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It appears that the worlds largest sports brand has finally accepted the inevitable... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/cycling/9614878/Lance-Armstrong-dropped-by-sponsors-Nike-following-insurmountable-evidence-in-USADA-report-that-he-doped.html

He makes a similar point to @Pantini earlier with regard to how far down do you have to go to find the next clean rider in the list? Within the top 5, the top 10? What a crushing shame for that clean rider in 5th, 8th, 10th, whatever that really they were genuinely the best to compete with a...

Perhaps not, but I also wouldn't be commenting publicly on it either, certainly not so soon at any rate. It's another headline to be honest the sport could do without.

Alex and other cyclists are surely better off keeping their misplaced solidarity to themselves!? Steve Cummings comment that LA has done a lot for charity is almost laughable at this point. No one should want an LA witch hunt as the sole offender, but neither do you want to pretend it is of...

Great point, it's easy to forget the victims in all this, those riders that did ride clean for all those years but they never stood a chance. They may have been the best of their generation, but only ever posted marginal positions.

Since 1984, only one man has won the TdF with 4 stage wins or more, and while that wasn't unusual back in the era of Eddy Mercx, in the modern era a GC rider winning 7 TdF titles as well as 20 stage wins in 7 years...it does beggar belief, I wouldn't have said 20 stage wins for a GC rider in 7...

The benefit of a transfusion of half a litre of blood can provide the athlete with an additional half litre of oxygen to muscles per minute, at the same time increasing the capacity of the muscles to use oxygen by up to five percent...

Exactly, it needs to be a thorough examination through the entire sport, I completely agree. Extract from the NY Times: “It was not enough that his teammates give maximum effort on the bike, he [Armstrong] also required that they adhere to the doping program outlined for them or be replaced,”...

Perhaps his foundation is truly the only way he had to somehow deal with his guilt. Out of his cheating no doubt he could tell himself a huge amount of good could be achieved, some how balancing the deeds so to speak.

The whole sport needs to have a sort of amnesty and face up to what was endemic and not just a few bad apples. Too many are still hiding behind glass houses. Armstrong is just the lead case, but for the tide to truly turn, it needs to be completely honest about it's past. Too much complicity...

STILL a lot of work to do to change the perception and image though...

I thought this was a good article too... http://sportforbusiness.com/?p=3808