The House of Blue

I agree. I guess it's got to the point where you're guilty if you're just accused. He's never been convicted of anything. There are a lot of people making accusations that are jealous of his success. The drug tests he took never showed anything, not once,

Who gives a rip about bicycles?

Free Barry Bonds!!!!!!

Well you have some like above, who is embarrasing to listen to, and you have a NCAA type entity who runs things like idiots. If you couldn't catch him 10 years ago for doping WHY take disgruntled riders say so? Lying goes both ways expecially when an organization can make it worth your while to back them even if it is lies.

My big issue with the way that the situation has been handled by the USADA is twofold:

1. They make it appear, particularly to the US public, as if Armstrong was the only major player in the peloton doping and that Postal/Radioshack/Discovery was the only team doping. This is clearly not true as almost every contender since Le Mond has either been caught doping or has been seriously implicated. Additionally, the sport of cycling has been rife with doping since its inception and doping was legal in the sport until the 60s, I believe (that date may not be right). Amphetamines were a very common drug for riders to abuse. By doing this, meaning by painting only Armstrong and his team in a bad light, they are missing a huge opportunity to help clean up the sport of cycling (and sports in general).
2. They are missing an opportunity to single out the UCI as a horribly corrupt organization. There was clearly bribery and collusion involved in Armstrong's relationship with the UCI. His "donation" to their doping control division after a positive test in the Tour de Suisse is highly suspect. Without any attempt at pursuing either outright litigation versus the UCI or at least a public shaming the USADA is missing a huge opportunity to clean up the sport of cycling (and sports in general).

I know many would argue that these are not the goals of the USADA, but at some point a moral imperative takes precedence. At the end of the day, however, these sports will never be clean unless they truly learn to police themselves, meaning that the players/athletes will have to be on board as a group. There will always be cheaters, but without policies and attitudes in to self police it will never work.

That is equal to saying that Bonnie and Clyde's lifes were ruined by that last shoot-out. No, he had no career outside of cheating so there was no carrer to ruin.

Appearently everybody else was cheating, but he was the one running the whole process of their cheating also.

Scum of the earth.gets what he deserves, finally.