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Yeah Sylvia Schenk exposed that during the summer of 2005. Under the UCI Constitution, no member of the management committee could also have a salaried contract. Pat was double-dipping. Of course the UCI Ethics Commission absolved McBruggen of any wrongdoing and even had the nerve to fine Schenk...

And Lemond is going to be on Cooper's show Wednesday talking about Lance.

The WC road race proved one thing - that neither Nibali, Rodriguez nor Valverde were knackered after a long season. Not only did Horner win a GT at almost 42 years of age, he beat three of the top stage racers in the world, all of whom were still strong enough to finish top 4 in the WC. I've...

Yeah it's the tired BS about how doping only helps the mentally weak. Canova says: "Stop to believe blood doping can enhance the performances of the top athletes of long distances. It can work for athletes born and living at sea level, and only as shortcut, but with proper and tough...

I know. It's so sad that Chris has been cheated out of the other 44 GT titles since 1998. Oh, if only the biopassport had been implemented after the Festina Tour...what might have been.

Out of the saddle.

My guess is he felt incredible at the base of the climb so he went (shades of Armstrong and Chechu) and thought he could blast the 10k+ to the top but got foiled by the food bonk.

The last time I remember seeing a race leader look that fresh after a very tough GT stage was Contador when he won on top of the Angliru in 2008.

Good summary by ESPN's legal guy, Lester Munson: http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/8975718/department-justice-intervention-floyd-landis-lawsuit-bad-sign-lance-armstrong Recognizing that the confessions Armstrong made to Winfrey could lead to a second look at criminal charges, the...

It's amazing how so many footballers are miraculously able to keep muscle mass throughout the grueling AFL season.

Seems to me that this may be Lance's ultimate dream: - Do Oprah and following interviews, work himself back in the public's good graces again by showing what a flawed human he is. - Become Mr. Livestrong again. - Win Ironman Hawaii or even somehow make the 2016 Olympic triathlon team...

He's really coming out of this looking like a creep, and a not very repentant one. Give Oprah credit for that. Having a woman do the interview was a bad move on his part.

It just seems too perfunctory. He's not giving off anything close to the genuine truth-will-set-you-free emotion that Tyler has. There's no sense of him sincerely unburdening himself.

Minimize, rationalize, lie...repeat ad nauseum.

In case you don't know, I was paraphrasing. He said now he thinks of the clean riders as heros, but even when he was riding he didn't view them negatively.