Lance on Tv

[cusepack]

Another question to ponder . . . apparently, these alleged results arrived in 2004 . . . why wait until AFTER the 2005 Tour to reveal "their" findings? I find it somwhat unforgiving, as the French continue on their odyssey of destroying LA. Their ridiculously obsessed. But, they've surely begun marketing for next year's Tour, because their main attraction, their piece of the pie, will be on the sidelines. They aim to lose a great deal of revenue now that Lance has retired.

[BIKEAWAY]

And the shame of that is Lance really wants the popularity to stay. He truely loves the sport and all that the tour brought him.........
Bitter Bitter Bitter is all I can think of
Could it be that the french know that no countryman of theirs will beat the record so they want to tarnish it???

[drplasma64]

One of the things is that the lab results were based on code number, and the lab had no way of knowing whose was whose. It was L'Equipe who discovered that one of the code numbers supposedly belonged to Lance, so that is the part that happened recently.

[bikerchick68]

the thing that blows my mind about this is that even the LAB themselves say they have NO PROOF of who's sample that is... if they cannot say that the numbers matching means something then who is LeBlanc or L'Equipe to say it's a given that it's LA sample? Un-freakin-believable. This man has been tested more than any rider ever... and every allegation has proven unfounded... it blows my mind that they're still looking for dirt on him... where's the head shaking in disgust emoticon???

[Pedal Wench]

And, the test itself is tainted. It's a known fact that EPO is not stable in a urine sample after about 3-4 months. These samples were at least 5 years old. Also, the 'custody' of the samples cannot be traced - in other words, there is no way of proving that they were not tampered with, and certainly there is no way of cross-checking because the 'A' samples are no longer available. Witchhunt.

[Sleek]

There also is a repeat tonight of the Charlie Rose interview with Lance from just after this years TdF.

[BIKEAWAY]

Watching that interview yesterday, it just breaks your heart for someone who played by the rules, and knows it in his heart also knows that the question now will always be over him and there is no real way to clear this up.
That really sucks and I hope Karma rears his ugly head on the jerks that did this....