If people have to begin to obscure the crucial little things in her life and talked away, they do so often because they in the preliminary stage of a difficult Location imagine. Thus, the person produces when trying to explain things that can explain you do not, because they must be passed very different, a fatal tendency to deal with the truth or say we're better with the truth. Just as today, the attorney of Lance Armstrong, who will meet on behalf of his client's credibility crisis in which the cyclist is advised.
Armstrong was asked on Wednesday morning before the tenth stage of the Tour de France after his interests in cycling management firm Tailwind who had U.S. Postal raised team where he once went with Floyd Landis at the start. And what he said in many, many words from his mouth always so colorful and at the same sound as clear and as if the rest of the world is too stupid to understand the action of the seven-time Tour winner: "The most glaring thing is the misconception that I was the owner of the team that is complete. wrong. No owner, not at all. It was not my company. I can towards you not say clearly enough. I had no body hold. I had no part. I did not get any profits. I do not sit on the board. I was Clearly, a driver in the team. I can not say it. "
Maybe he says things like that, because he thinks the rest of the world is too stupid to check his own comments. Or because he over the years many people in his Environment, intimidation, fear got in front of the long arm of his powerful influence in the industry. The American media have long understood time as a cheerleader from Armstrong, because they simply wanted to believe that he was clean. That the French were simply spiteful and bring him down, because he wanted to be Americans. And that the few people who had the courage to divulge what they knew to pursue any lower motive. Although they threatened with their anti-Armstrong statements their job prospects.
tempi passati. It did not last very long, as had the first hard-working reporters and bloggers the relevant places in the transcript of the interrogation Lance Armstrong found in an arbitration proceeding in 2005. In which he had sworn said something completely different. That was so in a few hours, and he disavowed all this pseudo-puritanical seriousness. And this is so in many newspapers. When asked by the opposing lawyer whether he thought a share of Tailwind, he said then: "A little." In response to the request to clarify that, he said: "Maybe ten percent." was precise about the timing of his business he does not leave entry. He looked as if it the details of such a business relationship rather little interest. Sun hacked the lawyer does not further it around:
"Who would ? Know the answer, when you bought a share in Tailwind "he wanted to know
Armstrong referred to his manager and called his name:". Bill Stapleton "
" Is this documented in writing? Is there a share certificate or other documents that confirm your share of Tailwind ?
Armstrong: "I am sure that there is the"
This afternoon tried Armstrong attorney Tim Herman from the obvious and striking contradiction between the two statements. explain away. The rider had to get loud while board resolution from the year 2004 a share, but was only awarded in December 2007. Interesting, because this contradicts the minimum Statement of the said Bob Stapleton, dated September 2005, which was then heard in the same case and declared the following: Armstrong was one of ten or 15 Tailwind- partners. Its share of 11.5 percent. Out that this statement under oath at that time not fit for today's entering, was a non Herman. Two people have been wrong then? And then also the statement of Stapleton was wrong, that Tailwind the winter / spring 2003/2004 having been managed by Stapleton's company Capital Sports & Entertainment where Armstrong had a considerable share? This we know from the minutes of the interrogation in 2005. received for the management role CSE a share in Tailwind of 11.5 percent.
Before we lose ourselves in the details, here again makes the whole thing: Armstrong denies today what he and his manager did testify under oath in 2005. Why? Because he has heard that his investigating authorities were taking the allegations seriously Landis, as participants will staple a charge of fraud and conspiracy in the cap. So it is contested that he was a partner. It is interesting but also has worked with smoke grenade which his lawyer today. Then Armstrong will be the end of 2007 became a shareholder in Tailwind , although the company lost just at the time their only relevant source of income - the money sponsors of Discovery Channel ? The Discovery team had been dissolved earlier.
did not again until today, an American media outlet - NBC Sports - uncovered these facts and thus pointed out that Lance Armstrong has chosen to build its house of cards a bad architect: himself, the pressure of the the criminal investigation and fairly precise allegations of Floyd Landis is not less but more. A company called Tailwind Sports Corporation, which had been registered in California, led the way since 2002 as an address the same address as Capital Sports & Entertainment and put up Armstrong's bike shop.
right perspective: my story for the Friday edition of the FAZ . Given the reference to a informative interview Sebastian Moll with a U.S. special prosecutor accused of doping athletes in the Financial Times .
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