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> Taking a brief break from War on Terror issues to write about this:
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> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shayana-kadidal/cyclings-latest-scandal_b_49551.html
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> --Shane
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Do you believe?
"Armstrong's former director, Jim Ochowitz, once said the Tour was hard to
win even if you are on drugs. Likewise, Riis today says "I'm proud of my
results even though they were not completely honest." But the story of
journeyman to star - so well-matched to the temperament of this rural,
"effort-over-skill" sport's traditional fanbase - is dead. "For those for
whom I was a hero," Riis said on Friday, "I'm sorry. They'll have to find
new heroes now." And what of that other cycling hero, the one with the
miraculous story of finding inspiration for life in death? Was he also
self-made, in two senses? Did he (like that slugger who "confessed" to
wrongdoing but refused to specify what he did) give himself the near-fatal
illness that now defines him? And then sell his soul to the Devil again to
come back stronger than ever?"