Comment Re:Drug test the final standard? (Score 0) 482
I hope Gregg Lamond does the right thing and turns his in too in support, same with Mercx and Indurain.
Congrats, you spelt "Indurain" correctly. Greg Lemond. Eddy Merckx. Jesus.
Cycling has never been lower since Tom Simpson died on the side of the road from an overdose.
He died of dehydration.
The evidence consists of not one hard fact or test.
It's not a criminal trial. There's plenty of credible witnesses at this stage, and the retro-testing from the 99 Tour is a hard fact (although in-admissible)
This whole thing goes back to a kerfuffle of three International sports groups and a urine test for EPO in 1999 that came positive, then could not be duplicated in later tests.
The 1999 test was thrown out at the time because of an independent panel set up by the UCI (Cycling Federation) at the demands of the WADA (World Anti-Doping) and the IOC (Olympics) finding a lack of scientific rigor on the part of the French Lab.
The WADA, the International parent of the US-ADA, threw that panels findings out because it did not like the results.
The IOC censured the WADA, and WADA is still butt-hurt. They could not touch him, so they sent the USADA after him.
Cool story bro
It is all eye witnesses. Eye witnesses that are getting a break on their own charges, or people who wrote books and made money on the deal.
He was tested randomly year round. He was tested after every stage win, or top 10 placement. He was tested every day he wore the Yellow in the TDF. He wears freaking makeup on his arms to cover the tracks he has from being stuck so many times.
Not one positive.
Not one.
Cool. Ullrich's clean too, and Riis, Millar, Zabel. Those guys must be lying when they said they were doping. Btw, Lance did fail a test for cortisone in '99.
Armstrong’s secret is that he trained harder and more effectively than anyone else. He and his trainer Chris Carmichael re-wrote the book on training and nutrition.
The trainer he dropped once he started winning Tours? Did he write the foreword for the new edition of the training and nutrition book?
This in a time that his primary rival, Jan Ulrich still drank heavy cream to put on fat in the off season and then trained to get rid of it, thinking it turned into muscle!
"Ullrich". Jesus. Citation needed.
They refined the “dancing on the pedals” style of 6 time champion Indurian and perfected it, allowing him to beat the more powerful Ulirch and the superlight weight Marco Pantini in the hills.
Are you talking about Micheál Indurian, six time Ballygobackwards Egg And Spoon Champion, who famously used to dance on his effects pedals when he was performing Rattlin' Bog? The only cyclist I can think of is "Indurain" but he only won the Tour five times, and he probably stood on the pedals a similar number of times