Oldman said:Go to this story to find out how it works. It takes a village to pull it off.
http://www.sfweekly.com/2005-09-07/news/tour-de-farce/full
Then I suggest you read the Virjman Report, the kind of independant examination that many are demanding go into Floyd's claims. And yet when this report was conducted and its findings released, they are flawed?
Why is that bashers always mention the one without the other.
And lets be clear how this whole thing works, as I have also been part of an anti-doping program in my own profession.
The dope test is the test.
A positive test is the proof. You test positive, you are guilty.
The only way you get out of it is to show that the test was improperly administered, or that the prescence of teh substance was accidental and unintentional.
The Virjman Report makes it very clear that the 1999 tests were conducted well outside established parameters. That means that are effectively not positives ACCORDING TO ESTABLISHED STANDARDS.
Again, we do not change standards simply because we do not like someone they apply to.
The same standard applied to Floyd. He went out to prove that the standard was not met and he failed. When he failed, he was stripped of his Tour victory.
Had proper standards been followed on Lance's samples, he to would have been found guilty - it didn't and therefor he isn't.
THAT is how the system works.
And remember, please ask yourself how it is that Lance is able to singularly beat the system? Is he a founding member of MENSA? Just smarter than the entire system and every other rider out there? Or, have the various agencies that have gone after Lance failed to produce convicing evidence of his doping?
Lance still rides.