that is a tough one, lets say Pitcairn island id PED free? But really I think some sports don't lend themselves so well to PEDs. Like say golf which requires a lot of technique, a calming drug may help but i doubt it and it is a bigger money making sport than cycling. To me cycling is very prone to PED use, because the benefit is always going to show in results. PED use in say olympic triathlon is less usefull than say ironman distance I would say.
Some countries have histories of very high PED use like the eastern block countries before the wall come down. But there are others also.
I am dissapointed in the extent of the now proven allegations against LA but I don't see him as a reflection of USA sports people. He is a reflection of professional cycling and as the top benefactor of it, the public, sponsors, fans, cyclists etc need to know the truth.

G.

You can make more mistakes in OD race than an IM and not suffer? At the ITU level, mistakes most certainly will cost you. Hell, these are races that are decided by seconds. I'd say in OD races, especially in ITU, mistakes are more maginfied because the consequences can be greater.

first of all, lie detectors are pseudo-science... but I'd be interested in anything in the literature that speaks to a sociopath's abilities to pass one when lying vs. a normal person's. Could be why he wants all the rest to take one too, although I don't understand the logic.

I'm starting to wonder if #7 really really thinks he's innocent.

I also wonder if that Hermann guy knows how stupid he sounds.

Please, please please start calling him -7. The only way he should be associated to the number 7 is if there is a big minus sign in front of it to remind everyone of the epic failure he has become.

How about just Lance? Or maybe that effing doper?

Any olympic swimmers dope ?

Have they in the past ?

mlinenb wrote:

This was publicized when it originally happened in the 90s. Way old news. And cycling and paying for victories is relatively commonplace.

Vino recently was in the press for this fact after his email account was hacked and evidence of a bribe was found.


http://velonews.competitor.com/2011/12/news/magazine-alleges-alexander-vinokourov-bought-2010-liege-bastogne-liege-victory_199358

While USADA might not be able to touch her, to the best of my knowledge France and Italy (and I believe other European countries) have laws against doping and sports fraud.

Here's the interview. The lawyers response is comical. He's a clown working for a circus. It has made big headlines today, but basically says that he doesn't know if LA would take one.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/...t/0/cycling/19941445

Listen to the short interview. Even this guy is running out of things to say.

That is just silly talk. There are 26 actual dopers in the report and you think some prosecutor in Europe is going to go after the ex wife of Lance??? for something that happened years ago

Nope, and don't expect he will. He's moving on, not gonna worry about the past, not gonna talk about "it."