“Everybody” doesn’t use it; several riders like Tour champions Cadel Evans and Greg LeMond never took it. What this did for Armstrong was to take a mediocre hill climber who would have been a domestique in every Tour and make his a phony champion and a billionaire. Sorry, he doesn’t cut it.
You may want to believe that, but cannot prove it.
Sorry, everyone was doing it - including legal drugs. I certainly don’t feel sorry for him getting caught, but its not the same as betting, where you frequently have an incentive to actually perform poorly.
How many stages did he win compared to all the other career cyclists who won way more and were fortunately exempt from the USADA investigation?