Does LANCE ARMSTRONG come into suspicion for doping when his best rivals were dopers?
I think he cheated. I KNOW that Floyd Landis did. Anyone who watched him regain nine and a half minutes should have no doubt as to whether Landis cheated.
I've read "It's Not About The Bike." I've been following this sport since the LeMond days. Since long before everyone started wearing yellow wristbands.
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i've given my opinion on it before. let's just say i dont think the human body can go 100+miles a day at over 25mph on a bike on just good diet and training. today's tour is even harder. when lemond rode for example, the tour had easy days. they would bounce along at common man's speeds, around 20 and let the sprinters fight it out at the end. those were recovery days for the big riders, who mainly waited for the mountains and time trials to expend themselves at all. now days every day turns into a battle, and i dont believe the human body can endure that without help. yeah, i believe most modern tour riders do something to recover and get through.
I love the new guilty until proven innocent mentaility people have. Reminds me of the French Revolution. Next up, the guilatine
well just so you know he has cancer so he is perscribed i think marijuana it might be some other drug though
You may think you know, but until there's definitive proof that isn't disputed by oppositional proof, you know nothing of the sort.
As for Lance Armstrong, he was accused of doping a long time ago and cleared. He was prescribed a certain type of steroids after his cancer treatment and that is the only thing they ever found in his system.
As for OhioJeff's comments regarding "easy days and hard days" I'll have to agree the tour is much harder these days than in the past. I don't agree that it's humanly impossible to do it without help. "Common man's speeds" of 20 miles an hour are no such thing. The average person rides a bicycle at about 8-10 mph and riders are usually sprinting to maintain 20 for more than short distances. 20 is generally considered a racer's pace, not a "common man" pace.
The strategy involved in the race has become far more nuanced than it was in the past and it's quite obvious that the race is now a battle every day because there are no clearly exceptional riders out there, except for the truly rare. That's the way it should be. Some of the "truly rare" are in fact doping, but I'd wager the majority of riders aren't. Not that it's a big deal either way, the tour has been full of some form of doping or another throughout its entire history. Old school riders would basically get drunk so they wouldn't feel the pain. The drugs are more sophisticated now, but it's not really that different than the past.
You don't KNOW anything ! Try reading "It's Not About the Bike". Lance has been tested and retested more than any other rider in history. I'll bet you don't even own a bicycle.
You know Landis cheated! You need to understand more about the test that Landis is said to of failed.
1) The test to prove him innocent or guilty needs to be done on the samples for the next two days. Why? The level (ratio)of epitestoterone DOES NOT CHANGE DAY TO DAY! It takes several weeks for the level to normalize. (until they test the samples for the next day I won't convict him)
2) It is not uncommon to have a pathic race/event one day and do a complete 180 deg. turn around the next. Anyone who has competed knows this.
As for Lance;
No, He was a top cyclist before he had cancer. Some of his Pre-cancer titles include:
World Cycling Champion (1993)
US National Cycling Champion (1993)
Clásica de San Sebastián (1995)
La Flèche Wallonne (1996)
After cancer treatment he returned to cycling, in 1990 he started to train with Chris Carmichael, his coach through all of his years at the Tour De France competitions. The big differences were two fold, 1) Lance came back a lot leaner. 2) Chris changed Lance's riding style. You need understand the relationship between anaerobic and aerobic training and how it relates to cycling.
The next part is the team's sports director, Belgian ex-cyclist Johan Bruyneel, is an excellent strategist, he knows how to get the most out of his riders. Just look at the plan a few stages ago send Hincapie out early, then set a pace so that at the top of the last climb Hincapie can take Contador down the mountain if needed.
Lance is also a fanatic when it came to counting calories, and how much energy he used aways working to keep his power to weight at the best possible. Lance fully understands that 2nd place is the first loser and to win you must be fully dedicated. (something most of us should learn instead of pointing fingers.)
Ohiojeff: In one week I do over 200 miles of training and race once a week, plus work a 50hr work week. And you don't think a pro rider, who does nothing but train and race for living, can't do continous 100+ mile days, You make me laugh.
Like every sport there are a few bad ones but you cant tar every body with the same brush as for lance armstrong he is a natural athlete try and read some of his books about him and you will get a better understanding of his life,and how he battled cancer to become one of the best pro cyclist ever.there is no way he is a cheat.