I've long maintained that there should be an "open" class in all sporting events. Persons competing in this class are encouraged to take all the performance enhancing drugs and install all the modifications that money can buy.
I would watch!
Absolutely.I'm picturing lots of broken bones, blood, carnage, and roid rage.
Imagine you can choose the Regular Olympics or the Super Olympics.
The Super Olympics demonstrates the absolute best of what the human mind AND body combined can produce. Jump twice as far. Run twice as fast and so on.
Think of the advances in science that could be made with the injection of funding that making such things "sporting" legal would incite.
For example :
It is hard to get funding to develop a decent artificial limb in the current economic environment. Make a sport where you can fit an artificial limb that will throw twice as far as a regular one , and have it "legal" to do so in competition - and you'll magically have enough capital to develop one, and be able to make a half decent ROI when the product is developed, commercialised and marketed to the general public.
I'm picturing lots of broken bones, blood, carnage, and roid rage.
I'm picturing lots of broken bones, blood, carnage, and roid rage.
I'm picturing lots of broken bones, blood, carnage, and roid rage.
Doesn't look like Lance Armstrong takes steroids.If dude isn't named armstrong, he should be.
(http://healthlevelup.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/steroidsthebad.jpg)
Well, I'd say that the financial impact of winning the 7 Tours back-to-back has pretty much run its course. He's crunched the numbers and concluded that stripping him of those titles doesn't amount to much insofar as $$ are concerned.
He's maintained he's been tested all the way, in every way, before during and after every Tour and they've come up empty each time.
Sounds like there were some goodies available at the time which the technology couldn't identify in a whiz test (kinda stoopid to ban a substance if you can't ****ing test for it), and now there is the technology to detect substances in samples.
There's a lot that isn't being said. Have they maintained those samples after all this time? Any degradation in them?
At the end of the day, the "Anti-Doping Agency" does seem to be determined to jam it up Armstrong's ass, and it just doesn't make sense to fight it any more if there isn't a financial incentive to do it.
Either that or he's guilty as sin.
Come to think of it, I think chris has the right idea:
:yawn:
Sounds like there were some goodies available at the time which the technology couldn't identify in a whiz test (kinda stoopid to ban a substance if you can't ****ing test for it), and now there is the technology to detect substances in samples.
There's a lot that isn't being said. Have they maintained those samples after all this time? Any degradation in them?
At the end of the day, the "Anti-Doping Agency" does seem to be determined to jam it up Armstrong's ass, and it just doesn't make sense to fight it any more if there isn't a financial incentive to do it.
Either that or he's guilty as sin.
For me gotta wonder why the witch hunt all these years? If he wasn't American would they still do this?
I've long maintained that there should be an "open" class in all sporting events. Persons competing in this class are encouraged to take all the performance enhancing drugs and install all the modifications that money can buy.
Gotta wonder who he PO'd.
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Gotta wonder who he PO'd.
IOW this whole thing is akin to, say, Congress on a witch hunt as to who was juicing in baseball instead of, you know, actually doing THEIR REAL JOB.
Doesn't look like Lance Armstrong takes steroids.
(http://healthlevelup.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/steroidsthebad.jpg)
Don't get why anyone would do this at all. Why would anyone want to be this bulbous? I mean, if he and I got into it, I'm sure I could tag him 2, 3, 4 times before he could swing his damn arm. No point in having that kind of strength if it's hard to use it...
I say good on Lance. This is a clear witch hunt, and from what I hear the Tour de France committee refuses to strip him of his titles without evidence, which the USADA does not have. He shouldn't have to play along with their little games.
I wondered how the USADA had the authority to strip him of the titles. I guess they don't.