Lance Armstrong Responds to El Pistolero

On Ventoux Armstrong stayed with Frank Schleck to protect his own spot on the podium he was five minutes behinf Alberto. You should track down the story about how Contador went to the hotel lobby before the Time Trial & Lance had sent all extra cars to the airport to pick up family and friends. Alberto had to have his brother pick him up & rush him to the start. He had radio roblems during the stage but won on his own.
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Here’s the BBC translation of the most important part of the
Contador video:
"Well, my relationship with Lance is zero. My relationship with him is
zero. I think that independently of what his character is, he’s still a great
champion. He’s won seven Tours and
played a big part in this one, too. But it’s different to speak at a personal
level. I have never really admired him that much, or will ever, but of course
as a cyclist, he is a great champion."
Add in the bits about the hotel being the worst part, and it affecting the rest
of the team and staff, and it’s still really tame after the abuse he had to
take.
A promise from Bruyneel at the Astana Camp in Tenerife:
"If Lance is not the best, he will become the best teammate Alberto could
ever have dreamed of," he said."

who is the ignorant fool that wrote this article? It was good except for the CANCER part.  I’m so sorry that the word CANCER is annoying for you to hear.  Have you had CANCER?  I have.  And the chemo alone is enough to kill a person.  It kind of changes you as a person once you’ve gone through it.  Usually, for the better, such as in Lance’s case.  Maybe you should have a few months of chemo to cure your CANCER.

Without getting into the controversy of who’s at fault, I find it exceedingly unlikely that Armstrong told Contador that "there is no i in ‘team’".  I can imagine Alberto scratching his head… "But there is an i in equipo!"

My point is that that quip is very unlikely to be understood by a non-native English speaker and therefor verye unlikely to be used by a native English speaker that wants to be understood.

I’d say Armstrong lied.

There is a Me in team