The mystery of Lances lost body weight

Originally Posted by limerickman

Because it's revisionist, that's why.

The defence of "well he has never failed a test" has little or no credibility.
David Millar, Richard Virenque, Johan Musseuw, never failed tests either.

LA was a great one day rider before his cancer - his career trajectory at that point indicated to me that he ought to have gone on to be a one day winner or 5-10 stage race winner.
Period.

There was no indication - absolutely zero indication that he had any real prospect of ever winning one TDF, never mind 7 T'sDF.

It is as Miguel Indurain said in Graham Watson's tribute book to LA "Images of a Champion", that "no one considered LA of being capable of winning one TDF, never mind 5 T'sDF (as it was at the time)".

Something changed.

File LA under the same category as Flo-Jo.
We can't deny that they both won - but their performances lack trust and credibility.