A Highly Uninformed Defence of Lance Armstrong
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A Highly Uninformed Defence of Lance Armstrong[^]
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
I've mixed feelings on this topic. I feel as if the guy has been singled out, not because he was doping but because he was too successful. Unless the USADA is full of idiots they already know you aren't going to win the Tour without some sort of doping - and that is what bothers me a bit. He wasn't targetted because he was doping but because he was too damn good at it and he won too many times. Had we won 3 Tours they'd of ignored him entirely. The point? Don't pretend to be against doping when in fact you're just against too much of it. The hypocrisy there bothers me. I experience a form of this every day on the way to work. I can go 5mph over the speed limit and the cops don't care. However, if you make it obvious (10mph) over then they'll nail you. In both cases the law is being broken - so it isn't really the law that matters - but rather, who is being obnoxious about it. Maybe the rule should be changed from No Doping to No Being Obnoxious.
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A Highly Uninformed Defence of Lance Armstrong[^]
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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A Highly Uninformed Defence of Lance Armstrong[^]
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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I challenge anyone to ride a bike, up a mountain, dressed in Lycra, looking at other men in Lycra, while surrounded by French people and not take drugs.
Too funny!
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Then what should I do? ;p
'I'm French! Why do you think I've got this outrrrrageous accent?' Monty Python and the Holy Grail
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Then what should I do? ;p
'I'm French! Why do you think I've got this outrrrrageous accent?' Monty Python and the Holy Grail
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Then what should I do? ;p
'I'm French! Why do you think I've got this outrrrrageous accent?' Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Move to Germany. :)
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Then what should I do? ;p
'I'm French! Why do you think I've got this outrrrrageous accent?' Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Move?
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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A Highly Uninformed Defence of Lance Armstrong[^]
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Sounds a lot like the average voter everywhere :laugh:
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Move?
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
Just do what the average French does, drink enormous amounts of alcohol each day :laugh:
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A Highly Uninformed Defence of Lance Armstrong[^]
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
I try to stay out of it but ... If they tried to ban him once and failed, trying again for the same charge over the same period is not fair. Independent of all things, you can't just try to find someone guilty of the same charge constantly until you eventually win. Of course I am completely uninformed in the matter. I do not know how many times Lance has beaten the wrap just that it was more than once.
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A Highly Uninformed Defence of Lance Armstrong[^]
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
From my understanding. Everyone who ratted on Lance for taking drugs knew about it cause they were also taking them. Which leads me to believe all cyclists do it. If everyone is doing it than it was an even playing field in which Lance won. Give that man back his titles. :-D
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From my understanding. Everyone who ratted on Lance for taking drugs knew about it cause they were also taking them. Which leads me to believe all cyclists do it. If everyone is doing it than it was an even playing field in which Lance won. Give that man back his titles. :-D
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Then what should I do? ;p
'I'm French! Why do you think I've got this outrrrrageous accent?' Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Stay away from Lycra and you'll probably be fine.
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Then what should I do? ;p
'I'm French! Why do you think I've got this outrrrrageous accent?' Monty Python and the Holy Grail
With a plate of Livarot and Saint-Nectaire in front of you and a nice bottle of wine, who cares!
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Ok, I realize that biker refers to people on motorobikes, so what do you guys call yourself?
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I'm not one, but I like the term: pedeldestrian
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I think DodgeBall can hold up, because not only did he refer to his cycling career, but also to surviving his TC, as I recall, so there :wtf:
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Ok, I realize that biker refers to people on motorobikes, so what do you guys call yourself?
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A Highly Uninformed Defence of Lance Armstrong[^]
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
I note that you are a keen cyclist. What sort of drugs are you on then?
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I note that you are a keen cyclist. What sort of drugs are you on then?
*pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington
"Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
I note that you are a keen cyclist. What sort of drugs are you on then?
I can atest as a witness, it's not alcohol.
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I note that you are a keen cyclist. What sort of drugs are you on then?
*pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington
"Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos
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I aspire to be the sort of cyclist for whom drugs would make a difference. :sigh:
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