Originally Posted by
18hockey
Lemond never talked about doping being why he had such a drop off until Armstrong won the Tour. Before then it was always his disease from the lead in his system that caused it.
that's one thing that always bugged me--the "Lemond was forced out due to EPO."
well, maybe there's some validity to that. but when he dropped out of the '92 tour
andy hampsten was on his way to winning at alpe 'dhiez, and andy is usally considered
a "clean" rider. so, if andy, like lemond, wasn't doping, why is it that andy was able, unlike
lemond, to ride at the front? i'm not saying that epo didn't make the peloton faster, im saying
that it sems higly suspect to me that
"passive doping" was the reason lemond ended his career
on such a low-note.