Millar Speaks on Doping - Armstrong

wheresullrich?

I support armstrong but since lance himself says millar is his friend in his book i doubt millar would ditch lance in it. you dont normally do that to your mates do you?

zaskar

IMO i don't care who is doping and who isn't, it doesn't hurt me or my family. Does it hurt or bother any of you, and why?

JohnO

We can also look to the case of another reformed (I hope) doper, Richard Virenque.

Assuming he's clean now, and he'd be a fool to try that twice, the absence of doping does not seem to have measurably affected his performance. So Millar's assertion that doping does not have that great an effect does seem to ring true.

gntlmn

Maybe they were so afraid to ask anyone instructions on how to dope properly for fear of discovery that they just didn't know quite what they were doing.

HellonWheels

[QUOTE=mojomarc]Ah, I think you're right. He did seem to backtrack, didn't he?

As far as his statement about Armstrong, I think he's right to the extent that you can't explain Armstrong's dominance by drugs. >>>>


I agree. What drives Lance is his determinatin to prove that cancer survivors CAN win a race like the TdF not once, but six times. I KNOW and UNDERSTAND how he feels because I went thru a very similar thing in my own life....ppl telling me "you can't" do this or that, when all that does is drive me to prove I CAN. In 1995 to 1997 I went thru a medical catastrophe that everyone warned me to quit trying. I didnt listen and I "won"...I had a healthy baby after four late term losses that doctors couldnt explain. Why did I keep trying? Ask Lance why he kept trying to win the TdF and you have the same answer for me. To PROVE it CAN be done.

To accuse Lance of doping is bullshit....I am currently arguing with a stupid-ass woman on another forum (diet related) who claims Lance is doping even though he tests clean. I saw thru her, and said, No, what REALLY galls you is that he won the most strenuous athletic event in the world not once but six times, using a diet YOU regard as dangerous and unhealthy (high carb) (this woman is an Atkins nut.)

Its REALLY insulting to someone like Lance, who (unlike other racers) trains YEARROUND for the TdF, sleeps in an altitude tent to naturally improve his oxygenation, who has a freakishly huge lung capacity (as tested by the Cooper Aerobics Ctr in TX), to have all his HARD WORK dismissed as "doping". I can relate because I lost a lot of weight over the last few years through HARD WORK (eating right and exercising), and to have some ppl ask me, "Gee, how did you do it, did you get that stomach surgery?" Thats is SO insulting! As if they are saying (as the false accusers do to Lance), all the hard work you did means zilch, you probably did it the easy way!


Sorry just needed to vent, both due to the charges against Lance and my own situation.

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