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I don't think the removal of his results was an either/or situation in relation to admitting the problem. They had to do it and they did.

I've skim-read the last few posts so maybe I've COMPLETELY missed the boat, but has there ever been a serious case of 'doping' in football? I assume in Rugby people have been banned for steroid use to improve strength but I can't remember any footy ones that wern't recreational drugs. Maybe i'm...

On a sub note, I actually spent my lunch break (sad, I know) reading the report and many of the supporting documents with it. I felt proper DIRTY reading people's emails. I LOVED IT. My favourite was Lance slagging off a fellow riders wife and then warning that "taking me down" would cause...

My favourite part was, after being asked about a rider who got caught, Hamilton replied "He should never have got himself caught that close to a raceday". Not "He should never have done the drugs". It's amazing just how it was the absolute NORM to be doing it.

For anyone interested in finding out about how the teams/riders went about getting the drugs/ how open it was between them all, I would certainly recommend listing to Five Live's podcast called 'Peddlers: Cycling's Dirty Truth ' The first 3/4 has interviews with Tyler Hamilton, as well as...

So, could Armstrong POSSIBLY have been good enough without the drugs? Would he still go 100% when on them to win or would he have to 'act' A LITTLE and tone down his performance to not raise suspicions?

From those who know more about this than me, can you tell me what difference (i.e how much) the doping actually does to an athletes performance? I've always wondered this. It's obviously impossible to KNOW, but would LA have been good enough to possibly win without them, or do they really push...