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Say it ain’t so. Oh wait, you already did …

October 22, 2012 by Dave Knadler

lance armstrong

They can’t take away the memories.

The funny thing about the Lance Armstrong story is that none of his vacated Tour de France wins can be awarded to second-place finishers, because they were all doping too. The impression I’m left with is that everybody in the entire damned sport has been juiced to gills with banned substances since about 1997.

Clearly it’s time for two separate races: one for the clean riders, and one for the dopers: The Tour de France and the Tour de Syringe. But then you’d need two audiences, and from what I can tell there aren’t enough viewers for even one. Has anybody here watched anything of a Tour de France beyond a four-second clip of Armstrong sprinting to the finish? As a major sporting event, it’s almost as boring as the U.S. Open. And now to learn that it was all chemically enhanced?

Dope or no dope, I suppose we have to agree Lance Armstrong is a hell of an athlete. Too bad he’s also a hell of a liar.

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  1. John H. says

    October 22, 2012 at 3:40 pm

    I think the doping news is by far the most interesting thing about bicycle racing.

    As more and more reports of doping came out, I kept thinking that Armstrong *must* have been doping, too, otherwise how could he keep winning? I can’t find the source now, but I recall a quote from car racing where a guy from one team said that he knew another team was cheating because, “we were cheating, and they were still beating us”.

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