"A health insurance company sponsors our team, so it is even more crucial that we play by the anti-doping rules. Much like my former team Shaklee, a positive test would be extremely detrimental to the team's future. It's reassuring to know that my teammates feel as strongly as I do about competing clean. But just competing clean isn't enough. We also cannot condone the spreading of baseless innuendo about competitors. To refrain from slander is not equal to "covering up". We shouldn't let paranoia and conspiracy theories poison our thinking. How easy does it become to rationalize defeat with "oh, the winner was lubed to the gills"? It's easy to give up when the throttles are wide open and it feels like you can't hang on any longer, and you are thinking, "I'm not on a level playing field here."
As I've said before, in all my years racing in the USA I have seen drugs used by a competitor only once. Critics point to high profile positive tests of US pro's, but several of those positives were bogus on closer inspection, such as Zajicek and Sbeih. Clean racers abound and excel here in the USA!"
In my opinion Lafferty wouldn't hesitate to slander Jesus.
"A health insurance company sponsors our team, so it is even more crucial that we play by the anti-doping rules. Much like my former team Shaklee, a positive test would be extremely detrimental to the team's future. It's reassuring to know that my teammates feel as strongly as I do about competing clean. But just competing clean isn't enough. We also cannot condone the spreading of baseless innuendo about competitors. To refrain from slander is not equal to "covering up". We shouldn't let paranoia and conspiracy theories poison our thinking. How easy does it become to rationalize defeat with "oh, the winner was lubed to the gills"? It's easy to give up when the throttles are wide open and it feels like you can't hang on any longer, and you are thinking, "I'm not on a level playing field here."
As I've said before, in all my years racing in the USA I have seen drugs used by a competitor only once. Critics point to high profile positive tests of US pro's, but several of those positives were bogus on closer inspection, such as Zajicek and Sbeih. Clean racers abound and excel here in the USA!"
In my opinion Lafferty wouldn't hesitate to slander Jesus.
I really do not see how an HMO/PPO as a sponsor would mean the riders are clean....
Would doping be considered a "pre-existing condition"???
"A health insurance company sponsors our team, so it is even more crucial that we play by the anti-doping rules.
As opposed to the "it's okay to boost performance at least until someone on the team gets busted" rules.
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Much like my former team Shaklee, a positive test would be extremely detrimental to the team's future.
Glad to hear they're doing their utmost to avoid any such possibility.
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It's reassuring to know that my teammates feel as strongly as I do about competing clean. But just competing clean isn't enough. We also cannot condone the spreading of baseless innuendo about competitors. To refrain from slander is not equal to "covering up". We shouldn't let paranoia and conspiracy theories poison our thinking. How easy does it become to rationalize defeat with "oh, the winner was lubed to the gills"? It's easy to give up when the throttles are wide open and it feels like you can't hang on any longer, and you are thinking, "I'm not on a level playing field here."
As I've said before, in all my years racing in the USA I have seen drugs used by a competitor only once. Critics point to high profile positive tests of US pro's, but several of those positives were bogus on closer inspection, such as Zajicek and Sbeih. Clean racers abound and excel here in the USA!"
"B Lafferty" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
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Because John hasn't seen more than one doper, there isn't a problem? OK. So: 1. Those positives of US cyclists in the past year are mere fantasy. 2. I've never witness a homicide, therefore, the national homicide rate must be very low.
Decanio said that he was as fast as his doping roommate but in the Lafferty racing manual it says that anyone that's fast MUST be doping.
I find it interesting that you would think that my ex-wife, whose name you apparently do not know, would ever say anything like that. You seem to have mistaken your mother for someone else's wife.
