Is Lance Armstrong Innocent?
SodaHead Sports
2012/06/14 16:00:00
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Cycling legend and seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong has long denied charges of using performance-enhancing drugs, specifically blood doping. Even with a number of his old teammates failing drug tests and claiming otherwise to the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, Armstrong has still denied. Unfortunately for the cancer survivor and inspirational leader of the 'Livestrong' movement, perception is reality and either this is a witch hunt -- or enough smoke to explore the fire.
"I have never doped, and, unlike many of my accusers, I have competed as an endurance athlete for 25 years with no spike in performance, passed more than 500 drug tests and never failed one,” Armstrong said via a statement on his official website. “That USADA ignores this fundamental distinction and charges me instead of the admitted dopers says far more about USADA, its lack of fairness and this vendetta than it does about my guilt or innocence.”
Armstrong is charged with taking testosterone and participating in blood doping, but he can stand trial and defend himself against those allegations. Yet if he loses, he will be stripped of all seven of his Tour de Frances titles and could even be subject to a government investigation, much like baseball legend Roger Clemens is. Not to mention the fact that if found guilty, it would break the hearts of hundreds of thousands of fans who supported him. This is only just the beginning though, so stay tuned. Do you think Lance Armstrong is innocent?
"I have never doped, and, unlike many of my accusers, I have competed as an endurance athlete for 25 years with no spike in performance, passed more than 500 drug tests and never failed one,” Armstrong said via a statement on his official website. “That USADA ignores this fundamental distinction and charges me instead of the admitted dopers says far more about USADA, its lack of fairness and this vendetta than it does about my guilt or innocence.”
Armstrong is charged with taking testosterone and participating in blood doping, but he can stand trial and defend himself against those allegations. Yet if he loses, he will be stripped of all seven of his Tour de Frances titles and could even be subject to a government investigation, much like baseball legend Roger Clemens is. Not to mention the fact that if found guilty, it would break the hearts of hundreds of thousands of fans who supported him. This is only just the beginning though, so stay tuned. Do you think Lance Armstrong is innocent?
Top Opinion
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Laura Lovegood 2012/06/14 20:03:45
This does not, however, detract from the fact that these athletes train like absolute animals and put their bodies through unimaginable trials to get to where they are. The drugs merely make it possible to push themselves for longer periods of time.
Perhaps he never did any drugs (no test has shown he has BTW) but this would be amazing because the guys in 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc. are all using enhancement methods. Lance gets a lot of focus because he is A. not French; and B. the man on top-no on likes an overachiever.
At this point why don't you just leave the guy alone. To charge him after retirement is to dig OJ Simpson up after he is buried and defame his dead body for being a murderer. Totally inane.
From BBC Sport: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/...
"In its 15-page letter, USADA said its investigation included evidence dating back to 1996 and accused Armstrong of a 'pervasive pattern of doping' over many years.
"It says it collected blood samples from him in 2009 and 2010 that were 'fully consistent with blood manipulation including EPO use and/or blood transfusions.'"
I don't know if Armstrong cheated or not. But you seem to be saying that if he did cheat, it would be okay because he didn't "harm" anybody.
For crying out loud, are we not allowed to hold ourselves and others to any standards anymore???
Cycling is entering a golden age and needs to leave the past behind.
I am looking forward to Le Tour and Cavendish in green (again) and slaughtering the Champs (again)
If not why do they keep trying to nail this drug wrap on him? bark
We have greater problems to solve. There are thousands of real "dopers" out there who are collecting social security disability and going out and spending the money on buying more drugs. The US is supporting the drug cartels--investigate that!
That is the way the US justice works.
Personally, I do think that he used performance-enhancing drugs.
Steroids and exogenous testosterone abuses are known to cause testicular cancer.
Why did Lance Armstrong got testicular cancer in the first place at that young age?
That’s a symptom of steroid abuse...
It makes him sort of like a combat vet. Hard to compete against.