Exroadman24902 said:
They are from the same era not different eras. They won 4 years apart at TDF and raced a lot together.
Re your respect for Indurain comments, I agree that Mig was a really nice chap but it is not relevant.
And Indurain's people made a + go away in 1994. Thomas Davy is Indurain's Floyd Landis. Indurain weighed far too much to climb as he did and scored crazy victory margins in some TTs which are impossible. The evidence against Indurain is as strong as against Armstrong.
Re Indurain's stuff being 15 to 20 years ago-as you mention. The "its so many years ago forget it" argument is one Armstrong's legal team use.
Lance is more current, but it may well be that they both benefited from the same prep so both or neither should be held to account
Your whole premise is that Indurain had a train at Banesto like Lance did at US Postal. You seem to have forgotten that now in favour of other things which seems to be the notion that Lance is no worse than anybody else.
As I said and you convenitently ignored, the dislike for Lance has as much to do with his personality as it has to do with his doping. That is human nature.
You dont want it that way but that is the way things are in life. Lance built his brand on his personality and cancer as much as on his achievements and thus that is how he will be judged.
For example if two bank robbers get away with a big heist, one goes away to live a quiet life with his family unheard of whilst the other is constanlty in the news acting arrogantly, bigging themselves up, bullying others and taunting the media and the authorities, which one do you think people will want to see taken down?
The other thing is this, owing to the climate of the times, there was never any suspicions swirling around Indurain whilst there was around Lance from day one. Most people had figured out long before he won 7 Tours that Lance was doped to the gills. That wasnt the case with Indurain becasue the questioning culture didnt exist then. Its harder to take watching someone do a crime and know they are getting away with it than being knowledgable about the crime long after it happened.
If Indurain had happened post Festina, there would have been a lot more scrutiny on him too and all his rivals got away with the same things as Indurain. Most of Lance's rivals have been booted from the sport at some stage. There is definitely a mentality that pre-Festina, they all got away with it so let them have their laurels, what happened pre Festina stays pre Festina. That is why I say they are different era's in attitudes towards doping.
At the end of the day, Lance's crimes were more than just doping and therfore he should be judged and punished accordingly.
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