Armstrong has been tinkered with!!

Originally Posted by Flyer

Let's review for the benefit of objective readers:

Doping Juniors age 18 and under.
Lance's fellow National Junior Teammates Erich Kaiter & Greg Strock admit to receiving 3-4 injections per day while racing in Europe, in July 1990. Lance was with them on that trip--the whole season too.

Greg, Erich & Lance all got gravely ill. Auto-immune dysfunction, chrons colitis and testicular cancer.

One recovered became rich and infamous, the other two are suing Rene Wenzel & USA Cycling for doping minors without informed consent. Chris Carmichael settled early on, and both he and Lance are legally dismissed.

1990 is an important year to reflect upon as it was when EPO began it widespread roll out into the peloton. Invented in 1983, it was purely clinical and secretive until 1988 or so. Laurent Fignon believes that in 1990, EPO became standard medicine amongst GC contenders.

Mentor gone bad?
In 1988 Eddie Merckx admitted to using drugs throughout th 1970s. This after years of denials and three positive tests for stimulants, (Giro, Lombardy & Flanders)

Lance became close to Eddie Merckx while at Motorola and rode on his bike frames. Eddie became a mentor to Lance. On or about November 1995 Eddie Merckx introduced Lance to Michele Ferrari, then infamous for EPO jokes & Orange Juice and a protege of Francesco Conconi, the father of blood doping and mastermind of the Team USA 1984 Olympic blood transfusions.

Lance began working with Ferrari immediately. Lance road strong the very next season winning the Fleche Wallone while getting pipped on the line by Pascal Richard at Liege Bastogne Liege. He also won a another TDF stage.

By October 1996 Lance announced his advanced cancer.

On May 8, 1998 Mauro Gianetti nearly died from an overdose of PFC, perafloracarbon an HBOC oxygen booster agent. He spent 10 days in ICU, recovered and is now Chris Horner's boss at Sanier Duval.
This doping mistake happened in Mauro's important Swiss Race, the Tour of Romandie.

One month later, Willy Voet, high on his Team's drug The Belgian Mix, a compound of Heroin, Cocaine & Morhine was caught out on a secondary road reentering France from Belgium.

He was busted big time as he had massive supplies of EPO, Growth Hormones, Corticosteroids, Belgian Mix, saline feeds, testosterone easter eggs, blood thinning agents and plenty of other drugs.

The 1998 TDF was ruined. Nearly 50% of the field quit or was DQed or was threatened with DQ. Eventually, Marco Pantani won the race.

Marco Pantani is now dead at age 34.

Lance returned from cancer in just one year and claimed 4th in the Vuelta and 4th in the World Championship RR won by---you guessed it Oscar Camenzind. Oscar went on to go EPO positive in July 2004 and is now retired.

May, 1999
Lance proclaimed that doping was "finito" within the peloton. The very next day Pantani was DQed for an illegal hematocrit level.

July 1999
Lance wins the TDF amongst doping rumors. He is able to TUE his way out of a cortisone test failure.

July 2000
French TV-3 films USPO dumping medical waste into a dumspter in a small town in the Maritime Alps.
Actovegin (calf blood) and insulin are found.

Lance eventually confirms possesion (whilst claiming medical privacy) on his own website in December 2000--while threatening to bycott the 2001 TDF, unless the French witchhunt stops.

2004
4 Cycling World Champions go EPO positive. Cofidis blows up, Kelme blows up, the Ausralian Junior and Senior Track programs are tained by horse growth hormones and spent needles in Mark Frenches dorm room. They weasle out and dominate track in the summer months---just recently losing the Junior Champs medals won in Los Angeles.

Greg LeMond accuses Lance of using EPO and hiding a "big secret".

Lance's staff and one teammate accuse him of using illegal drugs

Lance goes bi-polar (or goes Postal) on Stage 18 and 21 as he chases down Filippo Simeoni (114 GC) and assigns his entire team to mark him, spit on him, blow snott on him, and curse both he and his wife (actually much worse things were spoken) on the ride into Paris.

Lance's doctor is convicted of malpractice. After 10 years of support, Lance publicly terminates the relationship. Privately, who knows?

2005
Yet another doping probe is opened to pursue the truth in the matter of Lance and illegal drug abuses.


Wrap-up:
1) Eddie Merckx is both a doper and Lance's mentor
2) Michele Ferrari is an EPO specialist and doper exraordinary performance druggist. Before Lance there was Rominger, Berzin and work with Moser.
Now he is a convicted quack.

3) Chris Camichael was present as the Junior Coach alongside Rene Wenzel in 1990. This was when doping was active with 17 & 18 year olds. A lawsuit still in progress.

4) Greg Lemond thinks Lance is a doper so do a staff and teammate.

Considering the lawsuits and threats that will follow any public disclosures with Lance, Inc. it is remarkable so many people have stepped forward.

But even without these very credible people, the sport speaks for itself. Lance must dope, because everyone else does---and especially since Lance surrounds himself with dopers and advisors who are active participants of doping.

Conjecture, coincidence? It is one hell of a lot of empirical data, that's for sure.

Or is it a duck who can fetch a newspaper?