Sally Jenkins is Working on a Book, So She Hasn’t Had Time to Write About Lance Armstrong. Yet She’s Found Time to Write About RG3
Lance Armstrong, the biggest fraud in cycling history, has written two books with Washington Post columnist Sally Jenkins. Perhaps more than any other journalist in the country, Jenkins has tremendous insight into the world of Armstrong. How does it feel to get dropped by NIKE? Surely Jenkins could get Lance to talk, right? Yet the last thing Jenkins wrote about Armstrong for the Post was in August.
First of all, Lance Armstrong is a good man. There’s nothing that I can learn about him short of murder that would alter my opinion on that. Second, I don’t know if he’s telling the truth when he insists he didn’t use performance-enhancing drugs in the Tour de France — never have known. I do know that he beat cancer fair and square, that he’s not the mastermind criminal the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency makes him out to be, and that the process of stripping him of his titles reeks.
Recently, she tells Jim Romenesko, she went on book leave, so she hasn’t penned anything about Lance since the shit hit the fan.
Strangely enough, Jenkins found time in September to write about NFL Replacement Referees, and over the weekend she attended the Giants/Redskins game and wrote about the RG3 vs. Eli Manning finish.
I’m sure the column about her friend, Armstrong, is right around the corner.
Previously: Lance Armstrong’s Charity Saw a Huge Bump Yesterday, But Could Suffer in the Long Run
Previously: Lance Armstrong: Who Cares? No, Really, Who Cares About Him Losing his Tour de France Titles?
Previously: Lance Armstrong Facing New Doping Charges, Again
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October 24th, 2012 at 10:25 AM
You’d have to have experience remorse before a tearful apology, no?
I think I wouldn’t hold my breath on Armstrong apologizing to anyone.
October 24th, 2012 at 10:25 AM
Yeah those oncology doping agents are a real pain in the ass, testing you after every round of chemo to make sure you’re doing it fair and square.
October 24th, 2012 at 10:26 AM
Does he though?
October 24th, 2012 at 10:27 AM
I would be OK with cheating and beating cancer, actually.
/whatever cheating would constitute in beating cancer
October 24th, 2012 at 10:27 AM
Perhaps more than any other journalist in the country, Armstrong has tremendous insight into the world of Armstrong.
I would think Armstrong has tremendous insight into himself. Not sure if he’s a journalist, though.
October 24th, 2012 at 10:27 AM
Ahh fuck, CJ beat me to it.
October 24th, 2012 at 10:27 AM
Playing the cancer card eh? So because Lance did what 99% of all creatures ever did, try to stay alive, he’s above reproach? Fuck that and fuck you Sally Jenkins.
October 24th, 2012 at 10:28 AM
She managed to find time in her busy schedule to dance on Joe Paterno’s grave.
October 24th, 2012 at 10:29 AM
A google search for “Ryan Braun St Jude’s visit” just let me down big time in search of a picture of him with cancer-kids.
October 24th, 2012 at 10:29 AM
Bryant Gumbel went Malcolm X on Lance Armstrong last night at the end of Real Sports. Room got a little dusty during the story about that Iowa volleyball player.
October 24th, 2012 at 10:29 AM
Sally Jenkins is an idiot. That is all.
October 24th, 2012 at 10:29 AM
Despite your below average coverage of cycling, I am pretty sure we all know by now that what the situation is with him. You no longer need that qualifier, dear author.
Armstrong knows Armstrong >>> Bo knows _______
October 24th, 2012 at 10:29 AM
What about rape? Or covering up rape? Or allowing a known rapist to continue to rape?
October 24th, 2012 at 10:30 AM
wonder if daddy dan jenkins, the GOAT of sportswriters, even gives a shit.
October 24th, 2012 at 10:32 AM
Looks like someone is playing fast and loose with the word “nothing”
/sees cleet’s comment
Shit, you beat me to it
October 24th, 2012 at 10:32 AM
Katherine Jenkins>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>x10bn>>>Sally Jenkens
/Team Smoking Hot Welsh Women with their sing-songy accents and quiet alcoholism
October 24th, 2012 at 10:33 AM
“I let the American people down, and I have to carry that burden with me the rest of my life. My corporate life is over. I will never yet and never again have an opportunity to serve in any official capacity.”
