Lance Armstrong Doping: Comedy of Errors

Stupid race predictions based upon irrational thought processes result in lost wages and a boon for the casinos.  Cadel Evans, the iron horse, cracked on the col and had to be paced to the finish by his teammate Tejay van Garderen.  Meanwhile, Bradley Wiggins and his Team Sky teammate, Christopher Froome, are one two in the overall general classification.  Already, even before the finish of the race, the haters and doubters have emerged, accusing Bradley Wiggins and Team Sky of being the "British" U.S. Postal Service Professional Cycling Team.

Of course, Bradley Wiggins, in a profanity-laced tirade, blamed the press for inventing doping allegations, citing his numerous passed drug tests and his hard work.  Big deal.  Lance Armstrong used the same argument.  Lance Armstrong cited his perfect test results and his hard work ethic to explain his phenomenal seven-year reign, all to no avail, as the USADA has contrived an outrageous conspiracy theory based not upon science, but upon the testimony of convicted dope fiends and proven, liars.

Goes with the territory.  You win a Tour de France and immediately everyone questions your integrity.

3 Associates of Lance Armstrong Receive Bans.

Juliet Macur, the correspondent of the New York Times, is a very responsible journalist, but whatever happened to the one-dollar newspaper?  Luis Garcia del Moral, team doctor, USPS, and Michele Ferrari, also euphemistically known as doctor blood, banned.  Pepi Marti, USPS trainer, banned.  These people did not respond to the USADA charging letter and were subsequently banned for life from Olympic competition and cycling.
Without a hearing or a trial either, but who among USADA cares about due process?

As the deadline approached for Lance Armstrong to decide to accept the USADA charges or march to an arbitration hearing, Lance Armstrong filed a lawsuit against the USADA.  The filing contains an incredible amount of outrageous charges against the USADA, that is phrased as a lampoon, in the most hilarious style, which will elicit uncontrollable laughter and streams of tears from your eyes, dear reader.  But U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks failed to appreciate the humor.  In a stinging dismissal Judge Sparks accused Lance Armstrong not only of improper format, but even worse, of "vilification of Defendants."  Judge Sparks did not dismiss the case on the merits of the legal arguments and invited Lance Armstrong to re-submit his argument within twenty days minus the breach of etiquette.  Immediately, Lance Armstrong filed a version with a much more serious tone.  USADA then gave Lance Armstrong a thirty-day extension to respond to the charging letter in consideration of an expected ruling by Judge Sparks.

But this is certainly not the end of the affair.  Representative James Sensenbrenner is questioning why United States taxpayers are funding USADA.

Here are the blood values for Herr Armstrong.  Are they conclusive proof of blood doping and rEPO use as alleged by USADA?  You make the call.

Conclusion:

Here a tantalizing snippet to consider.   Travis Tygart claims he has "overwhelming evidence" to support his claims.  Lance Armstrong was flying under the radar.  The science was junk, the tests meaningless.  All due to the sophisticated masking techniques employed by Michele Ferrari.  Alas, these arguments do have some merit.  Let us examine the olive oil/testosterone concoction allegedly developed by Michele Ferrari.  This is a very basic and simple method of administering drugs to patients, a muscle depot injection.  With muscle depot injections the drug is absorbed into the muscle making the drug very long-lasting and slow to metabolize. If the bladder was flushed out with multiple water bottles during a very difficult or hot stage, this could prevent a testosterone "spike," and without a "spike" above 4:1 there is no need to conduct a carbon isotope ratio test.  Thus it is possible to fly below the radar.  But not for fourteen years of team doping with multiple performance-enhancing substances.  Not for fifty-six riders on seven Tour de France championship teams, none of whom ever tested positive.  No.  If based on the science and the test results there is overwhelming evidence of non-doping among the United States Postal Service and Discovery Channel professional cycling teams. Not the contrary as alleged by USADA.  Lack of scientific evidence of doping cannot be replaced by demented confabulations of convicted dopers who are also proven, liars.