gree0232 said:
No e it didn't.
I will say very clearly, the suspicions surrounding DiLuca did not convict him. The positive dope test did.
If the suspicions surrounding him convicted him, he never would have raced this years Giro.
For the record, there are also suspicions, from Greg LeMond no less, that indicate Alberto Contador doped during this year's Tour? Is he guilty now?
Menchov beat a doped DiLuca, such things clearly raise suspicions. Is Menchov guilty?
Levi Leipheimer also used Dr. Ferrari. That raises suspicion, is Levi Leipheimer guilty?
To be very clear, again, suspicion is used to target and provide a verifiable, testable result. That is what happened to DiLuca.
The Anti-doping establishment had ther suspicions about bith what he was using, thus they found and appropriate test, and when he was using it, and THAT allowed them to test and verify the drug use.
Now, when similar suspicion is likewise tested, and no proof is found, that is also exoneration.
Unfortunately, our press only releases those who fail the process, but to assume that there has been no targeting of LA would be in my opinion, a very bad assumption.
Firstly, nearly everyone on this forum has strong suspicions about all the riders you mentioned for the same reasons you mentioned and more. You are deluded if the majority of us think otherwise.
Secondly, most of us are comfortable in believing some or all of these riders are guilty based on this preponderance of evidence. We don't require a positive test or a guilty verdict to tell us a certain rider is guilty, because this only confirms our suspicions. You obviously do - and that's OK if you're comfortable with the knowledge that you cannot think for yourself and just believe what you are told.
The I've never tested positive argument is stupid, and is certainly no exoneration from doping. Armstrong is direct proof that that argument is bogus. hCG is on the banned list, the normal hCG level in an adult male is < 0.5, and Armstrong's hCG level at the time of his cancer diagnosis was 109,000 (hCG is a marker for testicular cancer)! Armstrong was tested multiple times before his cancer diagnosis and never tested positive for hCG despite his levels being through the roof. Carl Lewis tested positive three times in the 1988 Olympic trials, along with 19 other American athletes, and none of these positives ever saw the light of day until released by a drug official in 2003 or 2004. So don't tell me that because Armstrong has never tested positive that he is exonerated from all allegations, because that is just a BS argument. Moreover, look at how many riders (and other athletes) have been doping for years and were not caught by doping tests. Nearly every high level cyclist has been caught by either an exposure (Festina, Operation Puerto, BALCO, etc) or a surprise test for a new EPO (such as CERA). HGH and autologous blood transfusions remain undetectable. Indirect signs of doping, which the biological passport system is aimed at, has not detected doping in riders like Kohl, Rebellin, Schumacher, etc. So, again, not testing positive is not an exoneration. Far from it.
And to answer your last question, of course Armstrong has been targeted. The UCI said they would target 50 riders before the TdF. And Armstrong should be on that list considering his very suspect history.
As I have said before, there are people who will analyze and process the information and come to an opinion based on the weight of the evidence. Then there are people like you, who despite saying you have read all the evidence, still believe that this evidence doesn't matter because some external body has not told you he has tested positive. You can live in your CNN world, you're welcome to it.
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