Originally Posted by Hitchy
...I'm no fan of any drug cheats, but if we acknowledge that they're all on something....its hard to be critical of one drug cheat over another....I'm locked out of cyclingforums, but maybe you can remind him that Eddie & lance have also had positive tests to banned substances....he gunna pay out on them too?...mind you it's pretty easy to pay out on anyone when you're an annonymous screen name & don't accept the consequences of what you say. Doesn't really need much courage!. My only problem with Virenque was that he continued to deny it even after he'd been busted...(even wrote a book saying he was innocent!)....If I had any respect for drug cheats, (which I don't really!) I could respect someone like millar who at least 'fessed up. Can't say the same about Tyler....WTF chromosone disease is he on about?
Hitchy
Yeah...the denying it come hell or high water was pretty rich. Should've come clean and got it over with, he'd be regretting that now.
Will be a pretty small pro bunch if riders who have only ever returned clean samples and didn't have the "letter form the doctor that I'm an asthmatic". I've seen it first hand, a bloke I raced with in Holland was kind of famous locally for being able to hook you up with anything from ephedrine to Pot Belge.....madness. Guys will take anything that is even ruimoured to help performance.