Doping is just as much a part of sports as other “improvement” methods.
There is not a single older, elite athlete, who has not used performance enhancing drugs to compete against younger athletes, except maybe in golf. I don’t know much about golf. Heck, steroid an equalizer, steroids ensure an equal starting point regardless of age. How the heck do you think someone could come back from cancer treatment and return to elite competition against much younger men?
The point is that no one really cares.
Personally unfamiliar with this whole situation and don’t much care, but I’d be interested to know if this is a legitimate beef or a case of jealous persecution of a decent and honest athlete.
Opinions, anyone?
So “worst kind” now means “professional bike racer”? I’ve never doubted he was doping because that’s the career he chose. But I don’t see him as that different from the rest of the industry.
Doesn’t sound like they’ve ever had anything resembling hard evidence.
This story never goes away! Does anyone really care? They probably all dope so it’ s even anyway.
For some reason, your article fails the mention the dates that Armstrong had a test where he was found to have performance enhancing drugs in his urine or blood.
Until then, he is innocent, unless you favor a world where ten known drug users can come forward and simply claim they saw you using drugs and that would be all it would take to find you guilty.
I have no opinion on Armstrong one way or the other.
I just wonder how he was able to pass bunches of doping tests over the years.
I smell something rotten in Denmark. It seems to me that there is no physical evidence that he doped...no failed tests. Testimony? I can lie under oath just as well as the police can. Emails? I can manufacture hundreds of them a day...from or to anyone on the planet. It’s not rocket science.
Let’s worry less about Armstrong and worry more about the fraud we have in the oval office.
I'm no 'Armstrong-zombie'. Other than the State of Texas, I have nothing in common with the man.
You post, however is both presumptive and arrogant.
They spent TEN YEARS and untold thousands (millions) of taxpayer dollars to drag a man to court on a case that they themselves had already closed.
So the question becomes why do YOU think it's a good idea to piss off so much money on a subject most people don't care jack about?
Go ahead....defend the indefensible.
Give me a break. Sports have become a huge industry and where money and fame are involved, ways will be found to enhance performance.
Cheaters suck.
defend what?
Oh wait, you mean wanting to see both sides of a story is indefensible?
It’s European pro bike racing. Of course it’s dirty. It always has been and (unless they shut it down completely) it always will be.
There was probably less dope in Lance during his entire career than the dope in the white hut.
So Lance is a cheat among cheaters. He was still the best of them. You ever wonder why no active cyclist ever complains about the other guy cheating?
So for me, it doesn't make him less than the best, to me, the only thing he has done is to lie to the public about it. Yes, that is bad, and the entire sport is a farce in that case. Has been for a long time.
So what?
He won in an almost universally corrupt sport. They’re just upset because they got out cheated.
Lance Armstrong has created more jobs than Barack Obama.
How many people have made a career of the “Armstrong Witch Hunt”?
Rush has talked about this Big Media game they play. Build a guy up and then tear him down.