The USADA vs. Armstrong Thread (report now released)

I like this line in her reply ...

Maybe she belongs in the thread for the greatest fraud.

 

I guess Hincapie's admission to doping will be ignored completely since he's a good guy. The USA Pro Facebook page is promoting his gran fondo this Saturday and asking fans to post photos of him from the race this year.

 

That's what is bullshit about this while affair

 

Hincapie got a six-month suspension and immunity from further discipline in exchange for a confession.

What further should have happened to him?

 

All of the suspensions are BS since they're being served out of season.

 

Even worse in Hincapie's case - he's retired.

But the example is illustrative of how forgiving the court of public opinion can be - when handed a confession and what seems a sincere apology.

 

He's smack in the middle of said suspension, so maybe USACyling shouldn't be promoting his event?

 

Floyd Landis' whistleblower case against Lance Armstrong is not just surviving...but might soon see Lance have to testify under oath -- in public.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/landis-whistle-blower-suit-against-armstrong-rumbles-on

 

Philip Hersh of Chicago Tribune asks an interesting question: If the IOC is considering whether to set aside its eight-year statute of limitations and strip Lance of the 2000 gold medal, why not also do it and take away medals of the East German swimmers known to have doped?

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/globetrotting/chi-if-armstrong-loses-olympic-medal-why-not-east-germans-20121211,0,7095101.column

Kind of an instructive lesson as people try to sort out their feelings on the Baseball Hall of Fame.

 

Swimmers? How about pretty much every female East German in the Games from the early 70s to the late 80s?

 

Armstrong is reportedly mulling a confession.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/05/sports/cycling/lance-armstrong-said-to-weigh-admission-of-doping.html