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Originally Posted by MikeWaters
I'm 90% certain that Armstrong doped.
From his teammates that doped, to his consulting and working with a notorious doper, to his employee who said she saw evidence of his doping, to his mafia tactics on the TDF rider who had ratted out some dopers--this was when the guy entered a couple breakaways, but then Lance rode out to join it until the other riders yelled at him to get out.
Does this mean Lance didn't pedal every step of the way? No. Is Lance an asshole and a jerk? Yes. Is Lance mentally tough? Yes.
I rode the Tour de Paris one year. As in Paris, TX. I was there the year during one of Lance's runs at the TDF. Guess who the guest "starter" of the rally was.
Lance's father.
Blood runs real thick in that family.
Let's not forget his cheating and running around town in Austin, his divorce, his recently cavorting with, what, a 21 year old?
Man is he a warrior. But man does he make the stomach churn.
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90% is a too high.
The story of the guy he chased down is a little more involved than that, I believe. The rider had been accused by Lance of being a cheat and so the rider caused an actiojn to be instituted against lance in the courts (their system is different than ours) and this pissed Lance off. So he then woudl not allow the break to leave until this guy was out of it. This is from memory, however, and so it could be wrong. Either way, it shows that Lance was Le Patron in the way Hinault and others had been in the past. There is no Patron this year. It also shows that Lance is a warrior,as you say. It only tangentially suggests that he was a druggie, however.