Today's obligatory Lance-related article...since it is the TDF.

[karaokegal]

Lance Armstrong Faces Grim Endgame as His Doctors Are Banned for Doping

I think everybody knows how much I'd love to see Lance actually busted for this crap, BUT I'm really skeptical about this story, since last week's brou-ha-ha about a bunch of team-mates giving evidence to USADA seems to have a been a load mahooey.

Comments

[morganmuffle]

I don't think the team-mates stuff was rubbish I think it was just... well I'm pretty certain they'll have been called to give evidence and I think someone at a not-so-big-and-clever newspaper found that out and made the jumpt from "ex-teammates giving evidence" to WITNESSES AGAINST LANCE when the case is ongoing *shrugs*

It does look weirdly like everything Lance touches atm is crumbling. I really have no idea what he thinks he's doing with this appeal to a federal judge which was 1) stupid 2) bad PR 3) more stupid 4) if proved right would get a whole heap of other dopers off the hook...

I still mostly wish he would just go away somewhere and live quietly with his family and stop it with the sport and the appeals.

[karaokegal]

"Living quietly" doesn't appear to be something he's constitutionally capable of doing.

I keep thinking that the "evidence" story was either a deliberate leak or a plant designed to mess with specific riders, OR maybe someone in USADA thought there was going to be a cover-up so they leaked? I dunno. Maybe I'm just a big ol' tin-hat, but there was something VERY screwy about that sequence of events.

[morganmuffle]

There were some suggestions that the leak actually came from Lance's camp because it effectively put a lot of the attention onto those riders, particularly as they were all at the tour, and obviously more or less says they all doped too.

It's all so messy,

[karaokegal]

That would be extremely Machiavellian. (Very clever, Mr. Armstrong.)