The 500 Tests/Never tested positive lie

[thehog]

Excellent article from the legend that is Dimspace.

http://www.cyclismas.com/2012/09/the-numbers-game/

A few weeks ago I was asked by the BBC to do an interview. They, like many others, had read my article and graphics on “The legend of the 500” and were interested not only in the true figure, but how 500 became such a defining number.

The interview, to date, has not been used. Maybe because just a few days later UCI President Pat McQuaid revealed that the UCI had tested Lance just 215 times. Maybe because on the morning of the interview I had a pretty major panic attack, and being confined in a 6ft by 3ft room with a microphone in front of me and someone in my ears that was 400 miles away didn’t make for a great interview, or maybe, the BBC werent quite ready to stir up the hornets’ nest that is the Lance lies. Maybe they weren’t ready to put their name to a number reached by a fan, a knowledgeable fan, but a fan nonetheless. A number based partly on undeniable evidence, but partly on conclusions of peoples whose names I couldn’t give them, and second-hand reports over the last ten years.

The night before the interview I wrote down some notes. One of the key things they seemed interested in was not just the final number, not how that number was reached, but how and why the famous “500” has been so readily accepted over the years, and where did that number come from.

Before we reach five hundred we have to start at twenty eight.

 

[DominicDecoco]

Aaaaaand we have- ladies and gentlemen - reached 600 tests now.

"Ignoring the 500-600 tests Lance Armstrong passed, ignoring all exculpatory evidence, and trying to justify the millions of dollars USADA has spent pursuing one, single athlete for years, USADA has continued its government funded witch hunt of only Mr. Armstrong, a retired cyclist, in violation of its own rules and due process, in spite of USADA's lack of jurisdiction, in blatant violation of the statute of limitations, and without honoring UCI's demand to produce the entire USADA "file" for an independent review and decision as mandated by national and international rules."

 

[doperhopper]

The official (USADA) version: "Never failed (to get warning before) a test."

Hein&Pat: True story bro.