BREAKING: Lance Armstrong throws Ferrari under the bus under oath

Nutella1 wrote:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/cycling/2014/04/09/lance-armstrong-named-names-written-answers-doping/7532825/

Says Michele Ferrari sold him the drugs.

Question for Renato Canova: do you still believe that Ferrari is a "good man"?

You say he was under oath. I am familiar with the case and certainly familiar with Armstrong and Ferrari. That is not throwing him under the bus. When you are under oath, you need to answer the question and answer with the truth.

Everybody has known for a long time that Ferrari managed the drugs, and that Bruyneel was aware of them. Bruyneel was a high-profile rider in the 90s as well.

I am surprised that Ferrari SOLD him the drugs, as I would want to insulate myself from that. Everything else would be hard to prove, but if you actually supply the drugs, much easier to get caught (which he didn't) and much easier to prove.

I am surprised that Ferrari appeared in "The Armstrong Lie" ... he knew what it was about and he gained NOTHING by appearing in it.

For those of you who would like Ferrari to face charges, realize that if they gave Ferrari the death penalty, there would be 14 more Spanish and Italian doctors to take his place in 15 minutes. There already are.

Also, don't believe that there aren't 60 Lance Armstrong's in distance running right now.

Ten years ago the guy that placed 2nd to Tergat (in his Berlin WR) was the rabbit in his first marathon and he ran 2:04:57 (and was the second sub-2:05 marathoner). Do you think he did that with "the new marathon training" people keep harping on about? It has only gotten worse since then.

I have no knowledge of any of this subject, but I'd like to make one peripheral point: I worked as a Federal agent in an unrelated area for nearly 22 years, and I found over that period of time, after taking hundreds of sworn affidavits, that plenty of witnesses have little regard for the truth, whether they are under oath or not. After my considerable experience, all I'd like to add to this discussion is that I would not make so much out of a sworn affidavit, regardless of the contents of that affidavit. I can't tell you the number of times I had two witnesses give flatly contradictory statements under oath about the simplest facts.

THE REAL chicken wrote:

I think Lance is a hero, and I will always respect him for his work with Livestrong. Everybody was cheating. We all are flawed are we not? Glass house

If everyone was cheating, why did Hamilton and White both apologize to all the clean riders? What about Bassons? I'm sure Ben Johnson and Marion Jones were also convinced that everyone was cheating. Where do you draw the line?

Although I'm sure Livestrong has helped many people with cancer, but for Lance it was nothing more than a shield and very personally lucrative foundation. Try looking beyond the surface.

Ferrari is a training genius. Many of the doping coaches are.

Tor wrote:

Although I'm sure Livestrong has helped many people with cancer

Why are you sure? Livestrong is a foundation to "raise awareness for cancer". I'm sorry, but cancer doesn't need "awareness". Everyone knows someone who has or had cancer and everyone knows it's terrible.

If you want to donate money, your dollars are much better spend to a foundation that invests in actual research.