I really hope that Lance didn't dope, perhaps he did, but what of all the stages he's won and the surprise doping tests since then? Are we really to believe he needed dope in '99 but not since? Or that he has somehow gotten away with it every time since then, he's won 18 stages and a prologue since then and has been tested all those times, and that's just the TDF. Not to mention other races and surprise visits by UCI WADA or whomever.
As to a much earlier point about his 20 kilo weight loss, whether true or not the story is that he lost the weight while he was undergoing treatment for his cancer. Much of the muscle mass he had built as a triathlete was lost and when he recovered and rebuilt his physique, it was built purely to ride a bike. No development of the swimming or running muscles he'd had before... I don't think Lance has ever reached 200 lbs... but imagine if you could re-do puberty with a singular goal of riding faster, having already been a successful pro cyclist and learned what the limits of human suffering are, not Ventoux, but really having your body ripped apart by medicine and a disease both that may or may not kill you.
Jamba, he's won one more Olympic medal than you have, bronze in the TT in Sydney. He's not related to Neil Armstrong so that's a funny 'blood' connection you've got there, at first I thought you were making a genius pun, but then I kept reading and I ended up very sad... for you. As for your real hero LeMond, sour grapes and bad whine and all of that, he dropped out of a couple of TDFs, and picked up his 8 second margin of victory by using aero bars because while they gave him an unfair advantage they weren't expressly forbidden, like low tech mechanical doping.
I'm sorry to be the voice of hope here but I don't believe that those positive samples were his any more than I believe he has somehow out foxed everyone of the tests since.
As to a much earlier point about his 20 kilo weight loss, whether true or not the story is that he lost the weight while he was undergoing treatment for his cancer. Much of the muscle mass he had built as a triathlete was lost and when he recovered and rebuilt his physique, it was built purely to ride a bike. No development of the swimming or running muscles he'd had before... I don't think Lance has ever reached 200 lbs... but imagine if you could re-do puberty with a singular goal of riding faster, having already been a successful pro cyclist and learned what the limits of human suffering are, not Ventoux, but really having your body ripped apart by medicine and a disease both that may or may not kill you.
Jamba, he's won one more Olympic medal than you have, bronze in the TT in Sydney. He's not related to Neil Armstrong so that's a funny 'blood' connection you've got there, at first I thought you were making a genius pun, but then I kept reading and I ended up very sad... for you. As for your real hero LeMond, sour grapes and bad whine and all of that, he dropped out of a couple of TDFs, and picked up his 8 second margin of victory by using aero bars because while they gave him an unfair advantage they weren't expressly forbidden, like low tech mechanical doping.
I'm sorry to be the voice of hope here but I don't believe that those positive samples were his any more than I believe he has somehow out foxed everyone of the tests since.