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With all due respect BB, Lance was stricken with cancer prior to his cycling career being one of relevance. He has admitted that it wasn't until he contracted, treated and recovered from cancer that he was able to shed the body-weight necessary to truly be a competitive cyclist. Prior to his recovery he was a thicker, more muscular individual that you normally don't see winning bike races.
When I enter into discussion about his wins or whether I think he's guilty or what have you, I always ask if people think it's relevant that he has about the lowest resting heart rate I've ever heard of (even for an athlete), or that he has one of the highest V02 max numbers I've seen and if by chance he might just simply be better.
And to echo what some others have posted, he has been tested 500 times over a decade, if he had been cheating should the test's not have detected an abnormality in at least a single instance over that same period? It would stand to reason that if the sanctioning bodies are so eager to eliminate him as a champion they would go to any lengths necessary to advance the testing and detection protocols in order to be able to do so, no? Let's be honest science has come a long way over that same period and other athletes are caught every day.
I do want to say that I have no skin in the game and am glad he's decided not to participate in the foolishness any longer. He's proven his point, won his races and is now doing good work for others, good for him. On a side note, I did read that the governing bodies are having a hard time giving the championships to other racers as all of the one's immediately behind Armstrong have been caught for using banned substances so it looks like 10th place will be the Tour winner. for 2000,,,,2001......
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