Professional Cycling For the Fans - The Armstrong Effect

They, aka Astana, can't get caught. Bruyneel is a dirty mofo. They do their same tricks and the UCI does nothing about it.

They'll never test positive because there is always time to manipulate urine and blood before the testers take samples. The UCI is very complicit in all of this. Allowing certain riders to take a half-hour, even a full hour to go get ready for so called "unannounced" drug testing. The national drug agencies are aware of how corrupt the UCI is. Even this year, after the whole Armstrong showergate scandal, Bruyneel was up to his tricks again, and stalling to get his team a full hour to prepare for their "unannounced" drug test the day of the team time trial.

So Bellweatherman,

What do you contend that they are doing to prepare during this 1/2-1 hour? Running a catheter up their urethra and injecting fresh urine? Accomplishing a complete blood transfusion? I.V. feeding plasma? I'm curious.

Funny how many people in the 60s and 70s loved Merckx. My wife is German and reports when she was a teen and preteen all the kids in her village loved Merckx. One should remember that Rudi Altig was active at the time and at the time was also the best German cyclist ever.

Many people love Armstrong also.
I wasn't alive in the 60s/70s, but I would be very surprised if Merckx was universally liked by cycling fans back then...


What do you contend that they are doing to prepare during this 1/2-1 hour? Running a catheter up their urethra and injecting fresh urine? Accomplishing a complete blood transfusion? I.V. feeding plasma? I'm curious.

There was a big debate in Germany a couple months ago, after two players from a rather prominent soccer club (Hoffenheim if you want to look it up) let the doping controllers wait 15 minutes before giving their samples, and they almost got banned because of it. Apparently there's a lot you can do and take to tamper with the sample in even such a short amount of time.

So Bellweatherman,

What do you contend that they are doing to prepare during this 1/2-1 hour? Running a catheter up their urethra and injecting fresh urine? Accomplishing a complete blood transfusion? I.V. feeding plasma? I'm curious.

Lance is a millionaire, and therefore has the cutting edge science to go undetected... / sarcasm. It is clear that the whole Astana team is clean. Until they test positive, we have to give them the benefit of the doubt, just like your employer gives you the benefit of the doubt when you don't test positive for a drug test.