Originally Posted by
Caretaker
Fact: The official expert body (WADA) has declared that Froome HAS NO CASE TO ANSWER, the rest is just a load of armchair 'experts' and Froome-Haters speculating.
A lot of this online stuff is Americans (yes Americans) who still haven't gotten over their hero being exposed as a career bully and cheat. They now devote what spare time they have constructing a narrative that says 'our hero was a victim of a sport that's still as corrupt and dirty as ever'.
Originally Posted by
Marcus_Ti
No...most of us never hero-worshipped Lance. And most new and accepted the man was a jagoff long ago. Froome is in all likelihood just as dirty, he just puts on a nicer personality.
Edit: Even though the LA situation was a debacle and hurt cycling to some degree, the man had a tremendous impact on cancer awareness.
The UCI is too embarrassed to have another winner dinged for doping...so they change the rules/procedures for him and not anyone else who got a ban for the same exact thing.
Thank you Marcus_Ti for putting things in terms that I should have. I wanted to like LA, but even had he been legit, his arrogance was just a turn off to me. I'm not even pulling against Froome or hurling accusations at him for goodness sakes. I'm simply pulling for someone to somehow find a way to completely do away with cheating. That's all! I hear this world against American's on other types of forums as well. I get it. Everyone in the world hates us and judges the entire population on a small % of the population. Makes sense to me. We're all asses.
Edit: Even though the LA situation was a debacle from a cycling standpoint, the man did have a major impact on cancer awareness. Let the world at least give him his due.