Originally posted by: MaverikV
The french did it. I don't believe them.
They're just jealous. Also, cycling is boring.
Originally posted by: MaverikV
The french did it. I don't believe them.
They're just jealous. Also, cycling is boring.
Originally posted by: Feldenak
Is there an English translation of that French page?
If this is true, then he is very suspicious.After Armstrong survived cancer and raced again in 1998, he found himself unable to compete at a high level, and ultimately stopped racing altogether after abandoning a Paris-Nice race exhausted and looking very much as one would expect a man who has undergone cancer treatment to look. At that point, Armstrong went into seclusion with coach Chris Carmichael and emerged the next year to win the Tour de France. In the space of a few months, he had gone from collapsing by the side of the road to handily winning one of the top three cycling races in the world. The label that the press, fellow riders, and amazed fans put on this feat was unanimous: "It's a Miracle".
Originally posted by: darkswordsman17
This crap is getting sickening.
Whats with all the freaking witch hunts going on anymore? It seems to me the world wants to tear down every accomplishment ever.
Yet, people are content to turn a blind eye to some of the real injustices of the world. Yeah, makes sense to me.
Why can't people live their own damn lives and stop worrying so damn much about everybody else?
Of course if you keep looking and looking and do new tests for new things then you're surely going to find something eventually.
Not saying it was a good thing if Lance did use illegal substances, or the whole baseball debacle, but come on, this is just getting out of hand.
/rant
Originally posted by: OulOat
If this is true, then he is very suspicious.After Armstrong survived cancer and raced again in 1998, he found himself unable to compete at a high level, and ultimately stopped racing altogether after abandoning a Paris-Nice race exhausted and looking very much as one would expect a man who has undergone cancer treatment to look. At that point, Armstrong went into seclusion with coach Chris Carmichael and emerged the next year to win the Tour de France. In the space of a few months, he had gone from collapsing by the side of the road to handily winning one of the top three cycling races in the world. The label that the press, fellow riders, and amazed fans put on this feat was unanimous: "It's a Miracle".
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Originally posted by: C'DaleRider
I find it odd that Armstrong, if this is actually correct, had access to something that would effectively hide the EPO use while the French national champion, Jalabert, was unable to access the same substance and was caught in, I believe, 2003.
Strange that Jalabert, four years after this supposed EPO use by Armstrong, was found positive for EPO use. Stranger still is the fact that while there had been a "substance" out there for years before he was caught and banned for two years from competition that would have effectively masked his use of EPO, he and his multi-million dollar French cycling team was unable to locate any of it. Guess the French are stupidier than anyone can imagine.