Recent content by Sandthemall

….about Armstrong: It always starts with lying to yourself first. Do that and the rest comes easy. I was good liar as a kid...but the lies would stack up and I learned the hard way to just come clean at the beginning. But what I learned from it all was how to tell a good liar from a bad one...

In early 1990 Dutch riders were dying in their sleep. This is how we know when EPO hit cycling. ABC news covered this story during the 1990 tour. Teams were dosing too high, blood would thicken and riders died of hear attacks while they slept. Initially teams didn’t know how to use EPO. Under...

Has anyone read Fignon's book? It's a good arguement for why Lemond may never have doped. I believe at this stage Fignon already has cancer and has little to lose. Near the begining of the book he states that he 'never really doped in competition'. This where I started roll my eyes in...

Something to consider... Imagine how Lemond would have performed if he had taken epo...it would have been devastatingly inhuman (a rider of Lemond's caliber!). Instead, we have Lemond's performance getting noticeabley worse after his '89 victory: didn't win a single stage in '90. Barely hung on...