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

Yet elsewhere is the suggestion that Nike was actively complicit in his doping, or at least in covering it up.

Cycling: Nike deny $500,000 Lance Armstrong cover-up payment

"In response to the offensive allegations in today's New York Daily News, Nike vehemently denies that it paid former UCI president Hein Verbruggen $500,000 to cover up a positive drug test," the statement read. "Nike does not condone the use of illegal performance enhancing drugs."

(The NY Daily News article.)