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Landis drops EPO bomb on modern Pro Cycling. Lance is in the bullseye
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Lance isn't doping now...but I'm sure he was. The problem is there is no hard proof. its all going to be hearsay and people's word vs. his word. unless they have him on video tape doing it or pictures of him doing it. Even documentation is sketchy. If you dont catch someone in the act its pretty hard to prove they are guilty.
I push the documentary in every thread like this. if you have reservations about people doping. watch Bigger Stronger Faster by Chris Bell.
Name your favorite athlete of all time. chances are, if he was any good, he doped and everyone who was his competition doped also. (meaning any type of drug to enhance his performance)
I push the documentary in every thread like this. if you have reservations about people doping. watch Bigger Stronger Faster by Chris Bell.
Name your favorite athlete of all time. chances are, if he was any good, he doped and everyone who was his competition doped also. (meaning any type of drug to enhance his performance)
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Thing is, the fed investigation is not going to be about proving if lance doped or not. It is going to be whether or not Team Postal sold bikes to fund their alleged drug habit. In short, was a crime of fraud (or whatnot) committed against the the United States Government. They (Team Postal) have already admitted selling bikes, so now the feds will simply follow the money trail. With lots of depositions to fill in the gaps and add drama.
Sure they will ask "did you dope?" but the real line of questioning will be "how did you fund your dope habit"?
Sure they will ask "did you dope?" but the real line of questioning will be "how did you fund your dope habit"?
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Thing is, the fed investigation is not going to be about proving if lance doped or not. It is going to be whether or not Team Postal sold bikes to fund their alleged drug habit. In short, was a crime of fraud (or whatnot) committed against the the United States Government. They (Team Postal) have already admitted selling bikes, so now the feds will simply follow the money trail. With lots of depositions to fill in the gaps and add drama.
Sure they will ask "did you dope?" but the real line of questioning will be "how did you fund your dope habit"?
Sure they will ask "did you dope?" but the real line of questioning will be "how did you fund your dope habit"?
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Interesting that some are now saying that the investigation is targeting Michael Ball and not Armstrong.
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The idea is to go after easy targets. Balls team was full of guys who are reputed dopers. If you look at Radio Shack, aside from the Landis allegation and the chinese guy they kicked off the team, you have a lot of "good guys" and domestiques who have never really been mentioned as part of doping outside of being associated with Lance. So if you go after Rock Racing, start there, you can probably get these shady folks to turn on the people they know were doing wrong and work your way up the chain for bigger fish. The hard part is proof. Hearsay will only get the Feds so far.
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What started out as an investigation by the Feds over fraud is now also a full investigation by USADA for doping. Just released from ESPN. Once any country's national anti-doping agency is involved in allegations of a professional rider's doping, then WADA becomes involved. See WADA bylaws. Lance Armstrong isn't the only one going down. Pat McQuaid, you better get that paper shredder out.
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Does anyone know from which cyclist the latest allegations are coming?
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Does anyone know from which cyclist the latest allegations are coming?
Um, you mean which cyclist(s)? They are former teammates and they articles out suggest that they will reveal themselves in due time, in front of a grand jury.
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Testimony in front of a Grand Jury in not supposed to be made public.
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Um, thanks for the recap, and the extra "s", but I was looking for some indication of names and not just a synopsis or wordsmithing. But thanks anyway!
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It wouldn't surprise me if Lance was clean, but encouraged the rest of the team to dope. Once Lance became famous, doping for him personally would be a huge liability, but say if his domestiques (Floyd, et al) got caught it would not really damage him too much. Its plausible denial-ability for Lance.
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It wouldn't surprise me if Lance was clean, but encouraged the rest of the team to dope. Once Lance became famous, doping for him personally would be a huge liability, but say if his domestiques (Floyd, et al) got caught it would not really damage him too much. Its plausible denial-ability for Lance.
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It wouldn't surprise me if Lance was clean, but encouraged the rest of the team to dope. Once Lance became famous, doping for him personally would be a huge liability, but say if his domestiques (Floyd, et al) got caught it would not really damage him too much. Its plausible denial-ability for Lance.
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We've got multiple threads running on the same topic. I'm going to close this one. Let's pack up the comments and move on to a newer thread.
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