Yeah, sure. Armstrong could not climb with the mid level European pros. He could not time trial. There was nothing whatsoever to suggest he was capable of breaking the top twenty in the TdF. Nothing. We now know that Armstrong's excuses for his massive improvement, such as weight loss, were a lie. From his retrotested urine, we also know he was using enough EPO in 1999 to supply entire Gewiss team. To suggest his TdF wins, which just happened to coincide with his EPO use, would have taken place without drugs is ludicrous.wolfix said:There is an excellent chance that LA still would have won the TDF if the TDF was 100% clean. There is nothing to suggest otherwise.
Once again the resort of doping apologists rears its head: Even if he did use drugs it was a level playing field and he would have won anyway. And I suppose Riis would have won the Tour without drugs, and Chiappucci would have podiumed without them, and Rumsas would have too, etc. What is so hard about admitting that drugs have completely ****ed up the results of the last decade and a half? That is why people take dope in the first place: To change the results.