You're assuming that he didn't cheat, then?Originally Posted by dawg80
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You're assuming that he didn't cheat, then?
I think after he won 3 in a row they had him under a microscope and he still passed every drug test. What else have they got? Nothing.
Even if he did cheat, this has gotten way out of hand. The main point of this exercise is that Lance won despite going against the established order and he made them all look like incompetent beurocrats by doing it. I hope he wins because I sick and tired of these idiots destroying the only thing that makes Cycling relevant.
I'm seeing $10,000,000+ that can be better spent by the government.
Bingo!! No wonder we haspent 1 trillion dollars on BS.
I'm done with professional cycling. I don't even care if Lance was clean. In stripping his titles is the assumption that the guy in second was clean. LeMond and those like him that have used every available means to take down the most popular player in history have done a great disservice to the sport. Many people just don't care any more. They are roasting the golden goose (or is it yellow) that made them relevant to popular sports in the first place. LeMond made millions from the popular resurgence of cycling in America that Lance was responsible for.
Yep!
Well, I guess everyone has seen this by now. I'm still not sure what to think.
How can the USADA have the authority to strip a Tour de France title?
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/cycli...ges/57258616/1
Who do they give the title to? In the seven years Lance won the tour de France, the second and third place winners all (except 2) had positive drug tests in their careers... something Lance did not have.
But hey... Good for cycling. They finally brought down the only man that made their sport relevant to the masses.
And Lance raised $500,000,000 for cancer research and inspired hundreds of thousands of people with cancer.
Don't ask which side I'm on in all of this!
USADA realeasing their "1,000 pages" of evidence today. Going to be interesting reading the breakdowns.
Last edited by JuBru; 10-10-2012 at 01:50 PM.
Sometimes... when you are searching for the needle in the haystack, you just take the whole haystack assume the needle is in there.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/lance-armst...7#.UHYrtLQTt1M"USADA has found proof beyond a reasonable doubt that Lance Armstrong engaged in serial cheating through the use, administration and trafficking of performance enhancing drugs and methods and that Armstrong participated in running the U.S. Postal Service Team as a doping conspiracy," the report concludes.
Cycling is right up there with Olympic Track & Field when it comes to doping, but that sentence is a little over the top. Lance took over 500 tests and passed every one of them, so saying that they have "proof beyond a reasonable doubt" isn't exactly true. They haven't actually found anything, they just had people testify against Lance.
On the other hand, I heard a report a few weeks ago that said the drugs that cyclists use can cause testicular cancer. If that is true then Lance's cancer seems a little more suspicious.
Either way, I don't see his former teammates as heroes for testifying like this. If it's true that they saw him do it, then they were more than happy to take the money that they made off of it, and they turn him in now that his career is over and they can no longer ride his coat tails for cash.
Supposedly did all the drugs after the cancer. That is when he was good - not before.
Maybe he should stop paying taxes and run for office as a democrat. Everything would magically be better and forgotten.
Have read nothing but hearsay that wouldn't normally be allowed in a court of law, imo, and yet everyone thinks purgery charges are coming down the pipeline.
Ask the Saints about hearsay.
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