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Originally Posted by oldschoolcalgary
oh, so civil discussion is out the window is it?!
Your arguments are patently ridiculous, the notion that there is a conspiracy against Lance is laughable at best and truly pathetic at worst.
Any other cyclist would have been pursued just as vigorously if they happened to be successful at the same time as Lance.
People like you are the ones that legitimize athletes taking drugs and cheating, explaining it away and poo pooing those that actually, you know don't have a sliding scale about right and wrong.
Sorry, your "hero" was a cheat and a fraud - glad that he's getting called out.
now go cry, wearing your Liestrong wrist band, at your altar of Lance Armstrong, a proven cheater on the scale of Marion Jones and the Balco/Festina fiascos....
you lose
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I wasn't trying to be uncivil, just slightly ironic.
Armstrong was never my hero, in fact I despise him, he was the first cyclist to train exclusively for the tour and ignore the classics, had Mercx approached the tour the same way he would have had 9 or 10 wins.
I also don't think it is a conspiricy, I think any slight investigation into any pro cyclist will find drug use, Armstrong is just a big scalp, no more no less, the reality is Lance is being persued because he is famous and american, which gives the USADA the ability to go after him, they have no authority to persue any non american.
For the record I think the fair approach would be to either invalidate all previous tour winners and admit the level of accepted drug use within the sport or leave it all alone, I have a problem with screwing one guy over when he was engaged in no more than normal behaviour in his chosen sport.
You mention Festina, the team leader and ackowledged ring leader got a 9 month suspension from the sport for his part in the worst drug scandel the sport had dealt with, unless you count the poor ####### below who died of an amphetamine induced heart attack in 1967, 9 months is a season, no more, he was free to return to the sport after that. Cycling as a sport loves to dope, I suspect will continue to dope, it has been at the core and fabric of the sport for a hundred years.
