Posted on 11/20/2012 12:11:09 PM PST by Notary Sojac
As long as they could conduct a test, and make a determination...thus showing proof...I was agreeable to the whole “game”. This current episode with Armstrong revolves around just listening to twenty-odd guys say he doped....but you can’t use a single test to validate what they said.
To me....there’s something wrong here. Why bother with dope-testing anymore? Let’s just let your team-mates identify you as a doper, and that would be enough to toss you out of your sport.
I will say this in my own beliefs...I could see Armstrong winning two races in a row. But statistically, for a guy to keep his body in that form for more than two years? I’m not buying that either.
2 words: French jealousy!
College students today have a saying—if you’re not cheatin’, you’re not tryn’. It seems Lance may be the originator of that little gem.
It works for Democrats, doesn’t it?
If cheating is widespread in a sport, and it is/was in cycling, then by definition the dominant players are cheating.
Nobody is good enough “naturally” to compete with and win against someone almost as naturally good who has his finger on the scale with drugs.
The biggest problem is that Lance was so scorched earth in his own defense. He crushed a lot of people on his path of insisting he was 100% clean, then it turns out he was the liar the whole time.
On the overall thing, I’ve always felt the doping rules in various sports are kind of silly. There’s so much drive to do them, and the dopers are always so far ahead of the enforcers causing most of the folks to get caught so far later. I guess because most of it is illegal they really can’t have them not against the rules. But by the same token when you look up how many cycling and track “wins” were expunged years later because stored samples finally failed it does make these entire sports seem rather silly. Get to the bottom of this page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doping_at_the_Tour_de_France
really look at that list of wins that now never happened and explain to me why anybody should pay attention to the results. Who really thinks the 2011 and 2012 “winners” will still be counted as winning 10 years from now? Not me.
Is eating four eggs every morning for breakfast while training and racing okay? Or should competitive athletes be limited to, say, two eggs at breakfast?
How ‘bout 100 eggs per day?
Kill 300 Mexicans and two cops? FINE..! But take a little GH for a stronger swing, and you’ll be blinking under the kleig lights on Capitol Hill FO SHO.
Kill some SEALS and burn a Consulate? Steal and election..? FINE..! But take a little GH to pedal like mad, and they’ll just burn you down.
THINGS ARE NUTS THESE DAYS AND FOLKS CAN’T SEE IT.
I won’t chalenge your POV if you gas up my GOV! Anyway, This guy should be a comedy writer. I always thought “personal assistants” assisted others because they had no personality of their own. I stand corrected...this guy is pretty awesome and finally gives a realistic aspect to all of this!
You’re right. It’s always good to take a step outside of the establishment’s box. If all the media is blabbing the same crap, we might want to step back and apply some independent critical thinking.
I won’t challenge your POV if you gas up my GOV! Anyway, This guy should be a comedy writer. I always thought “personal assistants” assisted others because they had no personality of their own. I stand corrected...this guy is pretty awesome and finally gives a realistic aspect to all of this!
It all boils down to ‘he said-she said’ and no evidence one way or another, on either continent........
“It all boils down to ‘he said-she said’ and no evidence one way or another, on either continent........”
Same as the first OJ trial, right?
Was there ever any real scientific test done by an objective third party to prove his guilt?..........
The prosecution had scientific test data. The jury was as ignorant, stupid and biased as an Obama voter......
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