malice aforethought wrote:
Avocados Number wrote:I think he has a pretty good idea, especially if he had conversations with them about their doping.
No he actually has NONE. Having "a conversation" with them does not give him any insight into their pysche. And did you think that even if they WERE guilty they would actually say that to Greg Lemond? Please.
Whether Landis or Armstrong are dirty or clean as the driven snow, Greg Lemond does not have a clue. He is there out of bitterness. If they are clean, he is there out envy, as well
I agree 100% with "malice afterthought." Avocado, you built your whole "case" on believing Lemond over Landis and Lance. That's it. You trust Lemond, and don't trust Lance and Landis, and therefore build this whole "logical" case that makes so much sense to you on why Lemond is doing what he is doing. You are being pretty biased in my viewpoint.
I also agree with the other poster who talked about how if cycling is as dirty as they say, and the drug users in that sport have been around for ever (as it is and as they have been), then there is no good reason to believe that Lemond was clean. He says he won "without drugs". Hmmmm....but did he win "without cheating" ??? There's a difference. Blood doping and transfusions are not drug use, and they have been around forever. Why should we trust Lemond?? And if he wants to rat people out so bad, why only the Americans? Why not others he probably knows more about, such as Indurain, or other teammates? I'm absolutely sure he has some 100% evidence of cheating by some cyclists he rode with in the past, but he is mum about that, and has no interest in spilling the beans on them. Instead, he goes on the attack against Landis and Lance based on vague, supposed implied admissions of drug use on their part.
Even if Lemond was clean(which I doubt), and even if he really believes Lance and Landis are guilty, at the VERY least, Lemond has an major ulterior motive: he is NOT doing this for some noble goal of "cleaning up the sport." NO, he is doing it to raise his own profile, as best US cyclist ever.