Wednesday, August 24, 2005
Tour de France director: Armstrong 'fooled' sports world
Link below to a story about the latest doping allegations against Lance Armstrong. Most of you know how I feel about this subject, so I won't go into that here. But this is a very interesting development to say the least. No way would the director of the largest sporting event in the world tarnish the reputation of his own race unless he was pretty convinced of what he was saying. Wow.
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I have no way of knowing whether he did or didn't. But when I compare his feats to known drug abusers, Ben Johnson, Barry Bonds, it seems that there is a significant difference. While others apparently saw their performance increase from drug use, Armstrong was clearly invested in a program of training and high tech analysis and strategy, so much so that he changed the complexion of the race itself. And the margins he won by weren't so astonishing that they couldn't be explained by the quality of those those efforts and the single minded focus of his team. Will I be disappointed if it is true? Sure. Will I write him off? No.
Ken
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