Lance Armstrong faces doping charges
 

Lance Armstrong could be stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and is banned from competing as a triathlete as a result of new doping charges brought against him by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency.

A 15-page USADA charging letter first obtained by the Washington Post made new allegations against Armstrong, contending the agency collected 2009 and 2010 blood samples from Armstrong identified as "fully consistent with blood manipulation including EPO use and/or blood transfusions."

Armstrong has not previously tested positive for such transgressions.

Source: U.S. Anti-Doping Agency brings charges against Lance Armstrong - latimes.com

EPO offers a huge advantage to athletes by improving exercise capacity, oxygen uptake, respiration, and energy efficiency. If he did indeed take it then he sure deserves to be stripped of his titles. Hope it's not true though, seems like a good guy.

doubt it will happen.

they've been accusing him of doping for years

Another article:
Lance Armstrong responds to agency's doping allegations - CNN.com

If he was cheating, they would have proved it by now.
Allegations don't mean nothing...c'mon now.
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isn't the guy retired? people need to stop drinking this...

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from what i understand from talking to a few people in the higher level cycling world, its fairly well known he was on PEDs the whole time along with the majority of riders and its only a matter of time before it all comes out. retired or not.

What else is new?

80% of the pro peloton was doping during the years Lance raced (note: not a factual statistic). They called those years the "Robocop" years for a reason. Lance probably was. I don't disparage him for it, though, since I'm pretty sure Ullrich (2nd place in 3 of Lance's TdF wins) and Pantani were doping as well so the playing field was more or less even.


I think outing Lance now would do cycling more harm than good. Give up already.

EDIT: Ullrich has publicly admitted to doping. Here's a reddit comment that shows that most of the 2nd and 3rd place riders in Lance's Tour wins were also doping or suspected of doping:

So everyone else in the top 10 were doping, but lance wasn't? Give me a break.....lance is a farce.......he's going down.......getting what he deserves....

No. I'm not denying that he was doping. In fact I said the opposite.

However, since the rest of the field is also doping, IMO it doesn't matter.

i say let him keep his titles!

the man did it with 1 nut! :fullofwin:

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So why is only now that they're conducting these tests? Don't doping tests need to be completed after a race? Isn't it too late to test now? And why are they saying all seven? Can they tell when he started doping?

did the timeline of his doping coincide with his cancer treatments ?

because I'm sure though illegal people would understand and be more sympathetic if he doped just to get back to normal because obviously cancer treatments weaken you, and the dude is a professional athlete, he needed to get back to his normal shape.

the only reason Lance hasn't been ousted yet because the money he has raised for cancer research and treatment. If he goes down, so does his ability to raise money for Cancer.

The fact he declares he never has taken performance enhancing is a joke. I would respect him more if the came clean and focused on ridding the sport PEDs. His righteous attitude is a joke when deep down he knows he is lying.....

Maybe the drugs he was using were undetectable at the time and now the drug testers have new methods?

Either way, 7 time champion by beating guys who have been doping. Obviously he was on something. :)

Who gives a shit? Jesus, it's mind blowing their is a government agency for this bullshit.

For fuck sakes they bring Baseball players all the way to the level of Congress over doping in the god damn stupid stick and ball game.

Meanwhile white collar criminals in the financial sector are left un-touched by Congress.

Fucked up priorities we have in this world, we're a strange ass species.

Congress are the white collar criminals,they would never investigate or prosecute themselves.

Using athletes on doping accusations is just a diversion to keep the heat away from what they are doing,it seems to work pretty well.

he's been given hundreds of drug tests and passed em all



anyway here's Lances statement regarding this

So...why are they having such a hard time proving it?
All these allegations, all these drug tests don't mean anything until they can prove something.

I came in here to say exactly the same thing. How much time and money have they spent on this? :fulloffuck:

Fixed.

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USADA to strip Lance Armstrong of 7 Tour titles - Yahoo! Sports Canada

interesting

interesting~ makes you wonder how many other athletes are using currently undetectable substances!

wait, like he said he passed his tests and was clean and the doping agencies have no proof to the contrary, so how the fuck does it work out that they can just strip him off his titles JUST because he quit the lawsuit against these assholes.....

damn that's some shit right there, lulz quote of the day

"USADA reacted quickly and treated Armstrong's decision as an admission of guilt"