karlboss said:
I'll take Vino over Lance. Unrepentant for sure, but I don't believe he sued anyone for saying he's a doper, nor took any other form of action, correct me if I'm wrong. I'm not expecting a confession and if he does, it won't contain an apology.
this has been said b4 and i'm hardly breaking any new ground here...
yes, vino likes attention and is a showman but, unlike armstrong, he has demonstrated a clear respect of red lines, the limits of humanly allowable, doping or not...
let's take some well documented examples...
- at some point vino and kash became enemies. it's a fact, yet vino worked with him both as a teammate and as a manager because the bigger picture of his country's interests was at stake...
- vino is no stranger to getting elevated attention from the better half of the human race. yet, i challenge anyone to find a juicy story about him being anything but a solid family man and a caring father to his 3 kids.
- a doping admission...it may surprise many, but vino actually admitted his doping in a legal setting (granted, not in public) long time ago when he won his case in cas against the uci's demand for paying doping fines.
vino is no saint, he certainly cheated and doped, but he's light years away from the unceremonious, unscrupulous arrogant criminal from texas who never cared about anyone but himself.