Lance Armstrong's books being moved to Fiction section in Australia

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OCD_OCD: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/lance_tall_tales_shifted_7QbJmcoutCSY3qur2ceDYL

He fooled anti-doping watchdogs for years, but now Lance Armstrong can’t even outwit the Dewey Decimal System.

The Manly Library in Sydney, Australia, is moving all of its books about the disgraced cyclist to where they belong — the fiction section.

“All nonfiction Lance Armstrong titles, including ‘Lance Armstrong: Images Of A Champion,’ ‘The Lance Armstrong Performance Program’ and ‘Lance Armstrong: World’s Greatest Champion,’ will soon be moved to the fiction section,” a sign announced over the weekend.

The move follows the 41-year-old Armstrong’s long-delayed confession last week that he relied on performance-enhancing drugs to place first in seven Tour de France competitions.

For years he lied about taking the drugs but has since been stripped of all his titles for cheating and banned from the sport.

He pleaded for forgiveness during the interview with Oprah Winfrey last week and said he wanted to compete again.

It’s unclear if the Manly Library will spark a worldwide trend of removing books about Armstrong from the non-fiction section trend.
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OCD_OCD: Good. I hope the rest of the world joins in. That is where he belongs.
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Tomacco
Tomacco: I laugh at 'I want to compete again' When did he ever compete?? He should be jailed for fraud.
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OCD_OCD
OCD_OCD: He is an incredible fraud and was apparently the Mafia Don of competitive sports.
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Tomacco
Tomacco: He wrecked countless people's lives and reputations. Even profited in court from it. He wasn't even sorry, only sorry he was caught.

''If I had not returned in 2009/10 I would of got away with it'' <<<his only regret!
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OCD_OCD
OCD_OCD: Yep. That's him. Unrepentant until the end, which cannot come soon enough. He and his "accomplishments" need to be relegated to the trash bin.
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LiptonCambell
LiptonCambell: Seems emotional and petty to me....i agree, the man shouldn't be permitted to be in the sport any longer, and he is a disgrace, but, i mean, some of those books weren't even written by Armstrong....should these authors be disgraced for his actions? Its not like they were 'in on it'....
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OCD_OCD
OCD_OCD: I don't know, Lipton. Everything the man did was based on deception. He had talent, he just preferred not to play on a level playing field because he chose to win at all costs. The authors who made money based on his years of deception have already made the money they are going to make based on his lies.

If Lance writes (or has a ghost-writer write) his biography or memoirs, I hope it sits and gathers dust.
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SillySally8
SillySally8: i feel bad for his boy....hearing all this bout his Dad
i wonder if that's what sparked his confession? hmmmmm
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OCD_OCD
OCD_OCD: Getting caught with undeniable proof is more likely his reason. He is having the bejeezus sued out of him from everyone.
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SillySally8
SillySally8: yeah..but when his boy asked him straight out..isn't that when he came clean?(<--- not clean as in "i am not on enhancers" LOLzzzz
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OCD_OCD
OCD_OCD: ha-ha-ha!
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jink88
jink88: I was thinking...good job he put his resources into trying to outwit the sport instead of being a spy. Would have made a good one scary.
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OCD_OCD
OCD_OCD: I think spies probably have more finesse. Sounds like Lance was just a bully.
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jink88
jink88: Maybe a dictator?
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OCD_OCD
OCD_OCD: Yeah. He'd make a good dictator. All he needs is a tin hat. He's got the attitude.
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Aura
Aura: It is unlikely Europe will join in. I know not how into cycling you are, but where I come from it's both a big deal and a big joke. There will be hundreds if not thousands of people who feel doping IS the level playing field. That might be a little harsh because the sport did try it's very hardest to clean up their image. But the public memory is long.
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OCD_OCD
OCD_OCD: Really? Doping is that rampant in cycling there?

One of my brothers rides and races and I don't know whether he was more devastated or disgusted finding out about Lance.
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OCD_OCD
OCD_OCD: I mean, my brother doesn't ride professionally, but he does do lots of bike races and marathons. It's not common at all in the amateur races/marathons.
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Aura
Aura: But that's also understandable. Really, what man would take a substance known to shrink the size of their manhood if they do not stand to gain financially from it?
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Aura
Aura: ouch, kind of a bitter thought, how much of his cancer did he bring on himself? A real question. I am going to google it.
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OCD_OCD
OCD_OCD: But was it chemicals or was it more blood doping? To be honest, I'm not sure. Maybe he was doing chemicals earlier in his career. I should look it up also.
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Aura
Aura: Well i'm not the first to ask the question, and the answer is we don't know. No studies done.
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OCD_OCD: Emma O’Reilly
Emma O’Reilly was the U.S. Postal cycling team’s soigneur, responsible for massaging the cyclists, laundering clothes, booking hotel rooms and preparing food. O’Reilly, an Irish woman, has said she became a regular player in the team’s doping program during the 1999 Tour de France, transporting doping materials across borders, disposing of drugs and syringes and distributing performance-enhancing substances to the team’s riders, she told The New York Times. Ultimately, she would provide key evidence to the USADA’s investigation into Armstrong’s doping.
O’Reilly said she was contacted by journalist David Walsh to be a source for his book about Armstrong, "LA Confidential," in which she described an incident when she heard the team worrying about Armstrong’s positive test for steroids during the Tour. She said, “They were in a panic, saying, ‘What are we going to do? What are we going to do?’”
According to O’Reilly, the solution was to get one of their doctors to issue a pre-dated prescription for a steroid-based ointment to combat saddle sores. O’Reilly said that Armstrong told her: “Now, Emma, you know enough to bring me down.”

Looks like it was both.
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Geoff
Geoff: The sign was a joke. A spokesperson for the library service announced that "Even librarians have a sense of humour."
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Aura
Aura: It's probably literal and wordplay humor too
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