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Other Cyclists Backing Claims Armstrong Doped

Lance 'encouraged' drug use, source tells Times

By Mary Papenfuss,  Newser Staff

Posted Aug 5, 2010 5:01 AM CDT | Updated Aug 5, 2010 7:00 AM CDT

(Newser) – Other cyclists are supporting teammate Floyd Landis' claims that Lance Armstrong has systematically used performance enhancing drugs. One rider—who has never tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs—detailed his drug use to investigators, which he said was done with Armstrong's knowledge and encouragement, he told the New York Times.

Armstrong was not immediately available to comment to the Times, but he said last month that he would deny involvement in doping "as long as I live." A grand jury in Los Angeles is investigating doping in the sport now. Jeff Novitzky, a special agent for the Food and Drug Administration, is running the investigation.

Lance Armstrong.
Lance Armstrong.   (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, Fie)
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YourBabysitter
Aug 8, 2010 7:56 AM CDT
adults on bikes..... carrying on like children..... take your bikes and go home! We don't care anymore!
hwoodude
Aug 7, 2010 7:39 AM CDT
Perhaps every professional athlete should be subject to drug testing, anytime, anyplace, for any reason? If owners of teams invest millions and millions in franchises, TV programming, stadiums, training facilities, insurance, employee's, etc., and this investment can be seriously damaged if an athlete uses drugs, why can't owners be protected? Plus fans being protected from hopped up athletes? Barry Bonds home run output jumped considerable during the years he evidently used steroids. What about players that did not use drugs, who had to compete against him? And what kind of an example is this to young people who participate in sports? Drug testing, any time, any place. PERIOD!
Shawn_The_Bohn
Aug 6, 2010 4:12 AM CDT
I don't like to tear heroes down until its clear that they deserve it, and it's not clear that Lance deserves it. Not until the smoking gun comes out. Allegations are just that, allegations, anyone can make them. Everyone thinks everyone else is doping in cycling already, so of course they think Lance doped, he won 7 in a row. You're quite a target for this kind of thing when you win that much. People who dedicate their lives to this thing and lose become jealous, disbelieving, and they may even have an axe to grind for personal reasons. They may think "I doped, yet he won, he must be doping." That may have some statistical validity if you were going to place a bet, but it's far from being hard proof. Even if he did dope everyone else probably did too. Truthfully, nobody deserves any of those victories. Because of that the sport should just let bygones be bygones, why add to the cynicism of the world over something that inspires people but is kind of meaningless in the big picture?
 

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