Posted on 11/18/2013 4:31:36 PM PST by servo1969
t was the story he had denied. The story Emma O'Reilly went some way to telling when she exposed Lance Armstrong as a drug cheat. But when the conversation moved to the subject of that positive test in 1999, he not only agreed with her that she had been right but went a stage further.
O'Reilly always believed there was a bigger conspiracy and with her sitting before him he finally revealed the full scale of the cover-up, naming Hein Verbruggen as a central figure in his escape from punishment.
Certainly, Armstrong used this opportunity to his full advantage. He wants his life ban reduced and he wants to work with cycling's UCI governing body to achieve this. They will surely see his latest bombshell as a chance to open further discussions with him at their proposed truth and reconciliation committee hearing.
In his Sportsmail interview, Armstrong claims the former head of world cycling knew about his drug abuse and encouraged him to cover up his doping. He says the then president of the UCI, Verbruggen, was complicit in the skulduggery that allowed him to continue in the 1999 Tour de France despite a positive drugs test.
And he goes into greater detail than ever before about the backdated prescription provided by the US Postal medical staff which allowed him to escape punishment.
Today's allegations contradict Verbruggen's insistence that he has never been involved in doping cover-ups. Armstrong has no desire to protect senior UCI officials if he appears before the independent inquiry that has been called for by Englishman Brian Cookson, world cycling's new president.
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Eddy Merckx was no saint.
Just go away, Lance. You have enough to retire.
Bill Burr sums it up perfectly.
If you watch one video today, make it this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9YL04v-J5U
Why would anyone believe ANYTHING that sorry son of a bi-— has to say?
Lance Armstrong, FOAD. You low-life stool.
Maybe he can run for POTUS for the Democrats. He has all the qualifications.
They helped everyone to cheat!
They told everyone what the passing score was, and everyone tried to get as close to it as they could. When they got over the passing score (i.e. their drug levels were too high) they were permitted to buy their way out a certain number of times.
The rules for enforcement and penalties for breaking the rules are part of the rules for any sport. By that measure, Armstrong was as fairly as anyone else in sport.
Just like in football, they have rules for offensive holding, and enforcment of those rules are part of the game. Everyone holds, and everyone gets caught sometimes, and penalized sometimes, and you adjust your play and try to find the balance that wins for your team.
It would explain how he did the impossible, beating drug tests for years. I’ve previously argued that he might not be guilty at all, because you couldn’t beat all those tests.
I never considered that the people in charge might actually WANT Lance to win, and might be helping him. But it would make sense.
Unfortunately, it also means that ANY person so favored could have gotten away with it, since tests are useless if people in charge are tampering with the results.
The racing was still exciting, and no amount of drugs can make a normal person into a champion.
I live 50 miles from Austin and am so tired of this drama turd.
Lance, don’t go away mad... just go away.
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