Lance Milhouse Armstrong.
October 24th, 2012 at 10:35 AM
If it ever comes out that Hogan was using PEDs to speed up his recovery from the car crash, Dan Jenkins would be spinning in his grave.
Ah, no he wouldn’t. He’d probbaly have another drink and say fuck it.
October 24th, 2012 at 10:36 AM
Modified.
Yeah Lance cheated, but so did everyone else is cycling during that time period. I just don’t care about this.
October 24th, 2012 at 10:38 AM
i doubt hogan wouldve used PED’s…unless there was a PED that could help him putt.
October 24th, 2012 at 10:39 AM
And why are we surprised that someone hasn’t written a column trashing a friend of hers?
October 24th, 2012 at 10:42 AM
Lance Armstrong, the biggest fraud in cycling history,
FRAUD.
No more fraudulent than any other cyclist.
I just don’t care about this.
Neither does TBL which he mentions in almost every Armstrong post.
October 24th, 2012 at 10:43 AM
wonder if daddy dan jenkins, the GOAT of sportswriters, even gives a shit
Frank Deford.
October 24th, 2012 at 10:43 AM
He won 7 titles right. Since 20 of 21 top 3 finishers in the years he won have been linked to doping isn’t cycling the fraud, and he was just part of cycling?
October 24th, 2012 at 10:43 AM
Yeah Lance cheated, but so did everyone else is cycling during that time period. I just don’t care about this.
How many got filthy rich on the guise of cancer “research” because they cheated?
October 24th, 2012 at 10:45 AM
No more fraudulent than any other cyclist.
Yeah b/c all the juicers basically rendered the clean guys irrelavent. Or like Lance they blackballed them out of the Tour. I get that the juicers were the top guys but there were a few guys trying to stay clean. It was just impossible.
October 24th, 2012 at 10:45 AM
Mad Men when Campbell tries to out Don’s secret to Bert Cooper.
Bert Cooper: Who cares?
Basically Sally Jenkens reaction to this; who cares? I have cash money off the lie, fuck you poor puritan pukes climbing over each other to express the most umbrage with what was a publicly accepted falsehood.
October 24th, 2012 at 10:45 AM
You’re all aware that this Livestrong nonsense is nothing more than marketing/branding, right? They don’t donate to research anymore… just “awareness.” Which is all well and good… but Lance Armstrong is the biggest cockbag this side of Zinedine Zidane.
October 24th, 2012 at 10:46 AM
im sure there were guys who took car trips to finish lines and shit…that’s way more fraudulent than a cheater beating a bunch of other cheaters.
October 24th, 2012 at 10:46 AM
A lot of people get filthy rich on the guise of cancer “research” without “cheating.”
October 24th, 2012 at 10:47 AM
Because she is a journalist first. Someone who’s been bad mouthing USADA for trying to expose this cheater. Now that USADA has been vindicated, it only makes sense for her to give us her totally garbage opinion.
October 24th, 2012 at 10:47 AM
Everyone doped though. Everyone. It was actually a level playing field. And his success and foundation did wonders for cancer research. Wonders.
I’m not defending Armstrong because that would be hypocritical given my stance on Bonds and the rest of the baseball cheats. But if he didn’t dope and win, someone else would doped and won. He was the best doping cyclist of all the doping cyclists.
October 24th, 2012 at 10:48 AM
how many “got” filthy “cancer” because “they” cheated rich “research?”
October 24th, 2012 at 10:48 AM
I took great joy in reading the report. I had so many friends call me out for insisting he was cheating the whole time.
One-time Mediocre cyclist somehow wins the most grueling race in the world 7 times in a row… after going through cancer… HAS TO BE CLEAN!
October 24th, 2012 at 10:48 AM
NFL for instance.
October 24th, 2012 at 10:49 AM
I wouldnt trash a friend of mine because he cheated at cycling, journalist or not. And lets not use the words “USADA” and “totally vindicated” in a sentence again. That agency is just as corrupt as the dopers just in a totally different way.
October 24th, 2012 at 10:49 AM
And his success and foundation did wonders for cancer research. Wonders.
