USDA v. Lance Armstrong
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- moldero0
USDA allows hormones in foods.
Blames Armstrong for cheating by eating their food.
- sine0
here we go...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/21…
- sine0
^ yep. never tested positive once in his career. meanwhile riders who have tested positive and/or admitted to doping are still cycling (even during the last tour de france).
i don't understand why they would do this to one of their countries greatest athletes.
- capn_ron0
It's USADA guys. Stop blaming the USDA on this. They are only to blame for bad meat.
USADA = UNITED STATES ANTI-DOPING AGENCY
USDA = United Stated Department of Agriculture.- USADA should be blaming the USDAmoldero
- the meat probably has more dope in it than lance ever did.capn_ron
- lolcolin_s
- Contador used that line. http://sports.espn.g…neandersthal
- Fucking Contador is stealing my lines. Good thing he is fast.capn_ron
- lambsy0
it's the perfect cop-out by the USADA. After decades of witchhunting, they simply broke him down so they can say he was guilty all along. Whoever is in charge must really hate him or be jealous of him.
-Hatred of the good for being the good-
- lowimpakt0
"Thinking of taking up cycling... Just found out I've won as many Tour De France's as Lance Armstrong."
- pango0
that's right! take that over achiever!
- PonyBoy0
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- CALLES0
Wow
- CALLES0
You go girl
- CALLES0
Let allow steroids in golf
- Presta0
UKV, that knob babbling in the link you gave is clueless about cycling.
He says that after the drug-riddled 1998 Tour, Lance in the 1999 Tour set the fastest time for the Tour de France.
The Tour is not the same route every year. There a huge amount of variables that play into the speed of a race, especially one that lasts for 3 weeks and is 1000's of KMs long... like wind speed, elevation gains and descents. The hours minutes and seconds of a Tour de France mean absolutely nothing. One can beat the previous year's winner's time by 5 hours, yet it says nothing about if that winner was better or worse than the other winner.
99% of commentary related to this story come from people completely ignorant about cycling and it's inner workings.
- ukit20
The United States Anti-Doping Agency said Wednesday that Lance Armstrong was at the center of the most sophisticated and professional doping program in recent sports history and that it would soon release details of its findings.
- ahli0
the old addage: 'no smoke without fire' comes to mind
having read article linked by mg33, too many times it was 50/50, his word against someone else'
- albums0
Far more important things to complain about. I forget what its called but there is a condition that people will always put more effort into bringing another down than building themselves up.
So what he lied and profited? That is capitalism. You're crying over the money he gained from the yellow wristband campaign? Why don't you attack Susan for her pink ribbon that has helped no one to date except the foundation.
This forum is simultaneously adoring a suicide and lambasting exercise.
- fooler0
I can forgive him him for all the doping and lying but I will never forgive him for making me watch the Oprah Winfrey Channel.
- UKV0
Presta, that "knob" is Paul Kimmage. The former professional cyclist and author who wrote a stunning curtain lifter on the sport and its drug infestation. The book is called "A rough road". It's a blunt look at the inside of the sport, and its worth a read.
And believe it or not, despite the varied courses, they do keep track of cumulative average speeds from year to year. Despite your assertion that they mean nothing, they actually mean a LOT to a lot of people who use analytics and trending for kicks of it, as well as for the betting side of the business.
Think twice before you label contrary opinions and commentary ignorant. There is pretty severe disconnect between the pressure to NOT use in the US, and the pressure TO use in Europe. A lot of my buds, and myself included, grew up racing in a very clean system, and holy shitballs does that change when you race in Europe.
- Cumulative average speed also means nothing and is affected by the terrain.Presta
- Kimmage as a pro cyclist knows this, but evades the point. Many pro cyclists have a vendetta against Lance for one reasonPresta
- reason or another. Again average speed is nothing. They could make a Tour route will all mountain stages...Presta
- and their average speed would be 17mph instead of 27mph. But that 17mph average doesn't mean they are riding clean.Presta
- clean.Presta
- ohhhhhsnap0
s o
what.
- instrmntl0
They all take drugs, that the trainers say are legal etc. But the drugs are instead just ahead of the curve. For him to complain is idiotic. You need to stand up for your image of course, but he knew what he was doing.