{"id":1698,"date":"2014-03-09T22:26:17","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T02:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/?p=1698"},"modified":"2014-03-09T22:32:54","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T02:32:54","slug":"lance-armstrong-briefly-dated-ashley-olsen-before-handlers-told-him-to-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/2014\/03\/09\/lance-armstrong-briefly-dated-ashley-olsen-before-handlers-told-him-to-stop\/","title":{"rendered":"Lance Armstrong briefly dated Ashley Olsen before handlers told him to stop"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Once there was a rumor that Lance Armstrong and former Full House star Ashley Olsen was dating. They were even spotted making out once.<\/p>\n

\u00a0“Lance was hanging with her, definitely. [Olsen] was very flirtatious, and was sitting on his lap.” a witness told People<\/a> back in 2007.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ah but that was it… or was it?<\/span><\/p>\n

In a new tell-all book about Armstrong,\u00a0New York Times\u00a0<\/em>writer Juliet Macur says that the two dated before his handlers warned him his relationship with her could negatively impact his cancer work.<\/p>\n

Armstrong was 36 at the time, while Olsen was 21.<\/p>\n

According to\u00a0Macur’s book<\/a>\u00a0Cycle of Lies,\u00a0<\/em>Armstrong’s\u00a0friend and head of his Livestrong Foundation,\u00a0John Korioth, “warned the 36-year-old father of three that his May-December romance could damage his cancer work.”<\/p>\n

Macur says that Korioth told Armstrong, “Whoa, dude, bad idea. You’ve got to put a stop to this right now,”<\/p>\n

Armstrong reportedly responded, “She’s 21\u2026F–k you.”<\/p>\n

The relationship ended after about a year and so too did Armstrong’s claims of being clean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Once there was a rumor that Lance Armstrong and former Full House star Ashley Olsen was dating. They were even spotted making out once. \u00a0“Lance was hanging with her, definitely. [Olsen] was very flirtatious, and was sitting on his lap.” a witness told People back in 2007. Ah but that was it… or was it? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"coauthors":[3],"class_list":{"0":"post-1698","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1698"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1703,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions\/1703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1698"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}