Lance Armstrong at Center of Cycling's Most Sophisticated Doping Program, Officials Charge

More on ESPN.com: http://espn.go.com/olympics/cycling/story/_/id/8486013/11-teammates-testified-case-lance-armstrong-usada-says

thresholdtalent wrote:

More on ESPN.com:

http://espn.go.com/olympics/cycling/story/_/id/8486013/11-teammates-testified-case-lance-armstrong-usada-says

"Armstrong spokesman Mark Fabiani declined immediate comment, referring to a letter the cyclist's attorney sent to USADA on Tuesday.

The letter accused USADA of acting as "prosecutor, judge, jury, appellate court and executioner" in issuing a "biased, one-sided and untested version of events." It also renewed Armstrong's assertion that witnesses, particularly riders, were offered deals of reduced punishments in exchange for their testimony against him."

What a douche! Untested? Lance had an opportunity to test the evidence in arbitration, but took his ball and went home.

Remember when the fanboys all said that it was over once Hincapie confessed...

http://www.bicycling.com/news/pro-cycling/george-hincapie-admits-doping

Tor wrote:

Lance had an opportunity to test the evidence in arbitration, but took his ball and went home.

I think Lance's team decided that they had a better chance "trying the case in the court of public opinion" rather than going to arbitration. We're about to see how that works out for them. It seems to me the best path would have been to confess outright and ask for forgiveness. That seems to have worked out for others but perhaps none with the star power of Armstrong.

Bruyneel is still going to arbitration, so we'll also get to see a legal verdict, at least so far as his involvement in the alleged conspiracy.

In related blockbuster news... the sky is blue, and water is wet.

Vandevelde testified against Lance. When your domestique turns on you, it is game over.

I love that line: took his ball and went home. Love all of this but seems like like they are asking the girl to the prom 20 years after high school. The money is in the banks. Lance won long time ago.

I wonder how many people Lance has hired to come on boards such as LetsRun and try to convince people that there are still members of the public still believing his innocence. Some of the posts above me just reek of hired hands posting on behalf of Camp Armstrong

Precious Roy wrote:

Vandevelde testified against Lance. When your domestique turns on you, it is game over.

Vandevelde, Leipheimer, Hincapie, Zabriskie, Landis, ... all former teammates, all testified against him.

All his former friends are against him. He must be a horrible person.

Nutella1 wrote:

Vandevelde, Leipheimer, Hincapie, Zabriskie, Landis, ... all former teammates, all testified against him.

I forgot Hamilton.

Trivia: is there any former teammate besides the redneck that has not testified against him?

Wow... gig is up, Lance! wrote:

I wonder how many people Lance has hired to come on boards such as LetsRun and try to convince people that there are still members of the public still believing his innocence. Some of the posts above me just reek of hired hands posting on behalf of Camp Armstrong

He has used paid PR firms before but most of the spam-fest of pro-Lance supporters are unpaid interns at the livestrong foundation. So, not that many.

Yes, there are fanboys who post that are not part of an organized effort but the organized ones are painfully easy to pick out due to all following the same script at the same time.

Aquaman wrote:

I love that line: took his ball and went home. Love all of this but seems like like they are asking the girl to the prom 20 years after high school. The money is in the banks. Lance won long time ago.

Don't kid yourself. If all Armstrong cared about was money, he would have stopped bothering to defend himself long ago. He likes the money, sure, but he also wants the love and respect, perhaps more than the money.

The reasoned decision is here

http://www.scribd.com/doc/109619079/Reasoned-Decision

And as we all suspected, the availability of EPO testing in 2000 was merely a bump in the road, starting a practice of blood doping in competition, and EPO doping after the bloodletting during buildup, with no chance of detection.

I'm just glad that unlike in cycling, in our sport there are athletes, who are willing to stand up for the truth:

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/61808000/jpg/_61808558_radcliffe_epo2_640.jpg

Mr. Obvious wrote: TYGART has used paid PR firms before but most of the spam-fest of ANTI-Lance supporters are PAID interns at the USADA. So, VERY many.

THERE ISN'T A SINGLE PERSON POSTING SUPPORT FOR THE USASA WHO IS NOT BEING PAID.

I like how all the pro-LA posters say that all the evidence against him is "circumstantial." They don't know what the word means, but they think circumstantial is bad.

Fingerprints on a murder weapon is circumstantial.

A positive test would be circumstantial. An eyeball witness is direct.

Aquaman wrote:

I love that line: took his ball and went home. Love all of this but seems like like they are asking the girl to the prom 20 years after high school. The money is in the banks. Lance won long time ago.

If you love that line you are sick.

Cancer, anyone's cancer, is no yuck it up matter.

I don't see how anyone can possibly read the 202 page doc and think Lance was part of anything other than a sophisticated doping program throughout his entire career. But then again, there are people who deny evolution.

Dredging Sand wrote:

I don't see how anyone can possibly read the 202 page doc and think Lance was part of anything other than a sophisticated doping program throughout his entire career. But then again, there are people who deny evolution.

People who support Lance won't read the report.