There is a new story circulating today that a former assistant—Paul
Re: Armstrong doping question
Sun, 03 Apr 2005 13:15:41 +0100
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Ironically, of everyone in the peloton he’s the one with the least need of drugs. Lance can build his entire life around the TdF and enough racing to make himself ready for it and a couple of post-Tour Crits to cash in on it. IOW he races maybe 40 days a year. The rest of’em are racing 100 - 130 days a year.

Lance doesn’t need the HGH and EPO to recover, he has the luxury of showing up fresh.—RonSonic

I didn’t intend to single out Lance. The story came up because he sued a former assistant Friday for defamation after the assistant claimed to have found a box labeled androstenin in Armstrong’s bathroom.

It simply struck me a little like accusing a golfer of using EPO or a tennis playing of using heroin. Not impossible, but somehow not what you would expect from someone trying to use drugs to win. Setting aside legality and morality, it seems like an unsophisticated approach to performance enhancement for an athlete who makes his living, in part, from being light. Part of the whole Armstrong cancer story is supposedly that the disease had the side effect of letting a triathlete’s overdeveloped upper body waste away, allowing him to rebuild along road cycling lines.—Paul

Hickey- That’s got to be one of the dumbest things I’ve ever seen on this site. Heck, you and your 595$ ti frame post waay more than me. You must be TWICE the pedophile I am.. what a dumbass.

I’m not singling out armstrong, as the last writer politely noted. I am reminding people that he is whipping the shit out of elite ahtletes that do dope. Unless of course you are all dumb enough to believe that a pidgeon flying by dropped an EPO turd in the eye of camenzind, and that made the test. Or that Tyler ate some really really rare beef and that blew his test. Or that Museeuw was eating wasps cause the stingers keep him regular. Or that Vandenbroucke’s dog desperately needed EPO. Or that Jeanson has a naturally high hematocrit of 56 and hasn’t won anything since her sanction. Or that Richard Virenque really didn’t do it. Or that Raimondus’ mother in law really really needs EPO and HGH to mow the lawn in Uzbekistan or wherever the hell he’s from. Or that Tammy Thomas chopped up bull testicles for dinner and that made her (his?) test. Or that Garzelli’s positive was the result of a contaminated twinkie.

C’mon people. No one (well almost No one) is going to jump up and say, "Yup, I doped. that’s me. done". Denial is current code. Decanio in his own bizzare sick demeneted way are at least trying. As someone that has had a lot of exposure to both doping controls, drug tests, and banned lists, as an athlete, promoter, and lab worker, there are ways to cheat. Tests are not perfect, they are simply the best available science we have now. While I don’t have proof of anything, any reasonably intelligent person has to look at the recent BALCO scandals and at least have doubts. Couple that with allegations, performances, etc, and you should have more. There’s a lot of money at stake here, and money makes people do crazy things.

Maybe someday the truth will come out. True, it will likely be the day after we figure out who reall shot Kennedy, but someday perhaps it will. Till then, I have doubts, and I’m not afraid to say it. As an educated person, I am entitled to my ideas. At least I’m not a lemming believing every crumb of information passed down to him by others.—bikeguy11968