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Lance Armstrong

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Steve19;1771776; said:
Wasn't there some controversy about how those samples were handled?
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That is the standard argument made by everyone who has ever tested positive.

They have 6-7 samples, hard to argue that all of them were falacious.

I am not sure that the Feds care as much as WADA. If they think they have a pergery case against LA, they will make an example of of him in a big way.
 
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I love watching the TdF, and much of that is due to Armstrong. The culture around this sport just flat stinks though. Armstrong was a cheat. All of his main rivals were cheats. You show me a TdF cyclist who says he's clean, and I'll show you a sanctimonious liar. Then you have the people who were testifying against him or making accusations. They were happy to keep their mouths shut and even cheat themselves while they were riding the gravy train as teammates or after their cycling days, as TV personalities. They were happy to cash paychecks earned off the back of this cheating, and then sing like canaries at the first chance to write a book or have their name dropped in somebody else's.
 
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So his only sponsor dropped him?

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jlb1705;2198960; said:
I love watching the TdF, and much of that is due to Armstrong. The culture around this sport just flat stinks though. Armstrong was a cheat. All of his main rivals were cheats. You show me a TdF cyclist who says he's clean, and I'll show you a sanctimonious liar. Then you have the people who were testifying against him or making accusations. They were happy to keep their mouths shut and even cheat themselves while they were riding the gravy train as teammates or after their cycling days, as TV personalities. They were happy to cash paychecks earned off the back of this cheating, and then sing like canaries at the first chance to write a book or have their name dropped in somebody else's.
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All cheaters.

Part of the enjoyment (for me at least) of watching sports is seeing athletes do things that seem impossible, pushing the human body to its absolute limit of physical achievement. All of this chemical enhancement takes a lot of that enjoyment away.

And let's face it: people loved Lance because he was American and he won. If he hadn't won any titles, almost no one would give a shit about him. So everything he has he owes to his cheating. Fuck him.
 
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Well, that was quick.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/usad...-7-tour-de-france-titles-ban-him-cycling-life

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) ? U.S. Anti-Doping Agency chief executive Travis Tygart says the agency will ban Lance Armstrong from cycling for life and strip him of his seven Tour de France titles for doping.

Armstrong on Thursday night dropped any further challenges to USADA's allegations that he took performance-enhancing drugs to win cycling's premier event from 1999-2005.

Armstrong says USADA doesn't have the authority to vacate his Tour titles. However, Tygart told The Associated Press that USADA can do it.

Tygart called the Armstrong case a "heartbreaking" example of a win-at-all costs approach to sports.
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Im sorry but what evidence do they have exactly? An email from a known cheater and a "promise" to place his other teammates on the stand against him?

If they were going to use his teammates against him, this would have come out already. They better produce some serious evidence that can negate Armstrong's years of successful blood tests.

Effing witch hunt based on the public perception of someone great in a sport Americans aren't known for.
 
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