lance armstrong: new doping charges

[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.