All yours, amych.
Cycling, especially European cycling, is absolutely rife with doping. I think they, even more than baseball, are getting to a point where they're going to have to figure out something more creative than Just Say No as a response. Personally, I think they actually need to ease up on a lot of their restrictions, like with blood doping. Otherwise it's going to destoy the sport.
But as someone with a shot at winning stages, you've got to be a dumbass to keep it up - you
know
you're going to be tested.
I'd be surprised if Lance was entirely clean, but not at all suprised if he was a shitload more careful than a lot of these guys.
I drove past this crash yesterday. Had no idea who it was--they had to cut the roof off his car to get him out.
KO thinks Lance isn't clean at all. I forget what he said, but it was very snarky and skeptical(that is rather his default, however)
"I had one letter from a vicar in England -- this is the difference -- saying would I please not put Christmas trees at Hogwarts as it was clearly a pagan society. Meanwhile, I'm having death threats when I'm on tour in America."
No doubt that American Christians are crazier, but the English request is pretty comical, considering that the Jule tree is a pagan practice that was absorbed by the Christian church. Requesting that there be no Jule trees at Hogwarts is like demanding that the local synagogue stop talking about Abraham because he is a Christian figure.
That is so very rude of your Dyson!
I support eyebrow doing in thought. There's a continent preventing the practical.
It's really rather dark outside and it is discombobulating.
I remember watching the Tour with my dad before I was aware of all the shenanigans. Now I look and...I can't care. The poor sportsmanship on the parts of those who have been caught or are strongly suspect in recent years ....meh. Bad taste in my mouth.
AND WHY ARE THINGS BREAKING AT WORK.
brenda wins for her Kazakhstan joke.
Wow, I wonder what it says about me that I feel sorry for Vino. I mean, he shouldn't have done it but it seems like they all do. I think I always liked him because he was so unpredictable and entertaining.
Yeah, me too. I mean, totally stupid, but it must have broken his heart when he crashed so badly.
I'm with Brenda on Lance (and thanks for the shiny tag, btw!) -- but then I've always the truth was closer to his European rep (great rider, but also an utterly ruthless bastard) more than the American one of the last few years of his career (inspirational golden boy).
The thing with Lance was that he was always really freaky about his public image; he had the corps of bodyguards way before he actually got to be that much more of a star than everyone else on the Tour, demanding complete control to any kind of access to info about him, and he's the ballistic "I will sue you" type about any negative coverage at all. And doing what it takes to make absolutely damn sure that nothing shows up in public, whatever you're doing in private, fits that side of his character*. In much the same way that Floyd being over the top and flamboyant and crazy and getting caught for it fits his.
* Note: not saying that passing drug test = guilty.
