do u think Lance Armstrong is a doper?

Question

i do there is so much evedence

Answer 1

Of course he doped. All riders dope. They all take something. The two questions they ask themselves are 1) Is this substance prohibited? and 2) Will I get caught? There are so many things that a rider can do that are not illegal and not detectable.

I used to say that there are clean riders. However, after my tour of the French Alps and riding up and down Mont Ventoux, I am more than convinced that they all take something. The roads are crazy steep and the speeds they climb at are even crazier.

Answer 2

Here is my take on it. The entire sport of cycling is dirty. This year we were given hope that the sport would clean itself up. But no, we saw incredible expulsions during the tour by three of the top riders in the world. Even before the tour, the guilt of Jan Ulrich and Ivan Basso was shocking enough. The most important thing about these two is this...they never failed a drug test. Not a single one. Which leads me to my conclusion that doctors have been ahead of the tests for many years. I suspect that there are many more out there who just have not been caught. Fuentes was only one doctor in the European sporting world. There are more.

Now on to Lance. We have no definitive proof that he ever doped. And since I truly believe in the concept of innocent unless proven guilty, I am not going to say that Lance is a doper. I will say this though. In today's atmosphere of the professional peloton, riders are being suspended for less evidence than has surfaced about Lance. He admits work with doctor who has been linked to doping. Last week that got DiLuca expelled from the Pro Tour. Fellow riders and staff have very similar stories as to his doping. Rasmussen was sacked because his team didn't know where he was for a few weeks. My sense is that it would be different for Lance today.

Answer 3

i believe when millions are at stake, almost all top level athletes do whatever it takes to get the edge. there is this attitude that if you don't dope, you can't compete because the rest are doing it. more and more scandles are coming to light to show what i have said for years, most professional athletes are not doing it clean. this goes from football, to track, to cycling and even tennis. they deny, deny, deny in public, but behind the scenes they do the enhancers.

armstrong is a hero to millions, and they will get very defensive at any suggestion of wrong doing. the bottom line is a person can have thier opinion, but opinions don't mean much. it comes down to what you can prove, and no one has ever proved he cheated.

yes, he was tested time and again, but the technology of masking and hiding different things continually evolves as the tests get better. i dont believe landis just suddenly did testosterone. more likely he had been dancing the line for a long time, and when he got desperate, he took too much or at the wrong time and got caught. i believe these pro docs know how to do it without getting caught. again, they will deny this happens, but if you go far enough in any sport, you will find out for yourself. it is even very available at the semi-pro levels, where i have ridden. money was never that much at that level, not enough to risk cancer or being banned, but if you had enough talent, i could see where the temptation to go that next step would be very real. i guess i was blessed enough to be decent, but not so good as to get tempted. to each thier own...if armstrong doped, he will have to live with it. if his recovery boosted what was already there, in the legitimate rout to recovery, then be happy for him. if he did it all on his own, more power to him. we will never know for sure.

Answer 4

Lance Armstrong is the most tested athlete in the history of drug testing. Nobody has found evidence of illegal doping. There is only unsubstantiated accusation.

Lance should be left alone with respect to this issue. Let him pursue all the great things he's doing for cancer charities.

Answer 5

He absolutely was for at least part of his career, though he never tested positive. I say this after having read Willy Voet's book, "Breaking the Chain". Doping in the 90's was even more pervasive in cycling than steroids in baseball. EVERYONE did it. Ask yourself why Lance rode so few races. To clear his system of performance enhancers. Why seek treatment from an Italian physician (Ferrari) while living in Spain? Hmmmmm.
I love his heroics in the Tour, but he did not always ride clean.

Answer 6

There is ZERO proof that he ever used illegal drugs ! ZERO ! Lance was tested more than anyother person in history. And he ALWAYS came up CLEAN. I think people who keep asking this same question over and over and over are on drugs themselves. Maybe you can have your mother read you the book "It's Not About the Bike". You can learn alot about Lance's life from it.

Answer 7

What evidence do you have? Other than second-hand specualtion from former employees that feel they were wrongly fired, there is no evidence. Just a bungling French lab and a British journalist with a grudge.

Answer 8

He spent his whole career ripping the legs off of guys who later admitted or were found to have doped, surrounded by teammates who were mostly later caught doping, under the supervision of a personal doctor who narrowly avoided a prison sentence (legal technicality) for supplying performance enhancing drugs to other cyclists. Of course he was clean.

Answer 9

Lance Armstrong had testicular cancer, and he had to have his testicles removed. Now he gets injections of testosterone.
It's not really a secret, but it's not the kind of thing people want to talk about either.

Answer 10

Andrew> you must ride north shore eh
I wouldn't ride that stuff without doping. LOL

Lance, if he did, he did a good job of hiding it. I would vote no