Armstrong: too good to be true?

[Richelieu]

Article is in French

According to L'Equipe, a test done on frozen urine samples given by Armstrong during his 1999 win in the Tour de France have shown that he was using EPO (érythropoïétine), which increases oxygenation in the muscles and can boost overall performance by up to 30%.
Overall, 12 samples returned positive for EPO, six of them belonging to Armstrong (the six other runners have not been identified in the article).

[BeBMan]

Eurocom conspiracy

[Imran Siddiqui]

Haven't the French been trying to prove Armstrong had been doping since the beginning? I think I'll wait for verification .

[Richelieu]

You're Jan Ulrich aren't you?

[Richelieu]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Haven't the French been trying to prove Armstrong had been doping since the beginning? I think I'll wait for verification .

There's a number of articles outhere but they all refer to the one from L'Equipe. I'm still reading but there are a few "questionables". One of them is that - from what i understand - the paper running the story was actually responsible for linking the samples to the runner.

[reds4ever]

Originally posted by Richelieu
- the paper running the story was actually responsible for linking the samples to the runner.

He RAN the Tour de France and still won?

[TheStinger]

They just don't like an evil anglo saxon winning theri event

[Winston]

A little common sense would make it dawn on anybody what's been going on.

Obvious, massive cheating by every single top rider made me lose all interest in the sport of cycling 7-8 years ago. I can be a bit slow...

[Spiffor]

I'm with Winston except for one thing. Even though they're all doped up, they're still good athletes. And Armstrong, no matter how dopped he could be, has done an extraordinary performance.

[DinoDoc]

I agree with Imran.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by TheStinger
They just don't like an evil anglo saxon winning theri event

Not just an Anglo-Saxon, but an American!!!!

[Winston]

Originally posted by Spiffor
Even though they're all doped up, they're still good athletes.

Ah, yes. I didn't say they weren't good athletes, they are. But they're cheats. And so, by the way, are the teams and the sponsors they represent. The cycling associations and the race organizers. Everybody involved with cycling know what is going on.

[DinoDoc]

How many times do we have to win it before we can just claim ownership of it?

[BeBMan]

Usually a guy wins and owns the title -- until another guy wins. Not sure what the "we" means here.

[Sava]

I'm not surprised... Lance Armstrong is an *******... he's a cheating doper...

he's not an athlete

riding a bike is not a sport

it should be legal to run over people who ride bikes on streets

he's a bigger cheater than the east-german women olympic team

and he left his wife (who stood by him during cancer) for rock and roll hosebag sheryl crow

i'm not surprised morons like him