- Jan 27, 2010
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Has anyone seen the movie "Blood, Sweat and Gears" and seen the part where CVV highlights how Lance lied about CVV's Lactate levels.
In the movie there is an interview with CVV and he's talking about his early days at Postal. Just before one of the TdFs the Postal team, doctors and JB/LA are trying to figure out who should make the TdF team. They setup a 10Km Anaerobic/lactate test and tally up all of the riders levels. LA's was listed as the lowest (best) and the other's values ascended respectively.
As CVV explains in the movie his level was above LA's and so he thought I'll never beat or be in the same league as LA. I guess he thought at that point he'd be a domestique forever. Later when he was with CSC he learned that his Lactate (a reproducible value) was lower than reported at Postal. CVV confronted LA and the Doctors and they told him years later that Lance wanted to be the alpha team leader and 'doctored' the values to ensure that. CVV laughs on the video and actually compliments LA for his craftiness.
My question is: does CVV have a legal case that LA bullied or impaired his ability to achieve the success and monetary rewards by lying to CVV about his values? Maybe directly or indirectly, maybe LA/JB told other DSs that CVV doesn't have the biology to be a team leader when physiologically he's actually better positioned than LA a 7 times TdF winner. Or is this just another negative ethical scenario surrounding Lance?
NW
In the movie there is an interview with CVV and he's talking about his early days at Postal. Just before one of the TdFs the Postal team, doctors and JB/LA are trying to figure out who should make the TdF team. They setup a 10Km Anaerobic/lactate test and tally up all of the riders levels. LA's was listed as the lowest (best) and the other's values ascended respectively.
As CVV explains in the movie his level was above LA's and so he thought I'll never beat or be in the same league as LA. I guess he thought at that point he'd be a domestique forever. Later when he was with CSC he learned that his Lactate (a reproducible value) was lower than reported at Postal. CVV confronted LA and the Doctors and they told him years later that Lance wanted to be the alpha team leader and 'doctored' the values to ensure that. CVV laughs on the video and actually compliments LA for his craftiness.
My question is: does CVV have a legal case that LA bullied or impaired his ability to achieve the success and monetary rewards by lying to CVV about his values? Maybe directly or indirectly, maybe LA/JB told other DSs that CVV doesn't have the biology to be a team leader when physiologically he's actually better positioned than LA a 7 times TdF winner. Or is this just another negative ethical scenario surrounding Lance?
NW