Who Gets Lance Armstrong's Titles?
Jay J. Hector sent me this -- a comment from a photo site:
From a comment to the Reuters article:"...But who do we give the tour wins to then? For example lets look at 2005, the last year he won. Do we give the win to Ivan Basso even though he was banned for doping in 2006? Or do we go to third place with Jan Ulrich? Oh nope we can't as he was already stripped of that third place for doping. Well certainly fourth place Francisco Mancebo will win, except that he was caught in 2006 as well. So how about Vinokourov? Whoops forgot about his 2007 doping. So did Levi Leipheimer (then 6th) win his first Tour de France? Nope guess not he was in the same scandal as Lance. So down to seventh and Michael Rasmussen, but they caught him in 2007. Eighth place then? Did Cadel Evans win well before we thought he did in 2011? I guess he did. Let's hope he stays clean because Floyd Landis (already stripped of a victory in 2006) is next followed by 5 more guys linked to doping. All I'm saying is that we are running out of clean cyclists."
Well, time to start following the curling competitions.
Pricklypear at October 22, 2012 10:54 PM
If the guy went through 500 blood tests without getting caught, how is it possible to give a rats ass about this sport anymore?
Wat could the coin of their integrity possibly be worth?
Crid [CridComment at gmail] at October 23, 2012 5:04 AM
I heard something about there simply being no winner of the TdF for all seven years. I'm more bothered by Armstrong's apparent a-hole behavior towards those around him than the doping. Maybe if he'd been a nicer person, he wouldn't have had all those people (offered leniency in their doping punishments) testify against him.
I am am avid follower of the Tour but they're making me not care with this vendetta. OK, it's actually the taxpayer-funded US Anti Doping Agency that seems to have the vendetta.
BlogDog at October 23, 2012 6:07 AM
That is amazing.
Eric at October 23, 2012 7:34 AM
Official word is, no one gets them.
silverpie at October 23, 2012 9:29 AM
The problem is pretty hilarious.
NicoleK at October 23, 2012 11:50 AM
"OK, it's actually the taxpayer-funded US Anti Doping Agency that seems to have the vendetta."
This is why I believe that U.S.A. will be the sole superpower at least for the next 100 years. SHE correct HERSELF.
Can you imagine Chinese Anti Doping Agency initiating a drug probe for Ye Shiwen?
http://www.policymic.com/articles/12230/chinese-swimmer-steroids-scandal-ye-shiwen-doping-crisis-proof-usa-is-scared-of-china
chang at October 23, 2012 1:23 PM
Michael Rasmussen was never caught. He merely failed to properly report his whereabouts and then lie about it. I still don't think he was clean, but the case against him is pretty weak.
Jesper at October 23, 2012 11:25 PM
Kid's stuff, really. What about all the wins Joe Paterno's corpse was stripped of? If Penn State didn't win for all those years, a whole lot of folks were robbed.
All of this merely proves reality doesn't count, it's who gets to make the ex post facto rules.
MarkD at October 27, 2012 1:58 PM
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