martyn20
Unwell but still smiling
He will end up being stripped of everything, he says he is innocent but will not fight it anymore?
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Lance Armstrong ends fight against doping charges
- Thread starter martyn20
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He will end up being stripped of everything, he says he is innocent but will not fight it anymore?
hitony
Administrator
I don't know any details, but maybe its just not worth it for financial reasons? I don't doubt he will write a book or something of that nature!
Woodchip
It's all about the bikes
They have been trying to find him guilty of anything for years.
If they are going to go back through history out the records of anyone that doped there would be no Tour winner in the 70s or 80s. If he was juiced do be it, he was competing against others that were juiced. Just let it lie FFS!
/rant
If they are going to go back through history out the records of anyone that doped there would be no Tour winner in the 70s or 80s. If he was juiced do be it, he was competing against others that were juiced. Just let it lie FFS!
/rant
Pat McCrotch
Lurker
What I don't get is, do they actually have samples from him that have tested positive? Surely he must have given hundreds of samples throughout his career. How come they are only going after him now? From what I have read the USADA were going to get his ex teammates to testify against him (no room for corruption there is there!?). But without the samples these testimonies aren't worth salt.
Seems like this Travis Tygart fella has it in for Armstrong on a personal level.
Seems like this Travis Tygart fella has it in for Armstrong on a personal level.
Woodchip
It's all about the bikes
Summed up so well.
Pat McCrotch
Lurker
Travis Tygart Interview: Armstrong’s results from August 1st 1998 will be stripped
Tygart saying there is evidence other than testimony that will emerge....
Tygart saying there is evidence other than testimony that will emerge....
Woodchip
It's all about the bikes
Woodchip
It's all about the bikes
Or it is making him ill, and being a cancer survivor doesn't want to risk things anymore and wants enjoy the rest of guys life with his family.
Guilty out not he is still one of the best athletes to have ever lived.
Woodchip
It's all about the bikes
But he keeps his health. I know what I'd rather have.
Falkor
Banned
- Jun 3, 2011
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Thats up for debate, and now i cant say it as he wont fight his corner any more.
If he i s a drugs cheat he is not one of the best, he is a drug cheat simple as.
But we will never know the truth in this case, clearly there is some evidence against him
He's brash, aggressive and was probably not popular either in the peleton or with his team mates, so not to hard to find people who have a beef with him willing to say he cheated although there was never enough physical evidence to convict him, maybe he also ruffled some feathers in the political world or upset someone with shitloads of money and influence who has made this their goal - he'll just be wasting more money against people with a bottomless purse trying to defend the 'charges'.
He was a great cyclist and did a hell of a lot for people who have suffered from cancer and other illnesses by proving a bike and willpower can be a route back to full health (for me, from personal experience).
Whatever titles they strip him of, he has left a legacy more important than winning a cycle race and for that many will regard him in high esteem.
He was a great cyclist and did a hell of a lot for people who have suffered from cancer and other illnesses by proving a bike and willpower can be a route back to full health (for me, from personal experience).
Whatever titles they strip him of, he has left a legacy more important than winning a cycle race and for that many will regard him in high esteem.
I disagree. He cheated his way to his success and, in my eyes, never won anything. Although I agree about any other winners in the 70s and 80s (and 90s). I think all of them should be downgraded to 'the doping TdF'.
I never credited him with any of that anyway. But it is a sign of guilt. No matter how tiring it was, if you had his record and you were innocent, you'd fight the charges no matter what.
Yep, up there with Ben Johnson.
He has spent virtually all his life fighting other opponents on a bike, anti-doping people and cancer. I can easily see why he might now decide he wants a break.
Exactly. If his record had been clean, it would have been one of the best records in the history of sport, and you'd rather die and keep it than just give in and give it up. But given that most of the rest of the field were doping, I don't see how anyone could ever think he wasn't.