rojo wrote:
Why is Lance so adamant he didn't make others dope? Is that part tied to his lifetime ban?
In college, a friend of mine tried to get me to take drugs. I said no. I made the decision.
Another time my roommate offered me a pot brownie, I said "yes."
Both times I made the decision, neither made me do anything.
*(hated the pot high.)
No one ever made me put anything into my body.
If anyone ever took anything because someone "made" them, then they actually made the decision themselves because they had weak will.
And think about it, who the hell takes EPO injections or does something dangerous like blood doping if they aren't willing on some level to take the risks???
Anyone who doped, if encouraged by someone else, is RESPONSIBLE.
Try the "but Judge, ROJO made me drink those beers before I got behind the wheel."
As I've said, having been in Paris, during the TdF...lived in France for part of year...I never believed cycling was clean, and no French person I knew did either.
They thought tennis was clean tho. The French are MAD for tennis. Tennis du France!
--The real story is not this witch, the real story is the whole damned sport was/is dirty, and thousands of riders and coaches and doctors, owners and execs need to come down if the sport is ever going to be clean.
Not defending Lance, just saying each person is Responsible for their own decisions. The problem was endemic, and an epidemic of athletes willing to go with the drug path.
That to me is the real story...the thousands that drugged.
I'd rather see Oprah interview the guys that refused and left pro cycling cos they wouldn't drug -- and I'd like to see every government that has had teams in these tours hold hearings and demand "confession or prosecution."
There may have been athletes that were as doped as Lance, but not as good as Lance, those guys are breathing a sigh of relief right now...under the radar forever.
Lynch em all, if you are going to lynch one.