B - Biggest fraud in Histroy

 

 

A pertinent revival given the events unfolded recently.

 

Looks like things are going to get a lot worse for Lance! He's now being asked to repay bonus payments, ouch

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cycling/20029617

Nik

 

could see that on the cards tbh. but i dont blame lance for giving up the fight - im quite sure he used PED'S, but you can be dam sure so did his team mates, his competition. and if people think the governing bodies are so niave about a sport they know inside out, and love to the bones and run - to the point they didnt know about any PED use then id say thats ludicrous tbh.
then there are the sponsors - they didnt know?

i wouldnt be surprised with everyone tries to rape him alone, if he starts to take others down with him?
why the witch hunt against him alone when others openly admit to uses? just because they didnt win titles? stinks a bit of hypocracy imo.
punish 1, punish them all imo.
my work collehues follow cycling closely and say some that get caught doping get 6 month bans?? is that true?

 

Yes, some even serve the ban during the off season so they may only miss a month or two of racing. TBH the whole thing stinks.

 

Let's be clear though, Armstrong was not just a simple doper, he ran the whole show, he made sure riders who did not dope were hounded out of cycling

He made sure everyone on his team doped

Cycling did stink, a huge pile of steaming ****, and Armstrong was sitting right at the top of the turd pile

 

Can all that be proved though,I thought he passed all the tests.

What was the point of getting everyone else to use the drugs if he wanted to win anyway?

Les

 

pretty sure its a team style effort, where everyone has to keep up, at top of pack so the sprinter can be in the right place *** the last few kilometers. its a weird kindof sport - i dont understnad it, and hence dont really have any interest in it. i think you need to know all the ins and outs to know whats going on.
as for him being at the top of the sh*t pile, id agree to an extent, but seen as just about the whole sport is/was saturated in use id say to put a single name at the top, as the kindof tsar running the whole corrupt set up would be quite unlikely. its more probable he worked with others at the top to allow the outfit to operate.
i think they just underestimated the limelight it could bring onto the sport and subsequent investigations - hoping things just stayed covered up as they had done in the past.

either way makes interesting reading and interest that otherwise would never have risen

 

Les, lots of dopers passed tests

the authorities did not have tests that caught the drugs they used, at the time they used them

nothing magic really he used EPO they did not have an adequate test for EPO

and he did fail tests, but they were covered up or he was allowed to get away with it

it is all in the report

 

Stop being so pernickety.
There's a good lad.

 

As mentioned above it's a team event. He has 8 other riders riding for him. Protecting him from the wind, bringing drinks, chasing down breakaways...it's all about him.

If he can get his team to ride faster for longer then he will perform better.

In cycling you generally only have one rider in a team who will be going for the overall. Saying that, in some cases a team will be built just to win sprints. HTC Columbia being a good example. Sky proved you can't do both.

 

Is he banned from triathlon.

 

You would do better to wind your neck in until you can think of something sensible to say!

Les

 

Thanks for the information.

Then surely the authorities deserve maximum castigation for covering up and letting him get away with it.

Les

 

yes, correct

the governing body (the UCI) where useless, to the point of complicity

that is why it took the US doping authorities to properly investigate Armstrong and US postal service

and they did it, in part, due too Armstrong being a federal employee -- of the US Postal Service

so the FBI got invloved

Armstrong has spent the past 2 years trying to get the US investigation stopped, saying that the (corrupt) UCI should be investigating him (knowing they are a bunch of crooks)

when that failed he gave up and threw his toys out of the pram -- the evidence was extensive and damning, to the point the UCI could not dispute it

and most people in cycling are calling for the head of the UCI to resign -- but people have no shame these days and he is hanging on

 

Somebody tole me today that Mark Cavendish missed his drugs test and for some reason hasn't signed a morality clause to say that he has never taken PED's..........

Shaun

 

that explains a bit more to me, about the whole thing.

 

And to me too!

Les

 

I think it was Sky that were asking their riders to sign the clause. He is no longer with them.