Recent content by fepate

They must be mistaken because all the current riders swear up and down that things have changed since 2006 and the majority of them are off the dope.

Everything else you wrote is very interesting and well reasoned. The bit above, however seems way too simplified. Right and wrong are not so easy. It varies from person to person. Environment plays a big role. As does emotional state. You also mentioned health implications. That is relative...

But the issue is that adults are always doing things they know are wrong. And they talk themselves into thinking its an acceptable wrong even though they "should know better" whatever that means. Let's take another example: road speed limits. I haven't met anyone that doesn't routinely break the...

You're looking at it from the wrong point of view. A lot of people may disagree, but I believe that morality is relative. For example, a soldier in a war zone has a different sense of right and wrong compared to when he is with his family safe at home in a first-world industrialized country...

No, I was being silly and taking JV's mention of hypoxia some sort of hint.

That's it! Garmin don't use synthetic EPO, they hold their breath between rides. Are nose plugs on the WADA list?

That's my feeling as well. All this talk that "real" GT contenders do really well on their first try misses the point that the others were either pre-EPO or were already fully doped up during their first GT. Lance, it seems likely, wasn't fully doped up and healthy at a GT until 1998 when he did...

That was one team. Do you think it was the same at Telekom, Once, Mercatone Uno, Banesto, etc...? Already by 1998? How did he manage to do that? Putting these together, though, is the theory that everyone else's doping programs got weaker until LA got Ferrari exclusivity and the UCI in his...

Okay, then wouldn't a reasonable interpretation of events be: 1) Armstrong's doping program was below par before some time during 1995, so all results prior to that date show what he could do when he was at a disadvantage compared to his competition. 2) During 1996 he had some good results in...

But he was on PEDs both before and after cancer. With Ferrari pulling the strings the whole time. So you're saying that the PED cocktail got significantly more effective between 1996 and the fall of 1998? Or did every other rider's PED cocktail get weaker?