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I thought it was a good article. It's almost always valuable to hear comments from people who "were there." whether or not one chooses to believe everything as gospel. I agree with zig about HcT, though, that one point by Millar was unnecessarily inflammatory. Mine is sometimes over 45 as...

I don't disagree that there is some pressure mounting, but how much dollars does SKINS put into ProTour and Continental teams and races? I'm asking because I don't know the answer, and that's what would determine if this really constitutes additional pressure on the UCI.

I don't have any evidence, but the use of a new drug that increased oxygen carrying capacity first came to my attention in spring 1989. I heard about it from other distance runners, who claimed that some European runners attending U.S. universities had recently started using it. At that time, I...

DONT. FEED. THE. TROLL. :p

I think you'll be fine. Pinarellos were spectacular long before USPS 2.0 came along, and they will be afterwards as well :)

It's great that Nike's dropping him. They clearly cannot be associated with him. It also suggests that any payoffs from them that occurred back in 1999 were at enough of an arm's length that they can maintain deniability. That said, I feel a certain disappointment, because of course Nike...

Now this I can agree with. . .

Not disagreeing with the rest of your post, but I'd take issue with the bolded assertion. I would be absolutely shocked if doping is not as rampant or more rampant in the major American sports, where the testing is a pale shadow of cycling's regimen which we know to be inadequate. Having been...

Yep. By definition the blood passport accomplishes this. It has the side effect of reducing the number of positives also. I don't think these are bad things, but they merely change the nature or the doping, not eliminate it. As for Ryder, I don't necessarily think that a plateau in these...

And think about it, they could tie it into Garmin Connect and have challenges to see how long the rest of us could keep up with the wattage the pros keep up for an hour, stuff like that. That said, I confess to being a fan of JV. Do I think most top riders in cycling, on all teams, are still...

When was it that sports were not about money? When they founded the modern Olympics on the sham that only amateurs were true sportsmen, hiding the real intention of not having blue bloods lose to the talented poor who competed for a living? When multi-day pedestrian events died out because the...

Tell you what, I think this is a great thread because there are so many different ways this plays out. I'll go out on a limb and say they appeal. That's the only remote chance they have to short-circuit the process of everything coming out. It's a long shot and might actually make things...

Exactly right. There is zero doubt in my mind that the level of doping and probably the number of individuals doping is lower than it was by a not inconsequential margin. The blood passport (which only came about because of high profile positive after high profile positive) is one of the main...

"Witch hunt"? "fair" What exactly was USADA supposed to do if they had large amounts of evidence (which currently we don't "know" for certain aside from their own claim)? Not move forward? If Lance doped, this is the furthest thing from a witch hunt. If he doped, it's case of him...

It strikes me that this all boils down to two possibilities. One is that USADA has strong evidence that Lance doped. They other is that they don't. If they have such evidence then they needed to bring a case, which they did. I'll grant that there is some procedural doubt based on WADA coming...