delleErbe said:
Oh good Aleajactaest, you're back. This is a quote from what you wrote earlier in the thread about the Travis Tygart interview. I asked previously about this but you didn't give a response. Here's another chance.
Why did you claim Travis Tygart said that?
Please explain because 1.) there is nothing in the transcript to support that and 2.) Tygart has repeatedly said elsewhere he knows that doping was prevalent in the sport.
My quote is not exact. He basically said that when Lance said he doped to get on a level playing field that he was wrong. He was on a higher plane. Only later did he explain that he knew they were doping but that Lance had access to other things beside just drugs. e.g. he claims that Lance had advanced knowledge of how to beat tests.
I think everyone else could have had more access they just weren't smart enough to do it. I think basically they're ****ed not that he cheated but that he was better/smarter at doing it than others.
I don't buy the he had more money argument cause that is just the nature of sport. Are the Yankees cheating cause they have a higher payroll?
My point is that if TT wants to clean up future sport, his approach is less effective than one that encourages an open and frank discussion of how it worked in the past with an eye towards improving the future. e.g. a Truth an Reconciliation effort.
Ironically, he said in his rebuttal interview that he wanted to prove that Lance Armstrong was not too big to fail and yet our government gave the Banks a multi trillion dollar pass on the basis that they and the auto makers were indeed to big to fail.
If he wants to clean up the sport, what better source that his self professed "best doper ever"?