Aw jeez, pas cette merde encore.
So, why all of the apparently coordinated attacks on a retired bicycle racer? It’s not like he’s still racing. Why does he need to be knocked off his pedestal?
Day late and a dollar short on this revelation. I don’t trust this guys motivations here. I think he is lying.
It’s too bad...I always knew there was a chance that Lance had doped, but hoped that he was the real deal. However, between Landis, Hamilton and (reportedly) Hincapie, it appears the fairytale story will not play out.
That being said, the euroweenies are still pissed.
That seems to be the bottom line.
Hamilton, on the other hand, gets a bit of fame and that always equals cash.
Armstrong might have been the most closely watched cyclist in the history of the sport, and I can't imagine him getting away with any detectable drugs in his system.
After years away from the sport, from 2005 to 2009, he returned in 2009 and was third. Not bad after a lengthy lay-off. All during that time drug allegations were rampant.
Therefore, there is no way he got a pass in 2009 with allegations at a hysterical level even then.
And he placed third.
I'd say he was a damned good cyclist.
Seems to me like a case of put up or shut up. I guess it was fine with them when the team was winning.
LLS
Lance Armstrong has reportedly taken and passed 500 tests to find out if he was doping. He was not found to be doing so. It is beyond the realm of possibilities, that a guy can fake that many tests. INNOCENT...without a shadow of doubt in my mind.
I like Lance. 60 minutes are following an identical path, fed to them, by the Euro whiners who lost. He may just be the most tested athlete in history. It’s all there. No need for samples. Expect a lawsuit or two.
I don’t trust the guy. I only saw the previews but the guy appeared to be very shifty eyed and never looking directly at the interviewer. If you watch closely, you will notice that most of Zero’s people have this same trait. Notice Gates press conference the other day?
News Flash...News Flash: Armstrong was taking performance-enhancing drugs...as (so called) treatment.
Get your bracelet here...hooo get your bracelet here...
OK, explain how someone who had testicular cancer doesn’t actually need testosterone medically? I never understood this point. I would think, like women who’ve had ovarian cancer, that they would need a little supplementation for the quality of life issues.
First, the link has a malware download.
Lance Armstrong likely did use EPO at one point. It was during chemo and radiation treatments, which is why EPO was developed.
As for use during training and competition, I highly doubt it. The reason is his longevity in the sport. Lance has always been an extremely strong athlete, going back to when he was a triathlete while in high school. I saw him at the 1991 Texas State Road Race Championship in San Antonio (Stone Oak area before it got completely built up, and some brutal climbs). Agewise he could have raced in the junior division. Instead he raced in the Category 1/2 (that’s the range from very good amateur to on the verge of signing a pro contract), and shredded the entire field.
Riders who stay consistently strong for a decade or more are likely not on the juice.
Another example of this is Kent Bostick (who can also be a prickly type A++ personality).
Cyclist Tyler Hamilton has turned in his 2004 Olympic gold medal to the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency after admitting in a “60 Minutes” interview that he took performance enhancing drugs along with Lance Armstrong, and a second former teammate of Armstrong’s also has come forward to accuse him of doping.
Hamilton’s lawyer, Chris Manderson, tells the Wall Street Journal that the cyclist returned his medal because he didn’t want the controversy to distract from his confession and allegations that he saw the seven-time Tour de France winner dope.
The USADA confirms it has Hamilton’s medal and “will continue to work with the IOC and the USOC as appropriate concerning the final implications of our overall investigation,” according to the Journal.
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George Hincapie, a longtime member of Lance Armstrong’s inner circle, also told federal authorities he saw the seven-time Tour de France winner use performance-enhancing drugs, according to another segment of the “60 Minutes” report that aired Friday night on the “CBS Evening News.”
Hincapie has often been depicted as one of Armstrong’s most loyal teammates and was with him for all seven Tour victories. In an interview last year, Armstrong said Hincapie was “like a brother to me.”
Hincapie is among a number of former Armstrong teammates and employees who have appeared before a federal grand jury in Los Angeles investigating doping in cycling. Hamilton said he testified for six hours before the panel.
http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2011/05/20/teammate-accuses-lance-armstrong-doping/
Now one of the race directors at the Tour of California, Andreu told Pelley he took banned substances because lesser riders he believed were doping were passing him.
“Training alone wasn’t doing it and I think that’s how ... many of the other riders during that era felt, I mean, you kind of didn’t have a choice,” he is quoted as saying.
Andreu’s wife, Betsy, who has said Armstrong discussed taking performance-enhancing drugs as doctors prepared him for cancer treatment in 1996, said she and her husband are working with investigators.
“We are cooperating, and we’ll just tell the truth. And telling the truth has been costly,” she said. “It’s not popular to tell the truth about Lance.”
http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2011/05/20/teammate-accuses-lance-armstrong-doping/
And Hamilton countered Armstrong’s claim of having never failed a drug test, saying that Armstrong told him in a relaxed, “off the cuff” manner that Armstrong had failed a test at the 2001 Tour of Switzerland.
“People took care of it,” Hamilton said. “I don’t know all the exact details but Lance’s people and people from the other side, people I believe from the governing body of the sport, figured out a way for it to go away. I was told this (by) Lance.”
The “60 Minutes” report offered no hard evidence that UCI officials helped Armstrong evade a doping suspension, but cited a Swiss lab director’s statement to the FBI that said a UCI official wanted the matter of a “suspicious” test to go no further and set up a meeting with Armstrong and team officials.
The report also noted Armstrong donated $25,000 and $100,000 to the UCI, which Armstrong said was for anti-doping work.
SO the story is that Lance Armstrong led an open and active encouragement of doping for an entire team of athletes, most of whom were never top contenders, and who ended up on other teams, and not ONE of those athletes EVER came forward when Lance was later scrutinized, even though it would have helped their current teams and not really hurt them in any serious way?
Before, we were to believe that Lance was doping, but was so good at it, and so secretive, that nobody knew. Now we are to believe that he was so loved or feared that everybody knew and nobody said anything.
Get a positive blood test, and I’ll believe it.
Like I wondered about the timing of the Mortenson piece, I also wonder about the timing of the Armstrong attack. Perhaps the reason for these "exposes" is to try and show how easy it is to take some “shine” off anyone. When Bill Clinton was under siege for his indiscretions, I recall the media trying to help him out by basically lowering the “ethics” bar and trying to say that "everybody" in Washington had “Bill Clinton” type ethical problems.
If CBS is really trying to bring the "bar" all the way down to Obama’s level I think we will be seeing a lot more of these hit pieces. Stay tuned.