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

You'll find the part of my post which you quoted first was in response to this: "Nike have no ethics, they have just calculated that today is the day when they can make more money by disowning Armstrong than they can by sponsoring him." I have no problem with them making this decision. This is what they would do with any athlete they sponsor. This is what any sponsor would likely do.

But since you've decided to respond with something out of context: How were the "actively" supporting a cheater? Were they buying his EPO? This is essentially my question. And I think you'll find I was asking for the non-simple answer. But you seem more interested in giving pithy answers, so feel free to just ignore me.

They are accused by Lemond's missus (under oath) of paying Verbruggen half a million dollars to help make his '99 Tour positive eh... become institutionally 'less positive' when a blatantly backdated prescription came along.

Sine then you could argue that Nike have reaped a considerable return on that initial investment and would have continued to do so had be not been caught. So, actively 'supporting' well, if this is true, then yes-they were not only actively supporting but facilitating cheating at the highest level.

Of course, it remains unproven though it seems a bizarre thing for Mrs Lemond to pluck out of thin air when put on the stand, but as history has shown, everyone is out to get Lance out of spite and jealousy and there is never any meat to these rumours.