Chris Froome defends himself after doping accusations from Armstrong: "We climb faster because we are better athletes"

Why always bring up the "dope" past. Lance has done his time. Took his punishments.

Lance Armstrong used to imply that Greg LeMond doped too. Nothing has changed. He's still a pathetic loser.

All the pro cyclists going all the way back even before Eddy Merckx denied doping, so did Lance.

News article dated 12/13/2017 states: Chris Froome, the four-time Tour de France winner, confirmed on Wednesday that he tested positive for excessively high amounts of the asthma drug salbutamol during the Vuelta a España in September, on his way to victory in that Grand Tour. The level of the drug found in his urine was twice the amount allowed by anti-doping rules. And of course, Froome and his team were denying and fighting the ruling and eventually won because UCI did not want another embarrassment, and because he wasn't an American.

Instead, WADA and the UCI accepted other evidence Froome submitted that suggested his test result was within the permitted maximum dose. Essentially, Froome was allowed to successfully argue that it was likely he didn’t exceed the legal dose, even though he couldn’t prove it. Froome’s case appears to be a massive departure from the process that every other salbutamol case in the last decade has gone through; and, based on evidence that the authorities won’t disclose, it is also apparently a unicorn: a one-off exception that doesn’t touch the foundations of the salbutamol test regime. Froome case sets up a blueprint for how to challenge any WADA test. Almost all of the substances on the WADA Prohibited List are detected with tests that have some kind of subjective interpretation. EPO, for instance, is detected using gel electrophoresis, which separates synthetic and naturally occurring EPO based on the size and charge of the metabolized protein molecules. To be declared positive, a certain percentage of the resulting isoforms have to appear in a certain range, and that range is down, somewhat, to interpretation. Biopassport testing is similar down to expert interpretation of fluctuations in blood and hormone chemistry—patterns that vary not just because of doping, but benign factors like plane travel, racing and illness.

Since neither WADA or UCI can put a tight lid on doping, they ought to just give up, save an enormous amount of money needed for all the testing, and just let the riders do whatever the hell they want because they will find some sort of loophole to do it anyway. And when they do relax the rules, then they can get rid of the Lance Armstrong embarrassment, along the entire peloton of those 7 years, and give back the wins to Lance Armstrong restoring history to where it should have been.