Alpe d'Huez said:To the OP: Spot on +1. The omerta is alive and well. As far as I am concerned, if you don't speak out against doping, and on a case like this, I'm going to assume it's likely you are doping. And I don't mean rip Contador to shreds. I mean simply state if he doped, he should be suspended. But strangely, they are all silent.
Despite what the LA spin machine would have you believe, Greg LeMond doesn't come out of the woodwork on his own to throw stones too often. Perhaps a reporter will contact him and he'll give a response. If he does, I expect it to be critical of Contador and doping, as always. Greg has also said in the past he doesn't talk as much about foreign athletes because he is from the United States and would prefer to concentrate on his own country.
I agree with you regarding omerta, etc. but give me a break about LeMond--the guy works Armstrong into every fricken conversation he has. He's a bitter whiny jackass; he was that way before Armstrong won his first tour--look at the old videos. Or, better yet, read his fricking "blog" on this site in which he actually manages to comment about Lance when the topic of the article he was writing had nothing to do with Lance... Give me a break!!!
Lemond isn't commenting about Contador because Contador's not an American so his winning didn't diminish Greg's 3 victories which could've been more if he hadn't been shot and if he had doped like everyone else. Those are two reasons to be bitter, but he was a whiny bitter jerk before those things happened to him too. The guy's obviously an a$$, I don't get why so many of you guys worship him. He's a tool. A bigger one than even Armstrong, and that's a pretty big tool...