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- These guys disgust me.
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- Perhaps we should have two different groups of competitors for every sport. One for those that want to dope and compete and one for those that doesn't. One team would need to be checked for drugs, and the other could do whatever it is they wanted to compete.
I personally would prefer to watch the non dopers. - Reply to this comment
- The USADA is a new organization that did not exist when Lance Armstrong won all those races and tested negative every time he took a test.
When did they get the authority to take anything away to begin with?
The competitions Lance won are in FRANCE, not the US.
Strongarming people into submission is not the way any sporting organization should behave.
I suppose they want to judge Penn State over Sandusky too like the NCAA did, where to this day I haven't found the rules that state what they did is legitimate.
The only people that should have the authority to impose fines and remove past victories as such, is the school system itself, otherwise it's not a school system, but a long term professional football camp.
As for the USADA, they should not exist. - Reply to this comment
- USADA wasn't searching for the truth. They were searching for a trophy. This was a case that happened before they even existed and everyone else who looked at it concluded that they should just leave it alone because cycling didn't adequately police itself way back then. Everyone else decided to look to the future. Maybe Lance got away with it (and I think that he did) and maybe he didn't.
Not USADA. Lance Armstrong has been a fixation for them and given their one-sided procedures, he probably did the right thing to just ignore them. He's not competing anymore.
USADA really looks silly trying to take away titles that it has no jurisdiction over that were won long before USADA even existed.
Does anyone really think that USADA is really cleaning up cycling?
I say that they have contributed nothing to that end. All they have done is chase Lance Armstrong's tail over stuff that Lance got away with with over a decade ago. - Reply to this comment
- How about we not make athletes into heroes in the first place? Why don't we go back to looking up to people who have really made a difference in the world like Martin Luther King, Jr or the firefighters who risked their lives in 9/11 or anyone else who has really contributed something for the benefit of society? Don't get me wrong, I enjoy sports, but I'm not going to worship someone just because they can push themselves physically, for their own benefit mind you, with or without the use of drugs. So our image of Lance Armstrong the cyclist is tainted? Who cares? I care far more about his efforts in cancer research and awareness then I could ever care about his Tour De France triumphs.
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- This will never go away because there are always new drugs and/or new ways to use drugs that aren't easily detected. Do I believe the stories about the US Postal team and Armstrong? Sadly, yes I do. I also believe them when they say it was pervasive and to use them was the only way to be competitive. I don't like it and I wish it weren't true that we can't trust that any of our "heroes" are pure athletes anymore, but it seems the only way to level the playing field for everyone is to stop banning the substances. Athletes are going to use them anyway and it gives everyone the same choice.
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- THE USADA DID NOT EXIST WHEN LANCE ARMSTRONG RACED.
THEY SHOULD HAVE NO SAY SO WHATSOEVER ABOUT IT.
THEY JUST CAME OUT OF NOWHERE?
THEY CAME FOR LANCE. - Reply to this comment
- I would have expected at least one of these late whistle blowers to apologize for not speaking up earlier in defense of those who stood up previously and withstood severe humiliation, hardship and intimidation for doing so. They owe these guys something.
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- Another story of brain dead sports fans protecting their idols.
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- Now that Lance has been stripped of his Tour titles, who should they be given to? Jan Ulrich, the winner in 1997, for example, came in 2nd five times but was banned in 2006 due to doping. Point is that during the time Armstrong won his 7 Tours, his competitors were doing the same things he was found guilty of. It would have been impossible to win the Tour (and other events) without using PED's...and if Armstrong had not won, another user would have been on the podium.
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