Originally Posted by
Zinger
At the risk of being labeled anything but a casual fan of Armstrong during his streak, do you guys suppose the field might've been juicing in '98? The OP has a point. If you're going to hate on juicers you might as well spread it around.
The hypocrisy is self evident in this one. If you wanted to be competitive in that era you juiced and you lied about it to protect your investment in your career. There is a certain degree of nationalism at work here to give a pass to Pantani when everybody was aware that he juiced and gave him a pass for it while scrutinizing Armstrong.
Personally I'm glad this went down if it means cleaning up the sport but I'm not going to be scapegoating one person for it and that's kind of what happens here whether people want to admit it or not.
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The USPS Team doping conspiracy was professionally designed to groom and pressure athletes to use dangerous drugs, to evade detection, to ensure its secrecy and ultimately
gain an unfair competitive advantage through superior doping practices," Tygart said in a press release.
Read more:
Lance Armstrong not only used performance-enhancing drugs, cyclist pushed banned substances on teammates: U.S. Anti-Doping Agency report - NY Daily News
I'm still looking for details on this, but if you think that the quality and efficacy of doping across teams and riders was equal, you are dead wrong.
Lance was experimenting for a very long time, and used EVERY drug possible to gain the largest advantage.