jackmott wrote:
pick6 wrote:
dsmallwood wrote:
(i say "bright side" cause i loath the WADA/USADA. a haters gotta hate.)
why hate on the only people actually doing anything in sport about doping?
I will buy a beer for anyone who can admit that the real reason they have a problem with the USADA and this investigation is because they love Lance.
a Michelob Ultra perhaps?
BLeP wrote:
Assuming that this report turns out to be true,
what have we learned? Well we have learned what we already knew... Everyone in that era was doping.
Zzzzz..... wake me up when this is over and they have awarded those 7 tours to nobody because everyone was guilty.
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who is this "we?" to paraphrase another poster: slowtwitch seems to have gone through the five stages of grief pretty well, but this ain't true with the outside world.
personally, i don't like Javert behaviors from the prosecuting authority, but Lance brought this onto himself by being so Javert-like himself when trashing others.
many of us can admit to liking doped up riders such as Merckx, Coppi, Kelly, Bartoli, or hell, even Vino. Some sheepishly admitted to doping (and some sang about it), and some really didn't seem to feel sorry for their actions, but none of them tried to ruin the lives of others the way Lance has. Lance is like the televangelist who got caught cheating on his taxes and on his spouse but won't admit to his wrongs b/c it'll send his business empire tumbling down. So he drags it out, slings mud, and try to be sanctimonious, but chances are that we'll be finding a ton of those yellow plastic wristbands in the garbage real soon.
That said, i'll admit that i started following cycling b/c his exploits. I would rather have said that i started following cycling when Lemond won his TdF, but alas...
edit: i started caring what went on in the TdF in 2001, and knew neither who his opponents were nor what the Festina Affair was. Still didn't really follow it until 2009, which is when i stopped running and started road racing. Somewhere around then i kinda figured out that when the next five guys all have been accused of doping, something just ain't right. So yeah, i guess that's 8 years, though for most of the 8 i knew nothing about the Grand Tours and the Monuments, but i'm proud to say i never bought those stupid plastic gimmick wristbands.