Oakley Saved Lance Armstrong's Life

[Rick Darge]

Awesome article about it, http://outside.away.com/magazine/0498/9804lance.html


Armstrong had no health insurance. When he was diagnosed with cancer, Oakley made him an employee and threatened to switch insurers if he wasn't covered.

That's loyalty for you. Amazing.

 

[Imran Farouk]

Thats a mark of an ethical company with its morals in the right place...

 

[Darren Orange]

Wow, I did not know that. Thats pretty awesome.

 

[A. Bastaki]

See now that's the kinda people i just fucking love.

 

[Jean-Charles Wolfarth]

Yes, you can see it this way. Or you can see it another way : he's lucky to know the right persons. What about all the other Americans who will never have the chance to be healed because they're too poor ? It's quite rare, but for this I'm very proud to be French : everybody deserves and can be healed, even for free if you're too poor, it's a Human Right.

Well, we'll see soon if our American friends will show their solidarity with their own people...

 

[Julio Quintana]

Yes, you can see it this way. Or you can see it another way : he's lucky to know the right persons. What about all the other Americans who will never have the chance to be healed because they're too poor ? It's quite rare, but for this I'm very proud to be French : everybody deserves and can be healed, even for free if you're too poor, it's a Human Right.

Well, we'll see soon if our American friends will show their solidarity with their own people...

It must be nice to live in a country without problems...

 

[Fran Kuhn]

Awesome article about it, http://outside.away.com/magazine/0498/9804lance.html


Armstrong had no health insurance. When he was diagnosed with cancer, Oakley made him an employee and threatened to switch insurers if he wasn't covered.

That's loyalty for you. Amazing.

I had not heard that story, but reminded me of an event Oakley sponsored at the Company's headquarters last year to help raise funding for the Reeve-Irvine Research Center's research to help paralysis victims. I went to the Company's in-house theater to meet a friend, motocross legend David Bailey, who's been in a chair since 1986. I couldn't help but think how grateful the people in the theatre that night were. I wish there was more of that kind of thing going on in the world. A class act from a great Company.

-Fran

 

[Petr Dvorak]

cool

 

[Stefan Christou]

Way to go Jim. You rock!

 

[Vigna Raajan]

Wow Jim...!!!
We're really really proud of you