Neo187H
September 1, 2012, 8:56am
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Just because he didn’t’ fail his drug tests doesn’t mean he never used PED’s. There’s evidence that he manipulated the drug testers into doing the tests when he wanted. He knew that the result of this was him being stripped of his titles, and banning him from cycling for life. Why would he not go through with this and clear his name? “All the bullshit?” C’mon. I think this really falls into a case of “Where there’s smoke, there’s fire” He should’ve stood up and gone to bat.
Look at Baseball (Which is where my views on steroids and PED’s comes from now). They do random drug testing now, albeit not very comprehensive, and not blood testing. They’ve caught 5 MLB players this year. The 2 most recent ones, you could just watch by their play, that it looked like they were getting a boost. One had been released by another team, then came back like a maniac the next season. I very much liked him, but the Yankees traded away awhile back. Then there was a pitcher, who had not been picked up by any teams when he was 37. He had stem cell therapy, (which you can’t even get in the US because of the Jesus freaks) came back at 38 and pitched awesome for the first half of the season for the yankees, and then fizzled out. They didn’t ask him to come back this season. Now he comes back and throws 38 strikeouts in a row in April. These types of amazing feats I don’t think are so amazing.
The difference here though is that Lance was brought before a Federal investigation and you know what the result of that was? They dropped the case because they couldn’t prove anything.
So it’s quite a stretch to say he’s guilty when even the federal government has come to the conclusion that they don’t have enough evidence to go after him.