RE: Who’s been a naughty cyclist?
January 18, 2013 at 2:49 pm
(This post was last modified: January 18, 2013 at 2:57 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(January 18, 2013 at 4:12 am)Aractus Wrote: Who’s been a naughty cyclist?
I am a cyclist, and I am very, very naughty. Does that count?
But seriously, Armstrong's doping in itself couldn't not have damaged the sport cycling anymore than the doping that was done by everyone else, or by the doping that would have been done by whoever else would have won the Tour if Armstrong didn't dope.
But by doping and winning the Tour a record, and in all seriousness an unbelieveable, 7 times, he did make his doping into something of a farce.
That did damage the sport.
The farce became even more farcical when, after winning his 7th tour and retiring while dogged by allegations of doping, he pretended to try to prove he didn't dope by coming out of retirement back to the race and trying win his 8th tour, by doping again.
It is hard to imagine how much more farcical it could get. To prove he did it without doping, he tried to do it again while secretly doping.
