An interesting interview here:
http://www.cyclingnews.com/features...-cycling-lance-armstrong-and-his-own-fan-days
I am glad that he owns up to the fact that he too was guilty of "fan with typewriter" in his early career since he seems to condemn everyone else with that label.
The interview highlights the problem with mixed standards and selective injustice and withchunts - which is the hindsight justifications for treating some well and others badly, lead to statements that would be hilarious if it was not quite so serious.
Take this - he sums in one quote about the relative sanctions for some key riders with this howler.
"The other guys didn’t test positive so of course they deserve leniency"
Wake up call Mr Walsh. Lance did not test positive either! The crime is doping, not being bad at cheating controls.
His other howler - That vital team members spoke to USADA voluntarily. Complete tosh and nonsense. Once forced to testify at the grand jury, the ones who were competing had little choice to "own up" to USADA too, knowing it was only a matter of time before leaks or hearings made it all public, so in the usual self serving way they took the way out that worked for them best - the sweetheart deal. They confessed as little as possible as late as possible long after most of it was in the public domain anyway.
I am all for clemency for those who confess before they are forced by circumstance - indeed - if it can be reasonably stated that they would not have been discovered imminently,A pardon might be justifiable as part of truth and reconciliation (no different from a winter ban) to get them to come forward volunatarily from all the other teams who were doing exactly the same or similar..
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But I do not see that in the cases in which it has so far been applied.
Notice Hamilton - the main informant - has not had his sanctions reduced for his efforts.
http://www.cyclingnews.com/features...-cycling-lance-armstrong-and-his-own-fan-days
I am glad that he owns up to the fact that he too was guilty of "fan with typewriter" in his early career since he seems to condemn everyone else with that label.
The interview highlights the problem with mixed standards and selective injustice and withchunts - which is the hindsight justifications for treating some well and others badly, lead to statements that would be hilarious if it was not quite so serious.
Take this - he sums in one quote about the relative sanctions for some key riders with this howler.
"The other guys didn’t test positive so of course they deserve leniency"
Wake up call Mr Walsh. Lance did not test positive either! The crime is doping, not being bad at cheating controls.
His other howler - That vital team members spoke to USADA voluntarily. Complete tosh and nonsense. Once forced to testify at the grand jury, the ones who were competing had little choice to "own up" to USADA too, knowing it was only a matter of time before leaks or hearings made it all public, so in the usual self serving way they took the way out that worked for them best - the sweetheart deal. They confessed as little as possible as late as possible long after most of it was in the public domain anyway.
I am all for clemency for those who confess before they are forced by circumstance - indeed - if it can be reasonably stated that they would not have been discovered imminently,A pardon might be justifiable as part of truth and reconciliation (no different from a winter ban) to get them to come forward volunatarily from all the other teams who were doing exactly the same or similar..
.
But I do not see that in the cases in which it has so far been applied.
Notice Hamilton - the main informant - has not had his sanctions reduced for his efforts.
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