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Well he got busted. That's just so, so sad. I mean I respected this guy so much, idolized him, like millions of others. He'll still maintain the USADA framed him by blackmailing fellow riders into submission, and the USADA is yet to prove its charges in a court of law, but the range of the accusations makes his case feeble at best. I never thought I'd start such a thread.
There's still much to learn from him -- his tenacity, his determination -- but he's basically a cheat, and has finally been busted. I personally think he must be sent to jail. His foundation has helped, and continues to help, hundreds of thousands of people and Armstrong deserves no end of credit for it, but that doesn't mean he should not be punished for what he did.
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Lance Armstrong helped in 'biggest ever' doping scam
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Lance Armstrong was at the heart of the biggest doping conspiracy in sports history when he won the Tour de France seven years in a row, a US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) report said.
USADA submitted a report Wednesday to the International Cycling Union (UCI) and World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) on why it banned Armstrong for life in August and released more than 1,000 pages of evidence from its probe of doping in cycling.
"Lance Armstrong did not merely use performance-enhancing drugs. He supplied them to his teammates," the report said. "He was not just a part of the doping culture on his team. He enforced and re-enforced it."
Evidence included testimony from 11 of Armstrong's former US Postal cycling teammates, an expert's finding that Armstrong blood changes indicated doping and documents showing a payment to doping-linked doctor Michele Ferrari.
"The evidence of the US Postal Service Pro Cycling Team-run scheme is overwhelming," USADA chief executive Travis T. Tygart said.
"The evidence shows beyond any doubt that the US Postal Service Pro Cycling Team ran the most sophisticated, professionalized and successful doping program that sport has ever seen."
Eyewitness testimony of Armstrong taking EPO and testosterone and having blood transfusions came from such former teammates as Tyler Hamilton and Floyd Landis, admitted dope cheats, and George Hincapie, who confessed Wednesday that he took performance-enhancing drugs.
Other former Armstrong teammates who testified include Frankie Andreu, Michael Barry, Tom Danielson, Levi Leipheimer, Stephen Swart, Christian Vande Velde, Jonathan Vaughters and David Zabriskie.
More: http://nz.sports.yahoo.com/news/art...armstrong-helped-in-biggest-ever-doping-scam/
There's still much to learn from him -- his tenacity, his determination -- but he's basically a cheat, and has finally been busted. I personally think he must be sent to jail. His foundation has helped, and continues to help, hundreds of thousands of people and Armstrong deserves no end of credit for it, but that doesn't mean he should not be punished for what he did.
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Lance Armstrong helped in 'biggest ever' doping scam
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Lance Armstrong was at the heart of the biggest doping conspiracy in sports history when he won the Tour de France seven years in a row, a US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) report said.
USADA submitted a report Wednesday to the International Cycling Union (UCI) and World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) on why it banned Armstrong for life in August and released more than 1,000 pages of evidence from its probe of doping in cycling.
"Lance Armstrong did not merely use performance-enhancing drugs. He supplied them to his teammates," the report said. "He was not just a part of the doping culture on his team. He enforced and re-enforced it."
Evidence included testimony from 11 of Armstrong's former US Postal cycling teammates, an expert's finding that Armstrong blood changes indicated doping and documents showing a payment to doping-linked doctor Michele Ferrari.
"The evidence of the US Postal Service Pro Cycling Team-run scheme is overwhelming," USADA chief executive Travis T. Tygart said.
"The evidence shows beyond any doubt that the US Postal Service Pro Cycling Team ran the most sophisticated, professionalized and successful doping program that sport has ever seen."
Eyewitness testimony of Armstrong taking EPO and testosterone and having blood transfusions came from such former teammates as Tyler Hamilton and Floyd Landis, admitted dope cheats, and George Hincapie, who confessed Wednesday that he took performance-enhancing drugs.
Other former Armstrong teammates who testified include Frankie Andreu, Michael Barry, Tom Danielson, Levi Leipheimer, Stephen Swart, Christian Vande Velde, Jonathan Vaughters and David Zabriskie.
More: http://nz.sports.yahoo.com/news/art...armstrong-helped-in-biggest-ever-doping-scam/
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