http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-01-15/will-thomas-weisel-the-owner-of-lance-armstrongs-u-dot-s-dot-postal-team-get-charged-with-fraud

http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2013/01/the_armstrong_interview.html

In a way they did. They were talking about his comeback was the turning point and Armstrong said that had he not come back from his retirement in 2009, he wouldn’t be here doing the interview.

If you had not been outed as a cheat and a liar, would you have agreed to this interview and would you have confessed to doping?

I think we all know the answer.

I think they may as well allow performance enhancing drugs and be done with it. The current situation is that athletes with sophisticated doping regimes overseen by the best doctors, know how to cycle the drugs and avoid detection. Ostapchuk was let down by her team in this regard. She would have had no choice but to take drugs, being on a national team in a former USSR socialist regime.

The test is quite simple. Everyone acknowledges that South African rugby was riddled with steroids before reintegration. Francois Pinaar even wrote about it in his book. Look at the players now. Have the gotten smaller? Slower? Less powerful? If anything they have maintained their levels but got leaner which means they have more endurance.

Similarly the Aussie Open tennis final last year was brilliant. But those guys were still running down shots and smashing ferocious winners at the 4 hour mark. In that heat? After a 2 week tournament? Not normal.

As far as NZ goes I have to say my biggest doubts are over Lisa Carrington, not Val. Carrington came from nowhere to be the best in the world in less than a year. Generally if its too good to be true it probably is.

How about a doping olympics?

We have that already.

I think many people are very naive about their sporting heroes. Drugs are common place and in many sports you have to take them in order to compete at the top level. I am sure our precious Valerie Adams is using performance enhancing drugs. She can bench 160 kg and it is very unlikely she got there without some help. Her over the top reaction and dramatics towards Ostapchuk also raise suspicion.

The silly thing is that the drugs do not give you an advantage anymore. You simply need them to compete on a level playing field. If all cyclists stopped taking drugs, Armstrong would have won just the same. But he had to take them to compete with all the other drug enhanced cyclists.

Of course none of this matters. Armstrong rode push bikes for a living and Adams throws heavy balls. It is all games.

How about a doping olympics? Could be fun to watch .

I’d rather watch Isle of Man TT racing.

Well actually…

How is that bloody possible? That’s what gets me. Someone should’ve blown the lid off drug cheating at the time…

It just seems so insane that nothing was done while all of it was going on at the time. Seven years of it man… holy hell.

Same as Jimmy Saville… hundreds of victims they reckon… so how is it possible that he got away with all of that while he was alive…. for decades!! I don’t get it… I really don’t. Makes zero sense to me.

What a crazy crazy bloody society… that’s unbelievable… incredible….

He arranged for journalists to be sacked (Kimmage, Andreu, Browne). He ruined people’s careers (Anderson, Bassons, Simeoni). He pushed people out of the industry (Greg LeMond). He lied to thousands of people fighting cancer. He’s been investigated for postal fraud, racketeering, tax evasion, drug trafficking, and bribery.

By your logic, Al Capone was a humble purveyor of refreshing beverages.

bit OTT Bazz, like Blair says.

There are several NZ Olympians from a couple of decades back who do not want any whistle blowing going on, NZ is not immune to drugs for success. This I know.

Steroids were everywhere

Really? Over something as silly as sport?

The man rode bicycles for a living, and raced other people on bicycles to see who was faster. I couldn’t give a flying fuck whether he took drugs to be faster than other people on bicycles. It seems like the most trivial thing on earth.

barry – next time you break a nail, why don’t you top yourself and do the rest of us a favour?

I know a cyclist who was uop there and he says armstrong has a makeup artist on the staff. He never knew why – but now he knows – to cover up the needle marks.

The guy should now top himself and do the rest of us a favour.