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?
The bicycling magazines have come out over the years and said something was fishy so what does that tell you?? As others have posted all the other bicylist have done it as well... or if not they were the ones at the end of the pack.
That being said Lance was/is a phenomanal athlete and is w/o a doubt the very best cyclist in our time.
I recently read (confirmed PED cheater) Tyler Hamilton’s book, The Secret Race. It is an exhaustive description of his own and Armstrong’s (a teammate) elaborate cheating strategies. There was in fact a cheating arms race, and Armstrong was the market leader, always innovating.
That’s why the argument that “they all did it, so it was a level playing field” is incorrect. Armstrong did it earlier and better, and when someone like Hamilton threatened to overtake him, he turned his former friend in to the authorities.
Armstrong comes across not as a decent and honest athlete, but as a narcissistic sociopath, whose definition of “normal” was that it was when he won.