These people make it difficult for me, someone willing to give Armstrong and other people who havent failed a fully qualified drug test the benefit of the doubt, to not get lumped into the over all lance worship group. Why is it we cant have discussions about this that dont cast dispersions on one side or the other? I guess it's because of all who have been involved.
Lance says he's clean, and has never failed a legitimate drug test as agreed to by all parties. Even the post-dated saddle sore fiasco was still not a high enough value to be positive. But he's looked guilty more than once and he defends himself by attacking others.
Lemond says he was clean and hates dirty cycling (but rode in an era of far less testing), and hates lance for "ruining" his business. The lawsuit on that is over. Lemond should be focusing on building good bikes. He's hurting his own legacy with his involvement in all this mess. He doesnt have direct proof anyone doped, or else we'd have seen it. If hes called to testify about what he's been told directly by LA or others, good. If his involvement in the ongoing investigation helps clean up cycling, good. Otherwise its a waste for everyone.
Landis has lied at every turn, and he's been proven as a liar, not just suspected but proven over and over and over again. His details sound convincing, and it's easy to believe. Just like every time he lied. Is he lying this time? He's admitted to doping himself (except for the time he got caught), and with what he knows about it, it would be easy to take his knowledge, the timeline he was around US Postal, and make a very believable lie. He already has holes in his story (the wrong years Lance was in Tour de Suisse, etc), so that makes it harder to believe him. And if he is coming clean, it's not as some higher calling, its because he wants to use his dirt against people before statute of limitations run out (by his own admittance).
It's an interesting cast of characters.