youareajoke wrote:
Randy Oldman wrote:But it was still a positive drug test, right?
No, he had a TUE at the time, so of course it is going to be in his urine. I am amazed people care about his getting caught with corticos a year after coming back from cancer, I would be amazed if he didn't. Call those positives and you still have hundreds to thousands of clean tests while he was dirty as hell.
Please tell me you're joking? Because you are obviously just plain wrong. This information is out there and easily available. As somebody said earlier, even Armstrong never claimed anything about corticosteroids being related to cancer. The backdated prescription claimed it was for saddle sores. This is a well-established fact, not a theory. That was the claim by his people at the time, and has always been the claim. And even if they had been for cancer treatment, it's obvious that he would have know to declare them beforehand as a TUE (as required). That's not the kind of blatantly obvious thing one would overlook, especially after the biggest PED bust in cycling history at the previous year's TDF.
Also, technically, he tested positive 4 times for corticosteroids in that Tour, not just once. This was only revealed this past year.
And he didn't take "hundred to thousands of tests". Well, I guess technically he did. He took hundreds. Roughly 300, give or take. This has been well-researched. Even the claims from his own people were that he had taken 500 to 600 tests. Even those crooks never claimed "thousands". From the NY Times:
Armstrong’s account of how often he has been tested has varied. His lawyers, according to the report, have indicated that he provided samples 500 to 600 times over 14 years.
Usada said it tested Armstrong only 60 times, and it cited reports indicating that the International Cycling Union had tested him about 200 times, although Usada said many of the cycling union’s tests were for a health program rather than for prohibited substances.
“The number of actual controls on Mr. Armstrong over the years appears to have been considerably fewer than the number claimed by Armstrong and his lawyers,” Usada said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/12/sports/cycling/how-lance-armstrong-beat-cyclings-drug-tests.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0