Talk:Lance Armstrong disputes French doping results

This whole sport business is a shame.

If Armstrong has taken drugs, the truth have to be revealed, no matter what ammount of money is spent for him, and this is not this stupid anti-french theories or all this political pression that will help the truth to be revealed...

Thruth is truth and it's a shame that some financial and nationalist interests may deceive the truth!

Sport as a business is a shame for the true sport spirit: it will soon be a normal assumption to claim that practicing high level sport leads to taking drugs and seriously damage your health -- up to a cancer??

Modern sport is no longer an exemple for our kids, and I hope my children will not taken a sport professional as their idol.

I agree with the contributor above. Palmeiro's finger wagging denial(accompanied by Bush's "I believe Palmeiro") keeps popping into my head with this ongoing bicycle soap opera. It's all about money and cheating and that's all its about (professional sports). Paulrevere2005 13:47, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

Good story but I can't find in the sources where Lance actually said they faked it. Will someone please provide a reference for that on this page? Paulrevere2005 13:47, 28 August 2005 (UTC)


 * Not sure, but if you can't find a source, I know he said it on CNN's Larry King Live a few nights ago (Thurs. night, I believe). But remember, the drug does have a legitimate use: it is used for many cancer patients.  --Mrmiscellanious 14:59, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

Lance Armstrong's urine manipulation charges against the French testers and testing system are in the source 'CNN Larry King Live "Lance Armstrong interview about L'Equipe doping claims." CNN cable TV, August 25, 2005 ' http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0508/25/lkl.01.html  LANCE ARMSTRONG to LARRY KING and BOB COSTAS: ''"What was manipulated was the urine. What was put in the urine? Who was there when -- I don't think the papers were manipulated." ''"that's the whole point, is whoever collects such a critical specimen has to be reliable, and nobody would have trusted our person, just the same way we don't trust theirs." ''"Do you think I'm going to trust some guy in a French lab to open my samples and say they're positive and announce that to the world and not give me the chance to defend myself?" ''"a guy in a French -- in a Parisian laboratory opens up your sample, you know, Jean-Francis so and so, and he tests it. Nobody's there to observe. No protocol was followed. And then you get a phone call from a newspaper that says we found you to be positive six times for EPO." "Who opened the samples? What protocol was followed? Nothing. It was all thrown out the door. We cannot build a system of faith and trust in an anti-doping fight if we don't have faith in it. There's no way. If I'm an athlete, if I'm active today, which I'm not, thank goodness, I don't trust that system." Milomedes 15:14, 28 August 2005 (UTC)


 * Ok; Thank you very much. I will change the headline back. Paulrevere2005 16:56, 28 August 2005 (UTC)