USDA v. Lance Armstrong
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- kingkong0
I suspect there are far more important matters going on in the world. If only people got this worked up by other stuff, that said...
From my rather pov...
He doped in a sport that was more or less rife with it. If every single team had its key rider jacked up, and if its a team sport I kind of get the join the team or fuck off attitude.
Strikes me there has been a period in modern sport from about the mid 70's up until the last couple of years in which several sports used performance enhancing drugs where it could clearly aid the athlete, creating an arms race in a lot of sports.
The fact that they cant award any of his Tour De France titles speaks volumes to me.
Quite rightly as the poster boy of his sport and in many ways as the poster boy of picking yourself off the floor and grabbing life by the ball so to speak he has had the furthest to fall, but in many ways I see his argument that punishments for drug cheats aren't applied universally.
The fact that Justin Gatlin has a bronze medal to his name from London 2012 backs that up.
The idea that ONLY lance Armstrong was the ONLY athlete in the world to have a sophisticated doping scheme soulds far fetched to me.
For as long as the benefits outweigh the costs then it will always happen, and I can't imagine a professional sport where it doesn't happen.
- It's the shocking lack of remorse that's getting so much heat. He just doesn't seem to care, that's what stands outpig