UPDATE: Armstrong will be on Kornheiser's radio show Friday. The show starts at 10 a.m., but we don't know when Armstrong will be on.
Tony Kornheiser went off on cyclists last week -- at one point even saying "run them over" -- and now Lance Armstrong wants to throw him under the bus.
Kornheiser's rant on ESPN Radio 980 was in reaction to the addition of bicycling lanes in Washington, D.C. It began as a discussion about sharing the road but soon disintegrated into an attack on anyone who rides on two wheels. Said Kornheiser of cyclists:
"And they all, my God, with their water bottles in the back, and their stupid hats, and their shiny shorts, they're the same kind of disgusting posers that in a snowstorm come out with cross-country skis on your block. Run them down."
Kornheiser later modified that to, "So you tap them. I'm not saying kill them."
That inspired two tweets from Armstrong today:
"Listening to Tony Kornheiser's comments/rant on ESPN radio re: cyclists. Disgusting, ignorant, foolish. What a complete f-ing idiot."
And:
"Not happy about Kornheiser's comments? Let them know @ESPNRadio980, @ptishow, and here http://www.espn980.com/info/contact_us.php"
Maybe we can get Kornheiser to do a timely followup, on what he thinks of Hannah Storm wearing biking apparel.
-- Tom Weir
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