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Feb 19, 2021 · Phil Liggett and Paul Sherwen commentating for NBC Sports. Now Liggett (77) says he “couldn’t believe” the way Lance Armstrong spoke to him the first time they met after Sherwen’s death. Phil Liggett, the cycling commentator, said he “couldn’t believe” the remarks Lance Armstrong made to him the first time they spoke after Paul ...
It came just two years ago, months after the sudden death of Liggett’s beloved co-commentator Paul Sherwen, when American TV network NBC employed Armstrong to provide comments down the line ...
Dec 6, 2018 · Doug Pensinger/Getty Images. By Ian Austen. Dec. 6, 2018. Paul Sherwen, who raced in the Tour de France and then became a longtime voice of commentary on that and other major cycling events for ...
Dec 3, 2018 · Lance Armstrong, who won the Tour seven times before being stripped of his championships after a major doping scandal, wrote about meeting Sherwen in 1992, when he worked as a press officer for ...
Dec 3, 2018 · As the Tour became more international in the 1990s, Liggett and Sherwen were poised to bring cycling to an ever-growing international audience. Live broadcasts and the arrival of the controversial and brash Lance Armstrong pushed Tour ratings even higher.
Oct 9, 2023 · It was there he first met Lance Armstrong, whose reign of seven Tour de France wins ran parallel to Sherwen’s prime years behind the microphone. Sherwen was Motorola’s press officer at the 1995 Tour when Motorola’s Fabio Casartelli died on the descent of the Col de Portet d’Aspet, in the Pyrenees.
Jul 25, 2005 · Jul 25, 2005 12:00 AM EDT. Lance Armstrong won his seventh -- and final -- Tour de France Sunday. A former cyclist and television commentator discusses Armstrong's last victory.
