Wednesday, October 17, 2012

All My Heroes

All my heroes are
Dead or disgraced.

I look up or down
To no one but I wish
I could again.

The wide-eyed boy
Died with the dream that
A single moment - as small as it might be,
In sports or life - can change our history.

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  1. Man, this is the truth.. I love it.. They all stink.

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    1. Yeah, can't believe Lance did that. It's bad enough to hook yourself, but others too...

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  2. i was watching the movie dodgeball the other day. lance makes a cameo, he gives a monologue to inspire vince vaughn's character to persevere through the obstacles. now it just comes across as so phony.

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  3. Cheating catches up with you I think...at least I hope it does, because I hate it when cheaters make out well. A single moment....yep!

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  4. Sad write, Ben. My husband and I were talking last night about how all of us humans are flawed---from politicians to sports heroes to people you work with. My favorite saying is there was one perfect man on earth and the people crucified Him. xoxo

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    1. Too true, Marion. I just wish Lance had been a little less flawed.

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  5. So sad and since my oldest daughter is a cancer survivor she especially looked up to Lance.

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  6. Yeah, I was REALLY disappointed when I heard about him too. This is a sad (and good) poem.

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    1. Thanks, Heather. I'm trying to think if the good his foundation did outweighs the lie. But I don't know.

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  7. I was saddened with the news too....I read that he and his team made elaborate plans to hide it as well ~

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  8. From everything I have read none of the clames against him have been substantiated... there has never been a positive drug test, and the people who have been stripping his titles from him don't have the authority to, and have been told to seece and desist...

    Not sure but I still think he is innocent until proven guilty

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    1. After reading more on this...the only thing they have to go on are the words of others...some of whome do not even name Armstrong...
      If it was as strong as all that the federal court would have charged him...

      Not saying it doesn't look bad but I would think for how many times he was drug tested he would have a positive test...

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  9. He had an appeal...but he would have been asking the people going after him to give him another chance to prove his case...innocent or guilty he had no chance of swaying them...so was smart, and a money saverto just stop fighting them...

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  10. Shame that a lot of sports people end up this way. Nice way to put it Ben.

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