so Armstrong thinks that this evidence has got him nailed and fears losing in court yet nobody is taking him to court? people are afraid of taking him to court because it's just their word against his and now there is supposed water tight evidence nobody is doing anything against the worlds biggest sporting conman?
**I don't know how you missed my point so here it is again; when L'Equipe published the results of the 99 tests, under the headline "Armstrong's Lies", he did not sue. He had previously sued many people when it was his word against their's rather than his word against the validity of an EPO test.
It is not certain yet that no legal action will result from Landis' allegations.
And Armstrong's legal battle with LeMond ended out of court recently with a large payment being made to LeMond's charity. A court case would have hinged on the very evidence that you and Armstrong say is so weak/non-existent.
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I imagine that if anyone had a loved one or friend who had cancer, was visited by Armstrong or money from his foundation was used to help them and they then recovered from cancer and chose to attribute those actions towards their survival and then found out Armstrong was doping they wouldn't give a flying toss and neither would the person who survived cancer. Neither of us know that one way or the other. I didn't speculate on that, I just pointed out that he lies to the people he says he cares about.
fact - armstrong has helped more people with cancer than anyone on this forum and that's by a million miles. No doubt that is true;** since none of us are multi millionaire sportsmen with a charitable foundation it is hardly surprising. But he is not the only philanthropist in the world. Better for sure that he uses his fame for some good but that is neither here nor there when it comes to whether or not he doped.**
if the evidence is there all of those institutions you listed will drop him like a ton of bricks. Why would Trek or Nike drop him until he is sanctioned for doping; which none of us are claiming he has been. Until then they will carry on making millions from him and, like his fans, pretend that the damning evidence against him does not exist
ok, let's say armstrong doped and he did it to win races to raise his profile and raise money for cancer and become stonkingly rich. your question...does that make doping ok? well if he looked at the peleton in 1999 and saw it was riddled with doping cheats and that the only way to achieve said agenda was to dope....you answer your own question. (it's all hypothetical though) Not hypothetical; it's clearly a choice many riders faced. Some, very few, but they exist, chose to race clean. So maybe that also answers the question
all this anti armstrong stuff just smacks of moralising and the usual conspiracy theorists you find on the net. for all the things you read from people that say armstrong was a bully etc you read things that say what a great guy he is. I reckon that could be said for each and everyone of us. I suspect that there are many personal motives for people to hate armstrong on here that have more to do with peoples own lives than armstrong.
**Give over; it is clear that your liking of Armstrong and dislike of LeMond has a lot to do with your view of what a 'man' should be. Don't talk about Alpha males and then suggest that every one else has some kind of hidden psychological agenda. If you want to have a man-crush on the great fraud that is fine; it has nothing to do with the reams of documented evidence which show Armstrong cheated. **
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