Originally Posted by
Gallo
really? So the other guys doping and using drugs were not using them for the same reasons? were not using the same drugs? how did these degrees differ so much as that it is ok that other doped?
So I know I am a fanboy as the term will come across again. But let the record be clear I am a fan of Lance, Greg and Marco and many others. Lance did much of his own damage by being a jerk. An example is how he claimed to have given Pantani the victory on Ventoux. His vendettas were vicious and well documented at this point.
Your argument of degrees is very weak. It is a black and white issue.
I prefer to let this pass over and am not interested in a witch hunt of past champions. I think the evidence is pretty clear of the rampant use of ped in cycling for many years by many cyclists from many countries.They all did them for the same reason to enhance performance.
lol, yes there are degrees of doping and drug use. Tyler Hamilton discusses this very briefly in an interview you can find a link to on the article I shared. At first, he took one testosterone pill, and then was introduced to other drugs and forms of doping.
Lance was relentless, experimenting with everything: transfusion, epo, hgh, testosterone, and many other drugs and procedures. He had team doctors fired who tried to follow protocol, even superficially. He pushed for USPS to hire the most corrupt doctors who would green light anything and everything.
I'm still gathering the details but your notion that drugs and doping are all equivalent, all or nothing is completely false. There are different degrees of cheating and lance was the biggest cheater.
You can't compare a shoplifter who steals a pack of gum for 50 cents with enron which engaged in tens of billions of dollars worth of fraud.