No, I'm not talking about that seat-burn he used to get during the Tour de France every year.
First of all, Lance is in trouble with Richard Sandomir of the New York Times for telling a poor-taste "anal-sex joke" while hosting the ESPYs last week. (Sandomir, however, doesn't say what the joke is. And since I purposely skipped the ESPYs, I can't say either.*)
Meanwhile, Armstrong is also "facing a wave of Gallic outrage," according to the Times of London, because he referred to France's soccer team as -wait for it- "assholes."
*The joke, according to the transcript, was Armstrong asking actor Jake Gyllenhaal, who was in "Brokeback Mountain,"
"JAKE, WHY ARE YOU SITTING IN THE FRONT? I THOUGHT YOU LIKED IT IN THE REAR. (LAUGHTER) THE REAR OF THE THEATER YOU SICK PEOPLE, COME ON!"Not so much offensive, as just plain not particularly funny. Posted by Stephen Silver at July 19, 2006 12:38 AM