Originally Posted by celticfrost
Am I missing something? I must be.
But here's a piece from the article:
"Lance Armstrong admitted he has taken the performance-enhancing drug erythropoietin (EPO) at the time he was treating his cancer, French daily Le Monde reported on Friday."
Is EPO not a cancer treatment?
Really two topics here:
- Reference to the fact that Lance admits to using EPO DURING his cancer treatment; this is already known...I believe he mentioned it during the famous Larry King interview and stated that there's no way that traces of EPO from '96 would still be around 3 yrs later when he won in '99.
- Allegations that when they were determining his cancer treatment regimine, he admited to the doctor that he had used EPO in the past (from Rueters article: ""According to new testimonies gathered from October 2005 to January 2006 by a court in Dallas, the seven-times Tour de France winner told a Indiana University Hospital doctor on October 28, 1996 he has taken performance-enhancing drugs,")