Lance Armstrong to be stripped of Tour de France titles and banned for life

[Jon Crofts]

Check out Yoann Offredo's crash yesterday.  Fackin' nails.

[Jon Crofts]

The Broom Wagon on Paris - Roubaix, some broken men here.

http://nos.nl/video/493569-de-achterkant-van-de-hel.html

[seanthevillan]

Got a spare 78mil, Lance?

Ouch, though it says in the small print that 'whistleblower', and Yellow Jersey winning cheat, Floyd Landis, can expect 15-25% of any damages..

[lovejoy]

I'm not sure we'd be where we are today without Landis' whistle blowing.

[Jon Crofts]

I woke up this morning safe in the knowledge that I've won just as many Tour de France titles as Lance Armstrong.

[lovejoy]

...and you're not a liar and a cheat (are you?)

[Jon Crofts]

Fair enough, I'm deleting that comment.

[lovejoy]

I think that's over the line.

[Jon Crofts]

Should be interesting to see how Team Colombia perform at the Giro, a team packed with climbers, they'll attack at every opportunity in the climbs, should be a stiff challenge to Wiggo's Giro ambitions.

[N'Rexy]

Agree about Colombia. Looking forward to the Giro a lot. Looking forward to seeing Contador in le Tour too. Apparently his training at Godolphin is going well. Boom, boom!

[Dave Cooper please]

Gonna start a new thread to keep the proper cycling with proper cyclists out of the thread about the drug cheat.

[PaulWinch again]

On a related note Tyson Gay and Asafa Powell test positive for drugs, sick of all this really.

[rob_bridge]

On a related note Tyson Gay and Asafa Powell test positive for drugs, sick of all this really.

Very very depressing especially as Gay requested previously that he be tested at additional times.

As Brendan Foster said many years ago 'if Zatopek won  3 Golds nowadays who would believe it was clean?

Then again Cycling and Athletics seem to catch them. Football and Tennis I think have serious flaws in the number of tests especially out of competition.

[PaulWinch again]

It's very sad that so many feel the need to ruin sport.

[Dante Lavelli]

Gay's quote is an interesting one.  Does this mean he trusted someone in the sense that they promised he'd never get caught, or that they duped him into using banned substances?

"I don't have a sabotage story... I basically put my trust in someone and was let down," he said.
"I know exactly what went on, but I can't discuss it right now.
"I hope I am able to run again, but I will take whatever punishment I get like a man."

Do people think the testers now have a new bit of kit / advanced methods?  With Armstrong and Fuentes "on trial" they'd probably be quite keen to disclose information to absolve their guilt.