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Lance Armstrong; Sooo Busted

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1,000-page Usada dossier lays out case against Armstrong
Depicted as bully who coerced team-mates into using drugs

"His goal [of winning the Tour de France] led him to depend on EPO, testosterone and blood transfusions but also, more ruthlessly, to expect and to require that his team-mates would likewise use drugs to support his goals if not their own," concluded the report. "It was not enough that his team-mates give maximum effort on the bike, he also required that they adhere to the doping programme outlined for them or be replaced."


http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/oct/11/armstrong-usada-sophisticated-doping-scheme
 
I don't care all that much about the performance enhancing drugs and whatnot. I mean, I care, and it sucks that people who would rather not do that stuff are forced to either do it or be uncompetetive. But I don't believe Armstrong invented roids; he faced the same shitty choice as everyone. He just happened to become the best at it. He deserves credit in a perverse way.

Coming clean would just be met by a lot of shrugging from me.

But the bit about trying to discredit witnesses seems really scummy to me.



Armstrong fought back, as he always does, with his lawyers attacking the report as "a one-sided hatchet job, a taxpayer-funded tabloid piece rehashing old, disproved, unreliable allegations based largely on axe-grinders, serial perjurers, coerced testimony, sweetheart deals and threat-induced stories".



Scummy. Know when you are busted.
 
mrquincy
1,000-page Usada dossier lays out case against Armstrong
Depicted as bully who coerced team-mates into using drugs

"His goal [of winning the Tour de France] led him to depend on EPO, testosterone and blood transfusions but also, more ruthlessly, to expect and to require that his team-mates would likewise use drugs to support his goals if not their own," concluded the report. "It was not enough that his team-mates give maximum effort on the bike, he also required that they adhere to the doping programme outlined for them or be replaced."


http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/oct/11/armstrong-usada-sophisticated-doping-scheme
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i find it hard to believe...take the drugs or get replaced...whoreshit :yes: .. would take 1 unhappy guy to fuck him and the entire team and this would have come out a long long time ago...im not saying lance didnt use, i have no idea if he did or not, but this is a bad story from guys who got busted...not very believable imo
 
RayRay
i find it hard to believe...take the drugs or get replaced...whoreshit :yes: .. would take 1 unhappy guy to fuck him and the entire team and this would have come out a long long time ago...im not saying lance didnt use, i have no idea if he did or not, but this is a bad story from guys who got busted...not very believable imo
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There have been rumors about this for years and was swept under the rug because Armstrong was too big to fail.
 
FairWarning
There have been rumors about this for years and was swept under the rug because Armstrong was too big to fail.
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oh no doubt, but wouldnt you think that the first guy on the team to get busted would have been relentless to the media about someone "making" him take drugs in order to stay on the team...i know i wouldnt let it die if it were true and would write book after book about it... just seems like something they are coming up with, long after the fact of getting busted...maybe they were paid not to say anything...that could have been the case...
 
FreeFall
That's a rather bold statement. I'll just assume you've done both and know the industries inside and out. :boo:
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Never have done a drug in my life. The Tour de France has been rocked by doping scandals for years.

About Armstrong Ray, I would think the first teammate was viewed as a loose cannon. Lance Armstrong was a brand, just like Penn St football. As long as people were making money off them (sponsorships) and they performed well, the haters were shunned. Once they start fading from the limelight, then the press starts looking at it harder, also more people who thought were wronged speak against.
 
Blitty
Another Canadian started thread aimed at bashing American Heroes.

Typical.
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The sad thing is Blitty that I was a huge Lance Armstrong fan back when he was winning. I was the guy who said "There is no way Lance is doping. He's just that good." I would not believe for a minute that he was all juiced up. Now the truth is beginning to emerge though. I just wonder why they would bother chasing him, seeing as he won his last major race over 6 years ago. I guess it is because he was technically working for the US gvt when he was on US Postal Team.... I will have to read some more on it.
 
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