Lance Armstrong... greatest doper there was or ever will be

Where to start?

Been thinking about this, quite a bit. IMHO, let's go down the road, that Lances' vitamin pills were a little more than that...

The purpose of drug-testing is..?

Therefore, if he has been on the gear, then ALL those tests, have proved in-effective.

The times have been shown, time and time again, to be ineffective. There was no test for EPO until the Sydney Olympics in 2000. There is still no test to detect when someone has transfused some of their own blood (which is alleged to be Armstrong's doping method). Most big name riders who've been busted, such as Basso, Ullrich, Virenque, Zuelle, et al, have been caught by criminal justice investigations.

There is no doubt at all he has been tested frequently, regardless on which side of the fence your sitting.

If he did dope, then he did his job... unlike all those, involved with deciding the protocol for testing.

In 2000 he beat Ulrich, and Pantani, was it possible either / both of them were on the gear too..? hmmn... maybe...

Armstrong was tested a lot, but not as often as he claims, i.e. he was never the most tested athlete on the planet. The USADA publish an annual list of tests and Armstrong rarely figured in the top 100.

Ullrich was caught up in Operacion Puerto and rode for Team Telekom, who it is known ran a team doping programme out of Freiburg University. Matt Rendell's excellent book on Pantani details evidence that he doped throughout his career.

Lanceypoo, just has massive lungs, eats lactic acid for breakfast... probably on or off the stuff he is quite physiologically blessed.

Without the weight loss from cancer doubtful he ever would have been able to climb so well.

Armstrong is a good athlete but he's not exceptional in the way Greg Lemond was.

The weight loss from cancer is a myth. Read up on it here;

http://nyvelocity.com/content/interviews/2009/michael-ashenden