Lance versus Skippy

lance's comback also benefits pro cycling which has lost sponsors & reputation (even if he's a doper) because of his global profile - a bit like beckham

You what? Professional cycling has lost sponsors and reputation because of doping scandals. Getting rid of the tainted old guard (Armstrong, Hamilton, Basso, Landis, Rasmussen et al) is what the sport needs, not watching them trying to recapture former glories.

@woolif, easy lad. A number of newspapers and others have rued the day they accused Lance without having the evidence. Innocent 'till proven guilty is still the way.

Has anybody found the tour down under showing online? I'd like to see highlights if I can, but I don't have sky.

I've also found that *'Its not about the bike', *Lance Armstrong, is available at a load of libraries and there are quite a lot of copies about. So if anyone is inerested then it's there for free.

I think www.cyclingnews.com has online video highlights of the TDU. Some Aussie druggie won. ;p

The LA weight loss is such a load of bull. He claimed to be 20lb lighter than his WC winning year, even though it clearly shows his racing weight has remained pretty much the same. We're not comparing his Triathalon days to his weight while he was in Chemo. Irrespective of his power to weight ratio, pushing 460+ Watts on the high mountain passes after 5 hours of riding is just not naturally possible on his published V02 Max of 82. We saw what Pantani was able to do in 1998 when his hemocrit was at 60%

It also doesn't explain how his first 3 TDF time trials were 6 minutes down on Indurain going flat out, finishing around 35th place, whilst 6 years later he's top dog, even surpassing Indurain's average speed (49+kph). Bearing in mind Big Mig and his Banesto posse were juiced up as well.

Yous all read LA Confidentiel if you get the chance!

Fraud!!

Lurker, There's no online feed for the TDU unfortunately. Cycling Fans had a feed from Versus in the US but that was only for the last stage. Eurosport does the highlights show which is usually enough.

As for Davis, dirty by association I say. Hard to proclaim someone's clean if they came through the ONCE-Liberty Seguros system and Manolo Saiz.