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Not long after Lance Armstrong tweeted birthday greetings to three people, his ex-wife, a popular ESPN anchor and his former boss, Johan Bruyneel, the directeur sportif at US Postal when a pair of disgraced cyclists won eight Tours de France in a row (Alberto Contador being the other), he linked to the statement which sent shockwaves around the US sporting world late on Thursday night.
Yesterday (Friday), @JohanBruyneel was concise in his tweeted reaction to the avalanche of damning criticism of his good friend (“Pathetic...”). Kathy LeMond, wife of Greg LeMond, another US Tour winner (1986, 1989 and 1990), was equally thrifty with her characters: “Finally”.