Washington Post
US Anti-Doping Agency brings charges against Lance Armstrong:
Armstrong, who forcefully denied the accusations, could face a lifetime ban from the sport if he is found to have used performance-enhancing drugs. The move by USADA immediately bans him from competing in triathlons, which he turned to after he retired from cycling last year.
Lance; you might as well come clean and don’t get “lanced” the way the rest of the “deniers of the druging” did. Eventually the truth will come out and you will look like a bigger fool than you already do.
The following are a list of the top 10 athletics that eventually got caught shooting up with performance enhancing drugs. Some of them admitted their error in judgment up front and others didn’t but in the end they paid dearly for their indiscretions.
Shawne Merriman, NFL, San Diego Chargers
Jose Canseco, MLB
Rafael Palmeiro, MLB
Ben Johnson, Canadian Olympic Sprinter
Floyd Landis, American Cyclist
Kostas Kenteris & Ekaterini Thanou, Greek Olympians
Barry Bonds, MLB
Alex Rodriguez, MLB
Marion Jones, U.S. Olympian
Roger Clemens, MLB
In a certain respect who can really blame these people for putting that rubber band around their arms when many other people around them were doing the same thing? The problem was; for the most part the big names were the ones that were gone after. I think that they were all nuts knowing the long range side-effect to doping.
One lie adds to two lies and on and on. It is much better to bite the bullet from the beginning and take your lumps. I always said “a bull-shitter has to have a good memory”.
One thing that always puzzled me about all of these investigations? Why is it that Congress always getting involved in areas that are not politically connected?
What business is it of theirs if Joe Blow athlete shoots up before a game”? Don’t they have bigger and more important things to do in their capacities like; passing budgets, getting the country out of debt, trying to create jobs for all of the unemployed, encouraging the prez to get out of these wars that we are in instead of worrying if an athlete crossed the line.