Originally Posted by
Brian Ratliff
Actually, more likely that Lance was doping (maybe, probably, on and off) his entire career, comes back and is now perfectly clean. It's really a no-loss situation for him. He comes back after a 3 year break and if he can't win the tour, he has the perfect excuse. If he comes close, then he can say that he didn't need the dope. Meanwhile, he gets tested 40 billion times, always coming up clean because he is clean (this time around), and slowly scrubs his name of this doping stuff.
Just speculation. But it makes more sense than to go back to the lion's den when the lion has had three more years to make up new tricks for catching him.
or...the guy is plain clean that nobody seems to believe. I am not saying that LA hasn't taken every possible performance enhancing substance throughout his career that feathers the edge of legality "like every other cyclist during that time period". You would have thought that Armstrong as clever as he is would have been tripped up at least "once" after being tested hundreds of times after winning the TdF 2 X's in a row.
A further thought is this. Why should Lance go back into the lion's den other than to promote his brand? Because heads up...clean to clean...he thinks he has the best shot at winning.