Lance and Anna... sittin' in a tree...

by cg. on Dec 23, 2008 11:14 PM EST Comment 41 comments

So CNN is reporting that Lance is having a baby with someone we've never seen him with.

Thumbs up to to Lance for having a lower profile relationship.

Thumbs down for timing. (Baby's anticipated arrival is in June.) Coming out of retirement to ride the Tour is definitely a creative way to stay out of the delivery room!

Best wishes to all, of course. :)

Not 75. Drat. K I S S I N G...

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What, that's great timing

right in between the Giro and Tour, if Bert had it his way the baby would have been born in July. So is he having it with Mary-Kate or Ashley?(i’m just joking, yes I know it’s with his gf Anna, although I had no idea he had a gf)

"If you go (with a break), you can either win or not win. If you don't go for it, you definitely won't win."
~ Jens Voigt

by Phil H. on Dec 23, 2008 11:30 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

So is Lance going to marry Anna?

Congratulations to them both and I agree with the article that it sounds like it offers hope to other survivors of that cancer with hopes of someday having a family.

"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."

by nikki on Dec 24, 2008 12:40 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Glad you posted this cg. I seem to be all things Lance and Twitter lately

and it was getting embarrassing. I was hoping someone would get this up. No word from Lance on his twitter though. Maybe he is over the Hollywood starlets. He kept this relationship under wraps for awhile.

Hope CNN has double checked their sources.

by ZoeRochelle on Dec 24, 2008 12:48 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

CNN and Lance are pretty close

he’s even written some articles for them, so I don’t think they would want to potentially embarrass him and post a false announcement like this.

"If you go (with a break), you can either win or not win. If you don't go for it, you definitely won't win."
~ Jens Voigt

by Phil H. on Dec 24, 2008 12:55 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Yes

It’s been reported that Lance and CNN are expecting a baby too.

CQRanking.com, you complete me.

by Chris... on Dec 24, 2008 9:16 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

chortle

by gavia on Dec 24, 2008 11:27 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

good one Chris

by ZoeRochelle on Dec 24, 2008 1:10 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Hehe, good one indeed

"If you go (with a break), you can either win or not win. If you don't go for it, you definitely won't win."
~ Jens Voigt

by Phil H. on Dec 24, 2008 1:46 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Lance hasn't Twittered

But Taylor Phinney and Chris Brewer both have said congratulations.

We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950

by CycleGirl on Dec 24, 2008 3:50 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I still won't believe until he Twitters about it.

by Josenka on Dec 24, 2008 1:26 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

LANCE ARMSTRONG ANNOUNCEMENT:

“Anna and I are thrilled to confirm that we are expecting in June and our families are ecstatic and grateful. We are very much looking forward to what 2009 brings on all fronts. We appreciate respecting our privacy, as we are both eager to celebrate the holidays as a family.”

by lucybears on Dec 24, 2008 6:08 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

All I can think of

is this:

Even human breast milk has been shown to do marvellous things for your EPO levels and therefore your blood making abilities.

Kid’s due the month before the Tour, eh?

Google is my domestique.

by majope on Dec 24, 2008 8:15 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

It must have seemed to easy?

As the parent of 3 under 6, the youngest being 14 months, my first thought was that Lance must have looked at his year ahead and decided, “this is all looking too easy, how can I make it more challenging?”

I know, a new born baby in the house!

by muk on Dec 24, 2008 12:29 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

And

have the UCI outlaw nannies. Why should he have unfair advantages?

CQRanking.com, you complete me.

by Chris... on Dec 24, 2008 1:28 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Very creepy idea indeed.

by Josenka on Dec 24, 2008 1:27 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Eh

sorry, but I can’t picture any adult being willing to ingest the baby’s food supply. Ick.

CQRanking.com, you complete me.

by Chris... on Dec 24, 2008 1:29 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

WTF?

Because I would think as a safe, (currently) legal, created-for-human-consumption alternative to sticking yourself in the stomach with a hypodermic full of shit that can kill you, milk would be pretty hard to beat.

Google is my domestique.

by majope on Dec 24, 2008 2:23 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Maybe

But having lived through my sons’ nursing phases, I just really don’t want to insert myself into that loop. So many issues…

CQRanking.com, you complete me.

by Chris... on Dec 24, 2008 9:13 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Means a tad more

Not to pry, but Lance’s illness means his involvement in any pregnancy is through a medical procedure. So they must be pretty serious.

CQRanking.com, you complete me.

by Chris... on Dec 24, 2008 9:17 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Oh and

the timing would be just as deliberate.

CQRanking.com, you complete me.

by Chris... on Dec 24, 2008 9:17 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

It feels to me like he's growing up

And I’m not saying that ironically. Maybe this comeback is not a mid-life crisis. Time to become a man.

by ursula on Dec 24, 2008 9:56 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

He isn't already a man?

I think it’s a mid-life crisis. He already has tons of money, 3 kids, houses.

If I just had one more gear, I...

by SpunOut on Dec 24, 2008 12:22 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Sorry

haven’t you noticed? Most people over the age of 18 aren’t really adults.

by ursula on Dec 24, 2008 2:51 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

According to the article

There was no medical procedure—that’s why it’s such a hopeful thing for other survivors:

Armstrong and Hansen, however, are expecting without the use of any artificial fertilization process. “This is a hopeful thing for testicular cancer survivors,” CNN medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta said. “It means his body healed from the chemotherapy and surgery.”

