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| Posted on 2006-08-01 23:47:54 |
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| DeanMoriarty |
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"if it were not an american, then the rider wouldnt be scrutinized a smuch"
This is simply not true. Cycling as a sport in general doesn't care about what nationality you are, if you're caught doping then you're out and your stripped of the whatever you won by CHEATING!
-Roberto Herras (Spainsh) banned and stripped of his Vuelta title)
-David Millar (British) banned and stripped of his world time trial champion title)
-Jan Ulrich (German), Ivan Basso (Italian), Oscar Sevillia (Spanish) and about 30 other riders of different nationalities where implicated in those Spanish investigations and where asked not to ride the Tour De France (as per the code of ethics in Cycling)
I was at the tour for the last week, those three alpine mountain stages, the time trial and Paris. I enjoyed myself very much (took my own bike along and rode some of those hills), was cheering Sastre and Perrerio (wanted a European to win it) at the time I thought fair enough Landis was the better guy.
So the thing I was following and cheering turned out to BE BIG FAT LIE.
Cycling is doing its best to stamp out the cheaters and it's all very visable and makes the sport look bad (at the moment) but the very fact that its taking a hard line and declaring and exposing the cheats and testing them non stop, is a testiment to it and a few years down the line Cyclist will stop using drugs because the risk will become too high.
Lance Armstrong was, and is the most regularly tested athlete in the world, across all sports. Some sports are very slack with drug testing and let their athletes get away with it, does this mean none of those athletes are taking performance enhancing drugs? |
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