So let’s hear from the deniers on this forum. Crickets?
I’d rather react to news, than to fortune telling.
We have gotten way too used to taking psychic predictions as if they are things that already happened.
Earlier this week, too many people here were cheering Boehner’s “resignation”, because someone predicted it on Drudge.
Now we are discussing the meaning of an Armstrong admission that hasn’t happened yet.
I doubt deniers would be affected by this type of news. And those of us who really could care less one way or another are still waiting for something definitive.
Maitre Jacques had it right, after all. He refused tests. He bullied the testers. When asked about drugs he said “one can’t ride the Tour on mineral water.” And he was right. I still don’t understand how I, as an aging racer, can take all sorts of pain and recovery drugs if I so much as scratch my ankle on a crank, but the men who ride the most grueling race in the world can be crucified over eating tainted beef - or for that matter socializing with Dr Ferrari (who by the way stands by Lance.) You asked about the “deniers on this forum,” Cat, and I say that I am one. I deny the prissy authorities and their stolen god Tom Simpson the right to control the Tour. I deny the notion that Lance is “guiltiest of all,” or “guilty at all” for that matter, until I see irrefutable proof of a POSITIVE A AND B TEST. And I deny the likes of the New York Times to presume that this non-news is even a story. I think it’s time, once again, for the riders and teams to take back the Tour.