Google is my domestique.

by majope on Dec 24, 2008 10:08 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Whu?!?!

I had no idea this was possible. Great news!

CQRanking.com, you complete me.

by Chris... on Dec 24, 2008 10:48 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Except that a) it's been well documented and

b) “Certain chemotherapy treatments have been shown to increase the chance of having a fetus with more or less than the normal number of chromosomes. Damage to the structure of chromosomes in sperm of cancer patients may also occur. It is believed that most of the damage is not permanent, but some studies have detected higher than normal levels of abnormal sperm years after the end of chemotherapy.” Statistically, there’s not supposed to be an increase in the number of kids with detectable chromosomal damage, which means it is supposedly safe to assume that the good sperm to outrace the bad ones, despite possibly having more bad ones.

by JFS_PGH on Dec 25, 2008 2:07 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

nope, not so.

See link. Maybe he’s thought he was shooting blanks, between the uniball and the chemo, but it doesn’t work that way. Probably modestly higher risk of birth defects (that’s my “semi-informed supposition” not a result of the study) though presumably not as high as for a woman post-cancer (difference between generation of sperm and eggs).

by JFS_PGH on Dec 25, 2008 1:54 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Cynical

I’d be wanting a DNA test, if I were Lance. Just sayin’.

bethie<——unabashed Lancelover

Sometimes I wonder...why is that Frisbee getting bigger?...and then it hits me.

by bethie on Dec 24, 2008 12:09 PM EST reply actions 1 recs

+1

Not many guys made infertile by loosing a testicle and chemo/radiation are fathering children the old fashion way. Maybe she’s a really smooth talker. “Yeah Lance, of course it’s yours”. Get the test first dude.

If I just had one more gear, I...

by SpunOut on Dec 24, 2008 12:24 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Maybe he just trusts her. That still exists today, right? Trust?

So glad he is over the Hollywood thing. Hopefully that was his mid life crisis and it is past.

ZoeRochelle <———— joins Bethie in the Lance Fan Club

by ZoeRochelle on Dec 24, 2008 1:13 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I'd like to see that, Zoe

Trust, would be nice. Me, I’m old fashioned. I’d like to see them get married, commit to raising the child as a couple as much as that is possible in today’s world, you know? I’d like to see Lance be a role model for couples in this regard as much as a role model for athleticism and cancer survivorship.

Sometimes I wonder...why is that Frisbee getting bigger?...and then it hits me.

by bethie on Dec 24, 2008 4:28 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

It's possible, my wife and I are raising two but

I don’t believe that raising children requires marriage. If the parents can’t make it work, it is better for the children to see two happy but separate parents than married parents that make each other and the children miserable.

If I just had one more gear, I...

by SpunOut on Dec 24, 2008 7:43 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I agree, two happy seperated parents is so much better..

We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950

by CycleGirl on Dec 25, 2008 12:59 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

if he WANTS to be the/a father...

then not taking a DNA test seems like a fine answer. (The rate of [ahem] non-paternity in some of the human genetics pedigrees? Rather startlingly high. Yet no evidence that the fathers and kids involved were any less loving than the ones whose DNA matched.)

by JFS_PGH on Dec 25, 2008 2:10 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

OK, agreed

Also agree that raising children does not require marriage. Actually, who am I to even be speculating about this. I feel totally stupid to even be commenting on the man’s private life in the first place. And no, this is not a comment on any one else’s comments, comment away and I’ll read with interest. It’s a personal thing with me, to stay out of other people’s private business. (Where’s that fucking undo button?)

Happy Christmas everyone.

Sometimes I wonder...why is that Frisbee getting bigger?...and then it hits me.

by bethie on Dec 25, 2008 12:19 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

that button

that fucking undo button

Has never been found. Imagine what a different world we’d be living in if we had one.

by Sui Juris on Dec 25, 2008 1:54 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Verify then trust

Get a test first and believe later. It’s the only smart way today.

If I just had one more gear, I...

by SpunOut on Dec 24, 2008 7:39 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

actually, not true (ie. "not many...")

from a 2005 study about this, “Researchers tracked fatherhood in more than 1,800 testicular cancer survivors…A total of 554 men said they tried to father a child after their cancer treatment. More than two-thirds (68%) succeeded at becoming biological fathers.
Most did so without medical assistance. However, 12 men used banked sperm.”

It does go on to say that the odds were better for men who hadn’t had high-dose chemo (I’m guessing that LA probably had high-dose given the advanced nature of his cancer) … so yet again, it would appear he beat the odds, but certainly not out of the realm of possibility.

by guidemd on Dec 24, 2008 2:41 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

huh, learn something new everyday

thanks!

by gavia on Dec 24, 2008 7:50 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I think Wow, you never know when miracles happen...

We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950

by CycleGirl on Dec 25, 2008 12:59 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

So does this mean I can still have kids???? Glory Beth!!!

LA had very high dose chemo for it’s day….but it is now the definitive treatment for TC in young men. We have one guy in the flatbaggers club that biologically fathered twins with his last root before he had No2 removed and have many nutless guys that have used their banked sperm to add to their joy of life. I sold mine :-)

errrr....am i supposed to sign this??

by Flatbagger on Dec 26, 2008 6:16 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs