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| My view is that LA was allways doping.
He had a quite big medical stuff with him. | |
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I think you mean staff... One perspective is to look at the number of people that would know of his supposed doping. As the number of people increase, the probability of them leaking the information also increases. Therefore I think this argument works better in the other direction. Also, over the course of seven years, no mistake was made and nobody "in the know" leaked his supposed doping, under all the scrutiny and observation?
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| He retired just when the new EPO test was ready. That EPO test caught all the high profile riders that came close to him ( Basso, Ulrich, Landis etc ) | |
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Valid point; does anyone know if they have run the new tests on his old blood?
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| Do you want me to believe that he was so superior to everyone else in the field that he accomplished all this clean while all the other contenders were dirty ? | |
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No, but I like to believe that it is possible for athletes to win without cheating, and I would prefer people don't assume guilt on athletes until the are shown to be guilty. Unfortunately it does seem somewhat rare in recent years to find clean winners.
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| He'll race on that dope, win and retire on time to stay "clean" | |
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I would be very, very, very surprised if this were the case. Why would any sane cheater with a world record 7 TDF wins come back, under the most advanced observation possible, to risk it all? And again, if he has a team of doctors comes up with this new doping technique that even the biological passport shows no changes, wouldn't some doctor, some secretary, somebody decide to leak it to the press for far more money than they'd otherwise make?
It seem quite feasible (within the realm of possibility) that if you train all year specifically for a particular race then you might win, especially when everybody else is racing and burning out leading up to the race. Do you disagree?