Juan wrote:
According to L'Equipe, Colom found positive out of competition on the 2nd of April

issoisso wrote:
Where did he ride last year? Oh right.

t-baum wrote:
It isn't cheating unless you get caught, is it.

Guido Mukk wrote:


it isn't murder unless you get caught..is it. Come on man!

t-baum wrote:

you just compared murder to cycling, come on.

t-baum wrote:
It isn't cheating unless you get caught, is it.

Reporter: Do you think Armstrong will ever come clean?
LeMond: *with great emphasis*Him? No way! ........Absolutely not he, has no conscience.

The strange thing is that my power output never increased. When I was 18 my power output was the same as when I won the Tour at 25. In fact, a few months ago I started cycling seriously again(...) I'm 47 and fat as hell (...) my power output surprisingly is still the same.
[goes on to say that he couldn't be a pro because his VO2max isn't anywhere near what it was before]

Can you finish [The Tour] clean? Absolutely. (...) Would it be more dramatic? of course. There would be bigger time differences and people blowing up a lot more. Racing as it is with doping now is robotic.

I'm very disappointed Lance worked with Dr. Ferrari. (...) Ferrari is known for one thing: if you give him money he will make you go very very fast. And it's not because of some phisiology.
In fact, I once met him. He looked down at my bike and said "what's that?"
I said "that's a power meter!"
"What's it for?" he said.

..............I said "it measures your power output so you can know if you're progressing in your training"
He had no concept of that. (...) He's just a hematologist, he knows nothing about training.

I went to the UCI (...) because in 1987 or 1988 I went to the UCI to ask them if they would consider starting to do blood tests for doping.

And I still remember the reaction of the riders: "that would violate our human rights!"

I mean...what human rights? Nobody's forcing anyone to race bikes. That's the way it was in the 80s. They fought even just having a blood test.

Armstrong said to me "C'mon Greg, you're telling me you never used EPO? Everyone's used EPO. Your win in 89 was like mine, it was a miracle"

If I'd used it, I would've won the Tour by 30 minutes, not 8 seconds

(...)

Trek never had a problem with anti-doping when I campaigned for it in the 80s, never before, never then. Never after....until Armstrong won the Tour. And then, suddenly Trek had a problem with anti-doping.

Riders are given SSRIs and other substances. You get off SSRIs you should take a year or so to wind down....but these riders stop riding and go cold turkey immediately.

They go into a severe state of depression. Then what's the option? Suicide. That's what's happening.

So I called him [Derek McQuaid] and he told me that the Tour de France winner had in fact tested positive, it was Floyd Landis.

I probably knew Floyd Landis before Floyd was positive.