Lance Armstrong

[mraynrand]

I think he hopes to get some of that respect back but I doubt he will succeed though.

maybe he just wants to run a marathon

[Kiwon]

Which sport's authority is worst at catching dopers - Baseball, football or cycling?

Here's a cyclist who used for 12 years and wasn't caught.

The sports obviously don't want to catch these guys. The NFL tests urine, but not blood. It will be a cold day in July before the NFL Player's Union will allow that.
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Danish cyclist Michael Rasmussen admits to doping

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/cycling/2013/01/31/danish-cyclist-rasmussen-admits-to-doping/1879845/

[wootah]

NFL is just trying to pretend they look for doping. I think the answer is clear for this one...

[mraynrand]

So I ask again, if everyone is doping, why the outrage when someone gets caught?


Is everyone on the Tour de France now not doping, or are the officials just looking the other way? Or has the doping test evasion just improved?

[wootah]

Evasion has improved. Cyclist and their medical staff want to make more money and take risks by experimenting with the newest meds which aren't tested yet. The risk long term health issues for a couple of bucks. Tetsting as flawed as well, since most of its done by national agencies and not all of them (like the Spanish) have proven to be neutral in their analysis.

I think the the outrage stems from the fact that cycling is seen as a sport for everyone over here: it doesn't matter if your daddy was a senator or a farmer, as long as you could ride hard, you could become a hero. Doping changed that and allowed the wealthier but less talented riders to take over. Your money and connections suddenly defined your capacities.

There's a great story of Edwin van Hooydonk who won the Tour de Flanders, one of the toughest one day races, at the age of 24. 2 years later he couldn't follow the pace of the peloton anymore even though his tests showed him to be stronger than before. He knew what was happening, but instead of joining the frauds, he retired.

[wootah]

BTW, today the world cup of cyclocross is taking place in Louisville, KY. Cyclocross is pretty much riding your bike in a meadow for an hour, but it's big in Belgium. Unfortunately it's pretty much only in Belgium that it's big, so we have a long list of world champions

The US organisation decided yesterday to move the race from Sunday to Saturday due to flooding danger and today all the newspapers are going crazy over his. Enjoy the race if it should come on the telly there!