[Alberta's Child]

My understanding of cycling (limited though it may be) is that nobody cares about the second-place finishers because there probably hasn't been a single premier race in the last 20+ years where anyone finishing in the top 100 places hasn't been using some kind of performance-enhancing drugs or medical treatments.

The one thing that ought to put Lance Armstrong at the bottom of anyone's toilet is not that he denied the allegations of his performance-enhancing drug use for years -- but that he actually had the shameless b@lls to vilify those who accused him.

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The one thing that ought to put Lance Armstrong at the bottom of anyone's toilet is not that he denied the allegations of his performance-enhancing drug use for years -- but that he actually had the shameless b@lls to vilify those who accused him.

Probably Armstrong thought that they were fellow dopers who had the shameless b@lls to accuse him of what they were doing themselves -- and what everybody was doing.

Lance doesn't sound like a very classy act, though. He's gotten in more "feuds" than anyone since the Hatfields and McCoys, and apparently he doesn't treat the racers who subordinated their careers to his very well.