Ouch but hey cheats should be punished.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cycling/19369375
ys wrote:I'm not a fan of him, not against either, but I think that this is ridiculous. Just for the fact that there are many others who did the same and didn't get this punishment. There are even a few who won several times during the sixties etc. who admitted in recent years that everyone took doping back then. But there's been no talk at all of taking their titles. So it's the fact that it's not consequent that bothers me a bit. Like some athletes who performed amazingly and then suddenly quit. They could as well investigate lots of those older cases too.
Who Really Cares? wrote:It is odd they seem to have it in for him so much.
south carmain wrote:the French are really spiteful, they changed the rules because we kept on winning everything at the olympics so we could enter less cyclists and then when we won everything again they accused us of having magic wheels, pas trés classe...
OL wrote:^^Thank you.
He didn't cheat.
He's just refusing to take anymore drug tests, when he's passed all of the multitude of ones he's taken in the past. He's been hounded by this anti-doping group for months now -- post-retirement, no less -- and he just got so tired of their bullshit that he's refusing any more tests. When you accomplish things like he has and people still strive to find fault with your accomplishments, it can wear on you. I don't really blame him for finally just saying "fuck you" to this group and refusing any more of their harassment.
But it's still absolute crap that they're stripping him of everything he's achieved. I hated reading about this. Even more now that apparently people are jumping to the conclusion the he cheated, just based on these headlines.
Axm wrote:Still not sure I follow the argument for him still. Seems like the same situations we have with home run hitters in baseball. And I didn't just read the headlines like you'd like to believe. So I know he hasnt been proven guilty nor innocent, but why avoid taking more tests if it will finally clear his name? If the alligations are so strong with 10 former team mates trying to come out against him why not prove them wrong by just doing it? What is there to loose? If he's passed previously why not pass again? I feel for the guy being hounded so much but why not save the titles on the line? Is one more bullshit test gonna break the guy? Is the USDA really that influenced by the French where he would have no choice to refuse to avoid them lying or tampering with the test?
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