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