Lance Armstrong, Sheryl Crow Engaged
AP - Seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong and rock star Sheryl Crow are engaged. The cyclist announced the engagement in a statement Monday, and said he asked Crow on Wednesday while they were in Sun Valley, Idaho.
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Armstrong, Crow split five months after engagement
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Lance Armstrong and Sheryl Crow have split, the couple announced in a joint statement Friday night. The seven-time Tour de France champion and the rock star announced their engagement in September. It would have been her first marriage and his second. He has three children from a previous marriage. |
As with most sports stars (look at MJ as an example), they forget where they come from and who they owe their talent to. Well, I won't go into the religious rants of paying homage to God, so I will refrain and focus on their family. Come on - wake up - who was with you when you were down and out? Who gave you the courage? When you turn back on your family, no matter if you are Armstrong you will lose in the end regardless of your success. Winning at a sport cannot excuse losing at home. Having beaten cancer I am sure Armstrong probably thought he had achieved some kind of invincibility and went 'wild' as it were, but it seems he is being brought back to earth.
One of the things I had admired of Armstrong was that he wasn't a celebrity. Instead he was a man who wanted to fight the odds, and compete in a sport he loved. Then he left his wife and children, shacked up with a celebrity singer, and like you said JB, it all got to his head, I think. That's when I got turned off by him. Now he is facing all kinds of accusations of taking enhancement drugs during his first Tour. I considered him someone that kids could look up to, now he is just another superstar athlete with a big ego, it seems.
Armstrong trial ends after charges get withdrawn
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Lance Armstrong's defamation trial ended Thursday after charges were withdrawn by Italian cyclist Filippo Simeoni Armstrong also withdrew his defamation action against Simeoni, the lawyer for the Tour de France great said. Neither Armstrong nor Simeoni was at the court in Latina, near Rome |