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- You don't know what you're talking about.
When Lance was 18, and a hammer of a pro triathlete, (I was sometimes on the receiving end), Eddie B, US National Cycling Team coach tested Lance and other during a talent search.
Lance and one other, KC, were head and shoulders above the rest. Big VO2, remarkable lactate clearance.
Obviously Lance had little moral problem with the doping culture of cycling, but if doping made Lance, there'd be a lot more Lances.
- Well he just need to look at himself
- You have never raced. Pathetic nut-rider.
- 1. Many people in this comment section claim he was purely the product of drugs. Scroll up, scroll down, and read. I don't think much of people who are too lazy to do that..
2. Lemond and Indurain (and many, many other riders of that generation) have serious health issues. If you have ever met or chatted with any of these guys or made any observations beyond casually participating in unmoderated comments, you would know that.
3. Fignon said he thought his cancer was due to some of the things he had taken as an athlete. How dare you? You are really, truly, beyond redemption.
I won't dignify your other assertions, as they aren't serious. Best of luck.
- I feel like Jens is forgetting that remco in 2024 was even closer time wise and still came 3rd in le tour. Lipo may take the lead this tour but to think that he's only 2% behind pog is laughable.
- Yes, and we don't even know how far the other stuff went. There were whispers that he went tattling to the UCI when Tyler Hamilton and Iban Mayo started looking like real rivals. Not saying he did or didn't, but we may not know or ever know the whole story.
- Seems odd to be buying waterfront property and a house on an island with climate change and sea level rise occurring...
- I've never dared to say I wouldn't have doped if I'd become a pro rider. If I was a promising neo pro at my first pre-season training camp, and the DS sat me down and gave me the truth about what's required to win a big race, I suspect I'd have been all in. "Hey, I heard the dope works better if you inject it with a giant needle into the scrotum, here you go! Oh, in the eyeball, sure no problem!" They say that two wrongs don't make a right, but sometimes, 200 wrongs make things seem, well, a little less wrong. If that DS had said that everybody's doing it, that would have been all I needed to go all in on the gear and sleep like a baby, conscience clear. If you weren't a pro rider, all you can say is you hope you'd do the right thing and stay clean. Otherwise, you don't know. Was it fair that Armstrong was singled out for punishment? Not totally, but that the deal when you're the big dog. You're going to get all the attention, positive or not.
As much as I don't like the guy, I'll admit that Armstrong's commitment to continuing a rabid obsession with fitness is pretty impressive. I'm confident I've never seen a near 60 yr old at his level of fitness. If it makes him happy or fulfilled, more power to him. There've been riders in the past(cough, Wilfried Peeters, cough) who probably bought a pack of smokes and a dozen Big Macs on the way to their retirement presser, couldn't wait to get off the damn treadmill and grow their waistline. To each his own.
- OK Mouse !
- US gets the Dumb and Dumber combo of Bob Roll and CVV ! UGH !
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