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Offline StarOfAfrica2

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Is this like the French version of "Where's Waldo?"
« on: January 20, 2005, 04:50:19 PM »
Here we go again, they are still trying to pin doping allegations on Lance Armstrong.

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French Police Ivestigating Allegations Against Armstrong
Book Claims Cyclist Asked Woman to Pick Up Pills, Dispose of Syringes

ANNECY, France (Jan. 20) - French authorities have opened a preliminary inquiry into doping allegations made against six-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong in a book published last summer.
   
Judicial officials confirmed the probe Thursday but declined to give details, describing the case as confidential.

Prosecutor Philippe Drouet was not available for comment. Calls Thursday by the Associated Press to Armstrong's press officer, Jogi Muller, were not immediately returned.

The investigation centers on a magistrate's interview with Armstrong's former British assistant, Emma O'Reilly.

Shortly before last year's Tour de France, O'Reilly made allegations in a book "LA Confidential, The Secrets of Lance Armstrong." She claimed that Armstrong sent her on long road trips to pick up pills and dispose of used syringes.

According to Thursday's edition of Le Parisien newspaper, O'Reilly flew in from Liverpool, England, in July to confirm to French magistrates what she'd told authors David Walsh and Pierre Ballester in the book.

Le Parisien also said narcotics police questioned O'Reilly and other witnesses close to Armstrong.

Armstrong is suing Walsh and Ballester for defamation and is asking $2.6 million in damages.

Last month, Armstrong scored a victory in his ongoing libel case against The Sunday Times of London. A judge in London's High Court said in a preliminary ruling that the paper had wrongly repeated and had sensationalized doping allegations first made in the book.


01/20/05 16:02 EST
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Is this like the French version of "Where's Waldo?"
« Reply #1 on: January 20, 2005, 04:53:36 PM »
:lol
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« Reply #2 on: January 20, 2005, 07:47:48 PM »
This is pretty shameful.  If they had solid leads, maybe, but this is just over-the-top slandering.
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« Reply #3 on: January 20, 2005, 07:50:35 PM »
Sucks to get beat at your own game-SIX TIMES, by a cancer survivor, even.
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« Reply #4 on: January 20, 2005, 10:09:53 PM »
Those  French...  they have a different word for everything....
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« Reply #5 on: January 21, 2005, 12:56:05 AM »
French authorities are investigating claims by Armstrong's former British assistant...whats the problem?

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« Reply #6 on: January 21, 2005, 01:25:51 AM »
anyone with the slightest inside knowledge of pro cycling knows that each and every competitor has to use illegal substances.

that's just the way it always has been in pro cycling, even a hundred years ago...

so it's not a french crusade against armstrong, don't get your red white and blue bandwagon patriot panties in a bunch guys.
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« Reply #7 on: January 21, 2005, 09:46:38 AM »
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anyone with the slightest inside knowledge of pro cycling knows that each and every competitor has to use illegal substances.

that's just the way it always has been in pro cycling, even a hundred years ago...

so it's not a french crusade against armstrong, don't get your red white and blue bandwagon patriot panties in a bunch guys.


Himm....? So what color would a French bandwagon be...?
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« Reply #8 on: January 21, 2005, 09:53:59 AM »
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Himm....? So what color would a French bandwagon be...?


it doesnt matter, they are all easily identified by the white flag
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« Reply #9 on: January 21, 2005, 10:11:13 AM »
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Himm....? So what color would a French bandwagon be...?

Blue white and red and in that order ...

@furby : arr arr ...
aren't you Amerrukan by chance ?
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« Reply #10 on: January 21, 2005, 10:29:26 AM »
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Blue white and red and in that order ...

@furby : arr arr ...
aren't you Amerrukan by chance ?
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« Reply #11 on: January 21, 2005, 10:30:06 AM »
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it doesnt matter, they are all easily identified by the white flag


I know I promised no more country bashing so I'm just gonna say...


Pfft...damn that was funny.
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