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Thursday, June 01, 2006

Completely cleared? Come on.

A few more quick points on Lance Armstrong. It seems that the conventional wisdom, which I have so far heard from more than one radio commentator, is that he has been "completely cleared."
  • I'm not going to take the time to explore this first point, but it seems to me that there may be more circumstantial evidence that Lance was dirty than that Barry Bonds is/was dirty. Isn't it true that Bonds never failed a drug test? Yes, he admitted taking some stuff, but claimed ignorance. There's plenty of smoke in both cases. The drugs Armstrong would have taken don't turn you into a giant, so we can't look at him and be sure of what went on. Plus, he's a heroic, unthreatening, white allegedly nice cancer survivor and Barry Bonds is none of those things.

  • It's well established that cycling is a sport rife with doping. So a clean Armstrong would have had to dominate not just a bunch of clean fellow cyclists, but a bunch of doped ones.

  • If the tests the recent report scrutinized had been to determine whether there was poison in those samples, I am certain Mr. Vrijman would not have been willing to drink the samples after finishing his report. Yet he says the report "exonerates Lance Armstrong completely." I would have no problem if he had said something like "we can't ever know for certain, based on these samples, whether Armstrong used EPO in 1999."


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