Comments on: Lance Armstrong is world-class – at capturing regulators

By: Azza9

Azza9 — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 04:11:18 +0000

Who would have thought the humble cycle would be a front for a sophisticated organized crime syndicate. lol.

I’m starting to wonder if he even had cancer… That it was some sort of PR ploy to deter would be inquirers from pressing too hard. Also he could have used it as an excuse for hormonal based doping (A card he didn’t use but it would have been up his sleeve).

But no. Ill dismiss that conspiracy fiction, I don’t look very dashing in a tinfoil knob hat anyway…

By: dkgm

dkgm — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 19:59:45 +0000

EXCELLENT and WELCOME commentary!
Your insights aptly shed light on another dimension of endurance sports that needs to be fixed before they can “truly” be cleaned up and honestly be called “sports” again.

By: js2012

js2012 — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 19:04:46 +0000

Lance is done. Let it go. They were all in the game together. Cycling is a difficult sport, in terms of human stamina.

By: ofilha

ofilha — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 18:39:59 +0000

this whole sports industry should disappear. It’s all about money and corruption. It’s sickening how these individuals and their sycophants do.

By: LaJollan

LaJollan — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:59:04 +0000

“Tygart alleges Armstrong offered USADA $250,000 in 2004 to drop the charges against him. ”

This is inaccurate. It’s not what Tygart said. Armstrong was not facing any charges in 2004. Tygart did say that an offer of a donation to the USADA was made by an Armstrong representative, and this was confirmed by a now retired USADA official, but there was no overt discussion about it being for anything, much less to drop charges that were not there.

I think the rest of the article is good, but misstatements like this put the veracity of the whole piece in question.