For “research” no… it didn’t. And they stopped donating to research all together years ago. Please, read the report on Livestrong.
October 24th, 2012 at 10:49 AM
whomever had the idea for steroid olympics is a genius…i think it was SNL?
October 24th, 2012 at 10:50 AM
but there were a few guys trying to stay clean. It was just impossible.
This point makes the whole culture the problem. I had a buddy ask me,when all the baseball steroid stuff hit, if I could take steroids for 3 years to get a 50 million dollar contract would I do it. I had to say yes. Looking back,if your opponents are cheating and beating you then you have to make a choice, cheat better or stop playing.
October 24th, 2012 at 10:50 AM
For the record I don’t really care that he cheated either. Although the idiots in complete denial the whole time amuse me. After reading up on it, I just think what he’s doing with his foundation and the income he gets from it is super sketchy.
October 24th, 2012 at 10:51 AM
but there were a few guys trying to stay clean. It was just impossible.
aren’t you a Bud Selig hater because he let steroids run rampant? This is funny.
October 24th, 2012 at 10:52 AM
Wyclef Jean levels of sketchy.
October 24th, 2012 at 10:53 AM
These types of posts crack me up. “I knew ______ was doing _______! No one listened despite me having no evidence to support my claim! I was right the whole time!”
It’s like punching a random guy in the face then finding out a year later he’s banging your girlfriend. You weren’t smarter than everyone else. You didn’t have insider knowledge. You just made an unsupported claim that turned out to be true. “You” here being anyone who does stuff like this, not just you.
October 24th, 2012 at 10:53 AM
fraud
See this here pretty much everyday. Somoeone’s trying to create a meme to overshadow /sad. Aint happenin.
/sad
//meme sad
October 24th, 2012 at 10:54 AM
t’s like punching a random guy in the face then finding out a year later he’s banging your girlfriend.
It’s nothing like that. At all.
October 24th, 2012 at 10:54 AM
I believe so, yes. All I remember is Carvey’s character ripping his arms off during a clean-and-jerk.
October 24th, 2012 at 10:55 AM
a) fraud was a meme WAY before /sad
b) gangs of new york sucked
c) pat summitt’s gotta dick
October 24th, 2012 at 10:55 AM
Its exactly like that. What evidence did you have that Lance was cheating? All those drug tests he passed?
October 24th, 2012 at 10:56 AM
It was disappointing. It didnt suck. Cameron Diaz was woefully miscast though.
October 24th, 2012 at 10:56 AM
a) fraud was a meme WAY before /sad
The more you know
October 24th, 2012 at 10:56 AM
She went after USADA. It only makes sense for her to now respond to recently published reports. If she had kept her mouth shut initially, no one would be writing blog posts questioning her silence. And You’re going to have to come up with some hard evidence about the corruption that USADA takes part in. And no, statements from Armstrong doesn’t count as evidence.
October 24th, 2012 at 10:57 AM
stay out of this queefer…this is between me and the mediocre WR for the buffalo bills.
October 24th, 2012 at 10:57 AM
Its exactly like that. What evidence did you have that Lance was cheating?
His leaked positive tests from ’99. The doping wrappers the French caught the USPS throwing in the trash, etc. etc. etc. Oh, and the fact that he won 7 TIMES IN A ROW after being a mediocre at best cyclist. You want me to keep going?
October 24th, 2012 at 10:57 AM
And with this final blow ms621 removes Lance Armstrong’s picture from the inspirational section of his pinterest page.
October 24th, 2012 at 10:58 AM
This is what I don’t get about the national reaction. I am no fan of Armstrong and think he’s one of the biggest douches in sports, but for the past 30 years or so the top cyclists were all doping. He basically was in a level playing field.
/Nothing to see here, move along
October 24th, 2012 at 10:58 AM
Yes, SNL
October 24th, 2012 at 10:59 AM
a) fraud was a meme WAY before /sad Spencer
I’d bet it was the first ever meme here. Gotta be six years old.
October 24th, 2012 at 10:59 AM
So yeah queefer, all the evidence that was used to convict him via this report was out there beforehand if you opened your eyes a little. Unless it wasn’t evidence until the report was written?
