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........
Lance should never had himself photographed with Geroge Bush on a bike ride. Big mistake!
Did anyone seriously believe that Lance Armstrong could recover from cancer and get back into competition shape without some performance enhancing drugs? I don’t think that anyone would be dumb enough to believe that was possible. Frankly, with or without the performance enhancing drugs, I give Armstrong an awful lot of credit for his accomplishments of beating cancer and returning to competition.
Rules against performance enhancers are idiotic. No one wants to see some seedy looking grain-eater pushing their yogurt fueled ass up a mountain in lackadaisical time spans.
No. We want to see the inhuman. We want that experience pushed to the edge and beyond and to have someone come back and tell us what it was like...
Striving to be more than human is older than Herakles.
Set up a parallel line of sports for those willing to push their bodies to destruction for glory and fame. Mere-humes can compete against other Mere-humes. Morethans can compete against Morethans... It'd be interesting to see which one garners more viewership and ad revenue.
...and not a word about the cyclists who racked up more individual stage wins in almost all of Armstrong's TDF wins...
In fact, despite all of Armstrong's TDF appearances and wins, he's not even in the top 25 of individual stage winners.
This was a government financed witch hunt and the government finally won......
Who's he next target?
My nomination for the shortest list in the world:
1. Tour de France cyclists who never doped.
I think that the events of this last election, i.e., the extreme fraud by the democrats, has lowered the bar for any type of cheating. If Obama gets the big prize as the result of cheating, why not Lance? At least he has some redeeming social value via his work with cancer. Obama has never done anything for anyone except his own little blue-lipped self.
(Not condoning Lance; just making a point as devil’s advocate.)
Who cares how fast some guy can ride a bicycle? You want them to quit cheating? Quit watching. You don’t see a lot of cheating where there’s no money involved. I can watch the neighbor kid ride his bike. If you like watching cheaters, well, then, that’s different than watching bicycle racing. Then you reward the cheaters. Ohhh........