simply wouldn't entertain that cycling was still full of dopers.

However I think the way he has being vilified and dragged through the gutter and beyond plus the financial claims are beyond the pale, I only wish that individuals who continue to attack Armstrong and black ball him, attack governments and private organisations as brutally and with as much vigour, you know the people that invariably are fucking us over as opposed a person who cheated but made cycling very entertaining and helped many people make a shit ton of money including the ones that are now fucking him over.

Oakley and Trek chiefs to sue next because they made way too much money off the back of Lance's career and are having trouble sleeping at night with this heavy weight on their shoulders.

It was a crock of shit anyway. The sponsors all gained due benefit at the time without any real comeback on it. Why should anyone be paying $100m over it?

Landis comes across as the sore loser here. If he hadn't been so shit at cheating he'd be the thing of legend. The truth was forced upon him, I doubt he'd have be so free with it otherwise.

Wow.. I wasn't expecting that.. Lord Voldemort has got away with that lightly considering what was at stake..

I for one am pleased to see the end of this story and for Voldemort who's had the threat of a $100m bill hanging over him for years now, he can finally get on with his life as can everyone involved with a bit of closure. The truth's been out there for years..  No one would have benefitted from this going all the way. No murderers here just disgruntled fans and sportspeople. Everyone's made some cash out of the story over the years. Move on. 

What a crock of $hit. Betsy Andreu must be combusting with rage.
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