Author Topic: Lance Armstrong Cleared of Doping Charges (Read 431 times)

soda72 · « **on:** May 31, 2006, 04:18:52 PM »

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Independent Dutch investigators have cleared seven-time Tour de France cycling champion Lance Armstrong of the United States of doping in the 1999 race, and have blamed anti-doping officials for misconduct in the case.

http://www.voanews.com/english/2006-05-31-voa35.cfm

To all you Lance Bashers..

SirLoin · « **Reply #1 on:** May 31, 2006, 04:36:00 PM »

It's about time...I hope he sue's their panzy asses...~:)

Dago · « **Reply #2 on:** May 31, 2006, 05:28:07 PM »

Well it would be nice to see this publicized as much as the original charges. I bet most French news organizations dont bother covering it.

Holden McGroin · « **Reply #3 on:** May 31, 2006, 06:36:38 PM »

So now can we start counting his home runs? wait a minute...

Sixpence · « **Reply #4 on:** May 31, 2006, 10:17:15 PM »

He got away with it? They couldn't prove it, so they had to clear him, he was a juicer, no doubt. The white guys always get off

straffo · « **Reply #5 on:** May 31, 2006, 11:52:11 PM »

Cleared by a Lawyer ?

And you believe this ?

Buy a brain.

soda72 · « **Reply #6 on:** June 01, 2006, 08:57:00 AM »

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Originally posted by straffo

Buy a brain.

hmmm, don't we seem to be a little bit upset..

I hear sour grapes are good for that..

straffo · « **Reply #7 on:** June 01, 2006, 01:52:23 PM »

I'm not upset.
I just find very entertaining the idea that someone can believe there is one person clean in this sport (Lance of any other)

StarOfAfrica2 · « **Reply #8 on:** June 01, 2006, 04:27:38 PM »

Hehehehe

The drama continues!

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13062398/

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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - The French sports newspaper that accused Lance Armstrong of doping stood by its reporting Thursday, a day after an investigator cleared the seven-time Tour de France champion.

navajoboy · « **Reply #9 on:** June 01, 2006, 04:35:59 PM »

just like the old "why pick indian crab" anaology...

Picking indian crabs is better then picking white crabs because when one crab get to the top of the bucket to escape, the others will pull him back in because if they dont have a chance to get out, why should the one on top get a chance too? White crabs will help each other escape.

Just to let you know there is no indian crabs... its an anaology used when we describe the way the Native American society works. Some of the Native American people don't celebrate or recognize accomplishment but rather put it down or find the faults in the accomplishment.

Captain Virgil Hilts · « **Reply #10 on:** June 01, 2006, 04:54:14 PM »

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Originally posted by straffo
Cleared by a Lawyer ?

And you believe this ?

Buy a brain.

Accused by a French organization with an agenda?

And you believe this?

Works both ways.

AFTER he won seven in a row and retired he is accused of something that supposedly happened 7 years before. By way of using testing done under less than honest circumstances.

So a lawyer clearing him (who says it was the lawyer that cleared him anyway?) is supposed to be less believable than the accusation was to begin with?

Gh0stFT · « **Reply #11 on:** June 01, 2006, 05:02:19 PM »

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Originally posted by Captain Virgil Hilts
AFTER he won seven in a row and retired he is accused of something that supposedly happened 7 years before.

just wait until the FIA found something against Schumachers
7 Formula 1 world titles. People will allways search for something
if a human wins more then the usual brain can accept.
For me Lance is an outstanding athlet, i watched the last
4 years Tour de France, even i'm Jan Ulrich fan, but Lance
was fantastic to watch live at the races.
I hope he starts 2006 after all the BS in the newspaper.

straffo · « **Reply #12 on:** June 01, 2006, 11:59:07 PM »

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Originally posted by Captain Virgil Hilts
Accused by a French organization with an agenda?

The LNDD is not an organisation

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And you believe this?[/B]

Thr LNDD , yes, l'équipe ... not allways.

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Works both ways.

AFTER he won seven in a row and retired he is accused of something that supposedly happened 7 years before. By way of using testing done under less than honest circumstances.[/B]

As each winner of the TdF he was supect during all this period.

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So a lawyer clearing him (who says it was the lawyer that cleared him anyway?) is supposed to be less believable than the accusation was to begin with? [/B]

it's in the linked article.

Holden McGroin · « **Reply #13 on:** June 02, 2006, 01:58:07 AM »

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Originally posted by straffo
The LNDD is not an organisation

Then what is it?

"I belong to no organised political pary... I am a Democrat" -- Will Rogers

You'd think they could get a lot more done if they were organized.

straffo · « **Reply #14 on:** June 02, 2006, 02:20:08 AM »

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Originally posted by Holden McGroin
Then what is it?

It's an EPA : http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Établissement_public_à_caractère_administratif

It's independant.

BTW I should remember that Lance got caught in 1999 but produced a document "a posteriori" violating the regulation of the UCI ... and the UCI accepted the document as valid violating it's own rules !.