October 24th, 2012 at 10:59 AM
anyone got a link to the lance armstrong foundation controversy thing?
October 24th, 2012 at 11:00 AM
well i was saying it too, but qualifying it with “i don’t care because everyone cheats” probably diluted my venom.
October 24th, 2012 at 11:01 AM
And again, I don’t care if he cheated and I don’t care about cycling. I’m more perturbed by the fact that had he not won all of those races, he wouldn’t be collecting 200K speaking fees to talk about his foundation that really does more to line his pockets than cure cancer.
October 24th, 2012 at 11:02 AM
anyone got a link to the lance armstrong foundation controversy thing?
I have to run… but I’ll find it for you and shoot you the link over twitter.
October 24th, 2012 at 11:04 AM
French were unfairly vilified through all this. I remember all the American writers stumbling over themselves to pen the first “Jealous surrender monkeys goes after Captain America” articles when they first raised the issue of him cheating.
October 24th, 2012 at 11:04 AM
Here you go.
October 24th, 2012 at 11:05 AM
But is he keeping that Jodie Foster kiddie porn pic he linked to in the movie discussion yesterday afternoon?
October 24th, 2012 at 11:06 AM
French were unfairly vilified through all this. I remember all the American writers stumbling over themselves to pen the first “Jealous surrender monkeys goes after Captain America” articles when they first raised the issue of him cheating.
Yup. They essentially caught the USPS team red handed and had the wrappers from the drugs… but the American media just called them surrender monkey phonies.
October 24th, 2012 at 11:08 AM
Lance Armstrong, the biggest fraud in cycling history,
im sure there were guys who took car trips to finish lines and shit…that’s way more fraudulent than a cheater beating a bunch of other cheaters.
ROSIE RUIZ approves.
October 24th, 2012 at 11:08 AM
listen…THE FRENCH ARE NEVER UNFAIRLY VILIFIED. stop that nonsense.
October 24th, 2012 at 11:09 AM
What evidence did you have that Lance was cheating? All those drug tests he passed?
OH! I forgot to add.. the dozen or so TEAMMATES who said he did.
October 24th, 2012 at 11:10 AM
Spencer =
http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/biking/road-biking/My-Life-With-Lance-Armstrong.html
or
http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/athletes/lance-armstrong/Its-Not-About-the-Lab-Rats.html
October 24th, 2012 at 11:11 AM
thank you KC.
/throws beer bottle at soused
October 24th, 2012 at 11:12 AM
aren’t you a Bud Selig hater because he let steroids run rampant? This is funny.
I’ve been critical of Bud on some things but I placed a lot of blame on the union too in baseball. Lot of look-awayers. I’d say on the anti-Bud scale of commenters, I am pretty low.
October 24th, 2012 at 11:13 AM
It’s silly to provided passed drug tests as proof of innocence. Considering what we’ve learned about how easy it is to avoid those tests when you know you can’t pass it or how you can take steps to clean your blood prior to testing.
October 24th, 2012 at 11:14 AM
but there were a few guys trying to stay clean. It was just impossible.
Wait, I hope that wasn’t interpreted as a defense of Lance. I was objecting to the point everybody cheated and that made it okay. There were plenty of clean guys. They just didn’t do well because there were so many dopers so they were rendered irrelavent.
October 24th, 2012 at 11:14 AM
Definitely loled
So, your ironclad evidence consists of people Lance continually beat saying that he’s a cheater? I understand it looks obvious in hindsight but come on.
October 24th, 2012 at 11:18 AM
Mad Men when Campbell tries to out Don’s secret to Bert Cooper.
Bert Cooper: Who cares?
This is an all-time scene. I was suprised Pete actually went in and did it.
October 24th, 2012 at 11:18 AM
Those were his teammates and they admitted to cheating too. Have you actually read the report?
October 24th, 2012 at 11:25 AM
You should ask her in her weekly chat. She’s pretty responsive.
October 24th, 2012 at 11:33 AM
anyone got a link to the lance armstrong foundation controversy thing?
Here you go.
you dick.
October 24th, 2012 at 11:45 AM
Sally, Sally, Sally…..always the investigative reporter.