obviously i'm not a professional athlete. so i don't know what they face from day to day. they face things i've never encountered. but i'll say this, the athlete owes me a clean body, ... free from drugs that will make the player better. free from drugs that will make the playing field unfair. that's ethics. that's a code a player should follow. if lance took drugs, he should pay, ... whatever the payment is. the highest payment is that he will have to live with cheating. if.
a cyclist is an amazing athlete. it takes strength of the mind and body like no other sport.
conspiracy, they say ...
(they are speaking of lance) Instead he exercised his legal right not to contest the evidence and knowingly accepted the imposition of a ban from recognized competition for life and disqualification of his competitive results from 1998 forward. The entire factual and legal basis on the outcome in his case and the other six active riders’ cases will be provided in the materials made available online later today. Two other members of the USPS Team, Dr. Michele Ferrari and Dr. Garcia del Moral, also received lifetime bans for perpetrating this doping conspiracy. -- USADA CEO Travis T. Tygart, October 10, 2012
armstrong says that he doesn't/didn't dope. a lot of other people say that he did. i'm not the judge or the jury. a part of me says he should be fighting it all the way. i don't know. i don't know.
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