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Well he's worth a fortune, and every penny was through cheating, so it should all be taken away. But he's hidden his money, transferred assets etc, so whatever they take, he'll still be a multimillionaire.

It also serves as a massive deterrent. Ok, you might be a step ahead of us, but we will catch up one day, and we will publish the results, and you will be dragged through the mud. Although saying that, it's difficult (impossible) to have any symathy for multimillionaire Armstrong. He was just...

I believe they (actually one man, rather than the organisation) did retest the '84 samples, and the results were so bad he thought it would serve no purpose to release them. I suspect a vast number of winners were doping.

You take that back!

Well I guess we'll never really know. We only know about Lance because it was a team sport with an individual winner, so Lance needed his team mates to dope too, meaning a lot of people knew the truth. We can of course keep asking Carl Lewis if he doped, but there's quite a lot of incentive for...

But this is a massive story in sport in general. How many other top athletes doped to win?

There I am, swimming along, and I see this lovely, juicy bug. I was just about to gulp the lot down when my mate Bold Seagull pointed out the hook. Thanks Bold Seagull, I owe you one.

Would I dope to win a sport in exchange for a few million - yes, I would (particularly one where I knew that if I didn't, the winner would be another doper anyway). I'd actually want to make notes & tapes etc of the whole thing - including my own personal tapes to camera explaining that I would...

Ok. The coffee comment was because it seemed Chucky still wants to believe he's innocent, even now - not referring to how he felt years ago. I'd like to believe too. I'd actually like to believe in god as well, I think it's a really nice idea. Unfortunately, I can't control what I believe, my...

Eh? I've always known he was doping, this is nothing to do with being wise after the fact.

Ah. I suffer/benefit from being skeptical about life, so I never thought for a minute he was clean. Just like Carl 'I need to wear a brace' Lewis. Note re not being told he failed at the time: In the run up to the '84 Olympics in LA, the US wanted to get a handle on what was happening in the...

But he did. When they checked his samples for EPO, all failed, but because the samples were old they weren't allowed to ban him. He also failed once, and after being told he failed he paid a doctor to write him a note, which the governing body accepted. I don't really blame Lance for any of...

I'm not sure you grew up at all. (that's not meant anything like as harsh as it sounds :) ) Come on man, wake up and smell the coffee. Now here's a man that's wise to the world. Good call. I imagine the whole thing is going to be completely disgusting, vomit inducing, insincere, American...

'Getting caught', as in present tense, you may be right. As we've all discussed, cycling is now taking a lead on testing people. But the fundamental reason that more cyclist have tested positive in the past is because more of them have been involved in doping. I accept that it's a problem in...

For any particular reason, other than it's interesting?

Understood. Yes that is what people will think, and I say it is fair. Cycling became a joke. It's bad name has been extremely well earned. Hopefully Cycling will now punish any new cheats extremely heavily, and the sport will become known for the changes it's making, and eventually it'll be seen...

Ok, but firstly: So? Any cyclist caught cheating right now is going to hit the news, so what. I'm hardly going to feel sorry for the cheat. And I'm not going to feel sorry for cycling either, too many cyclists and the UCI let this happen for many years. It's right that people look down on...

Sure, but come on, this Armstrong thing is mega massive. What's the problem? Is it that you don't want people to look down on cycling? The fact is, people cheat all over the world, in all walks of life. People cheat at work, people cheat the tax man, people cheat in exams, people cheat in sport...

This is how I feel about it. Sure there are probably people that dope, but it won't make a Messi out of a Harley. No doubt. That depends on the sport. In cycling the recovery in between stages is crucial. In football it's handy, but a Messi that hasn't fully recovered is still miles better than...

I'm probably just as cynical. I don't think cyclists as people are any different than the other sportsmen you mention, it's just that some sports are more suited to doping than others (as previously discussed).