lance armstrong: new doping charges

[OakLeaf]

I don't know why he didn't just stay retired. He had to know this stuff would come up again. What does he have to prove?

[HillSlugger]

I don't know why he didn't just stay retired. He had to know this stuff would come up again. What does he have to prove?

Driven athletes find it VERY hard to walk away and retire.

I just read another article and realize I had it a bit wrong in my earlier post: he's banned from WTC (Ironman) events, but not from USAT events. The article says that WTC rules dictate an athlete is ineligible to compete during an open investigation.

There needs to be a statute of limitation on drug-test allegations.

[jobob]

Here's an interesting take on the matter.

http://inrng.com/2012/06/usada-charges-armstrong/

I really enjoy the Inner Ring blog, I think the articles there are informative & well reasoned. And the comments are often worth reading.

[lovelygamer]

I too, assume he is extremely driven and competitive. I'm going to read these other article links. Thanks! Interesting conversation.

[OakLeaf]

Driven athletes find it VERY hard to walk away and retire....

There needs to be a statute of limitation on drug-test allegations.

The tests in question are two or three years old. The older ones are just "pattern and practice," as they say.

As far as whether it would be easy to walk away, that goes without saying. Same reason Casey Stoner's retirement was so stunning - not that anyone thought it's a bad time in his career to make that choice, only that so few athletes retire from the pinnacle. I guess if someone told Lance that he was taking the easy way out by continuing to compete, maybe that would be the incentive he needs. "Prove to us you can do something REALLY hard." I'm obviously not the only one who's sick of hearing about him.

[SadieKate]

While I'm tired of what is appearing more and more to be a witch hunt, this article is rather interesting about the implications for the UCI.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/usad...-ashenden-says

[7rider]

Performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) in:

Baseball. Is Clemens the LA of baseball?
Someone(s) even put up a list of those suspended. It's long.

Mixed Martial Arts. (shocking! Just shocking!)

NASCAR (they race trucks??)

Football. (really, where is the outrage?)

Track.

I suppose with Google, I could go on. Horse racing, anyone? Skeet? Hockey? Luge? If you look for it - you will find it. So why the drama over a dead team and a retired cyclist? Why the front page news whenever The Big LA is mentioned? (and not even that..."leaked" more like it)?

Except for the Clemens' case - which is more about perjury than taking PEDs - why don't any of these cases make the front page of the Washington Post? Is it because Americans truly hate cyclists and cycling and want to take us/them down? Is it to sell papers to all those "I hate those pansy lycra wearing Lance Wannabe's who get in my way" in their big gas guzzling cars? Is it because we are so cynical that we don't want to believe a cancer survivor did anything positive? We probably all know someone who didn't survive cancer. Makes us want to think - hey, Uncle Charlie (or dad) couldn't beat it....why you??

Personally, I think the fact that this tired stuff makes the news says more about society than it does about drugs, cycling, or justice.

[Savra]

Just a thought - This is right after her pushed VERY hard to add $1 on to the price of cigarettes in Ca. to fund cancer research. He pissed off some very powerful people with that one and almost won. While these things always do happen right before the Tour I do wonder if any of those powerful people he pissed have anything to do with this.

[e3rdpower]

Most of all I'm annoyed with the amount of tax payer $$ that in my mind, USADA is wasting, not just on LA but so many other items.