Posted by: AG« on: January 17, 2013, 11:38 »and some major stuff is finally starting
Livestrong, Sporting KC terminate deal on stadium name Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2013/01/15/4012901/livestrong-sporting-kc-terminate.html#storylink=cpy#storylink=cpy Posted by: Dim« on: November 15, 2012, 12:35 »No longer known as the Lance Armstrong Foundation. Now simply called Livestrong Foundation.
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/livestrong-foundation-drop-armstrong-from-title-name Posted by: kabloemski« on: November 13, 2012, 01:21 »"@TheDailyShow: #TDSBreakingNews Lance Armstrong steps down as board member of Livestrong. Cancer reacts: "I wanted to win, but not like this."
Posted by: AG« on: November 12, 2012, 23:26 »step in the right direction.
only a baby step though. I have absolutely no doubt he is still intricately involved in the organisation ... and will be paid accordingly Posted by: Dim« on: November 12, 2012, 13:36 »Armstrong has now resigned completely from the Livestrong Board.
Quote AUSTIN — Disgraced cycling great Lance Armstrong has cut ties with his cancer-fighting charity amid his doping scandal. Associated Press Posted by: Dim« on: October 28, 2012, 01:51 »Norwegians upset that the money they paid for Lance to attend events in Oslo may not have gone to livestrong
http://www.vg.no/sport/sykkel/artikkel.php?artid=10055415 Posted by: just some guy« on: October 23, 2012, 13:17 »http://tourdejose.com/2012/10/23/a-shocking-disregard-for-life-my-personal-opinion-on-lance-armstrong/
Tour De José “A shocking disregard for life” – my personal opinion on Lance Armstrong Posted by: just some guy« on: October 23, 2012, 10:50 »this couple want their Livestrong donation back, plus money they help raise
http://velonews.competitor.com/2012/10/news/must-read-some-former-livestrong-supporters-want-their-money-back_262073 Posted by: Icebreaker« on: October 20, 2012, 21:04 »Some people started digging into liestrong in 2010. they posted some blogs and got lambasted in the comments. Made them dig even deeper and find more non charity behaviour ;D Funny that has come back, I remember reading that blog a couple of years ago. I think it is pretty good work. Posted by: benotti69« on: October 20, 2012, 20:48 »Some people started digging into liestrong in 2010. they posted some blogs and got lambasted in the comments. Made them dig even deeper and find more non charity behaviour ;D
http://fraudbytes.blogspot.dk/search?q=livestrong&max-results=20&by-date=true Posted by: just some guy« on: October 20, 2012, 19:01 »Ok, so I know Lance is a pr*ck and all, but having had two family members suffer from the disease, I'm not really prepared to believe that he faked cancer, unless there is some pretty strong evidence to back it up. I agree but it just shows what a man he is that you would even think it. I did think before posting but my wife and I have dealt with cancer in our familys alot this last year and shows my opionion of the man Posted by: BadbrainAJ« on: October 20, 2012, 14:51 »Even i feel a little evil thinking this.I would assume brain surgery would leave obvious scarring.
Posted by: Dancing on the Pedals« on: October 20, 2012, 14:27 »Ok, so I know Lance is a pr*ck and all, but having had two family members suffer from the disease, I'm not really prepared to believe that he faked cancer, unless there is some pretty strong evidence to back it up.
Posted by: just some guy« on: October 20, 2012, 12:15 »Myths falling fast
500 test - busted Raced clean - busted Does not receive payments for livestrong work - busted Are we sure he had Cancer ? Edit just read the article :-[ appears I am not the 1st to wonder if there was a cancer scam Posted by: ansimi« on: October 20, 2012, 10:51 »I doubt the financing/tax went down exactly as described in that article.
Normally (I'm talking Canada at least) you can't get a tax receipt for the full amount of your charitable "donation" if you've gotten something of significant value in return. The ride itself (and awareness directly from Lance!) had a benefit that people purchased and it was probably assessed at $10,000 which seems pretty reasonable to me. Armstrong's appearance fee may well have been equivalent to $10,000 per person but I don't think it's directly related to the tax receipt. Posted by: L'arriviste« on: October 20, 2012, 06:33 »Creepy stuff but the sort of story I like to read: the reality of these 'charity events' is that posterity records a photo with a forced smile and that's what they publish. Get a journo to trump up the story and who's going to say it didn't go swimmingly? Not you, because you don't diss charity work, right? You don't diss cancer.
"It's for a good cause" hides a multitude of sin, while Lance's profit gets hidden by a multitude of spin. Posted by: Icebreaker« on: October 20, 2012, 06:21 »The story on CNN is true. I was at both of those events.
One of the things people need to keep in mind is that with a few exceptions the people doing these rides are not "rich yuppies". Remember the environment, Livestrong was at its peak. Corporations take a lot of heat from the public but one of the things they do is a lot of community service, volunteer labour type events and they tend to do a lot charity fundraising type events. So a lot of these people were low or mid level employees who won the contests at their employers to go on the rides. I feel sorry for those people. There were a couple of people who rode both of those events, both days, and it was pretty clear they were on their own dimes. What is described pretty much fits what happened, both at those and at the one in BC the next weekend. I have wondered ever since why Revenue Canada didn't chase it down harder as it was certainly talked about at the time, and some of the local news and radio people were on it, but that was a really unpopular story line at the time, and they just got no traction on the stories. I have always thought that the thing that would get Armstrong, Bruyneel and the whole Livestrong sham, eventually, would be the tax authorities in various countries. This stuff was pretty blatant. It wasn't hidden. I did send a link to this article to the one particular radio guy that was all over this at the time, maybe I can get him stirred up again. And just as a BTW - there was a certain aged Englishman on the L/S plane as well. Posted by: AG« on: October 20, 2012, 01:26 »oh Dim.
If I could thank you 100 times for that I would. Posted by: Dim« on: October 19, 2012, 23:12 »Lance profits from Livestrong ride?
Posted by: Dim« on: October 17, 2012, 14:26 »Jeff Garvey steps in as acting chairman. He was in charge anyway. And hes as tied up in everything, if not more tied up in everything than Lance is.
Jeff Garvey - Original founding Chair of Livestrong. founder of Austin ventures, who invest in amongst others the Mapmyfitness group (map my ride etc). They also own bazaarvoice a PR Strategy company tasked with turning bad news good. Clients include, Trek, Oakley, Livestrong, Radioshack, etc etc... Also managed through Weisel to get on teh board of US Cycling Development Foundation, and board member at US Cycling (Seeing a pattern yet). Also on the board at Lances Bike Shop, Mellow JOhnnys. |
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