lance's mistake

Rik Van Diesel said:

Lance should have simple ignored equipe. I think he has just given
credibility to the whole story and drew attention.

Isn't it a pretty well-known phenomena that when a person 'talks too much'
discussing guilt, or a troubling case, etc. that it causes suspicion?

If you think about something you didn't do, say being asked if you took the
last beer, for example, you'd just say 'no'. Even if you weren't even a
beer drinker, you wouldn't start talking about your beer drinking habits,
istm.

But think about someone who may launch into a blizzard of commentary: "Well
Billy drinks a lot of beer, plus ask anyone, I wasn't even in the house
that day, and I don't like that kind of beer, and even if I did take it,
which I didn't, I'd have replaced it, and .....ad nauseum."

The individual is answering questions they weren't even asked, (and
volunteering information that can be checked!) and sounding quite bothered.
Not to say innocent persons might not get excited and go on and on. ;-)

So I agree, he should have ignored it past a simple "I've said all along,
I've never taken illegal doping products; I've never tested positive for
performance enhancing drugs", and left it at that. Both those statements
could be interpreted as true, and he could probably pass a polygraph if
those were the only questions.

-jj

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Jet said:

Isn't it a pretty well-known phenomena that when a person 'talks too much'
discussing guilt, or a troubling case, etc. that it causes suspicion?

If you think about something you didn't do, say being asked if you took the
last beer, for example, you'd just say 'no'. Even if you weren't even a
beer drinker, you wouldn't start talking about your beer drinking habits,
istm.

But think about someone who may launch into a blizzard of commentary: "Well
Billy drinks a lot of beer, plus ask anyone, I wasn't even in the house
that day, and I don't like that kind of beer, and even if I did take it,
which I didn't, I'd have replaced it, and .....ad nauseum."

The individual is answering questions they weren't even asked, (and
volunteering information that can be checked!) and sounding quite bothered.
Not to say innocent persons might not get excited and go on and on. ;-)

So I agree, he should have ignored it past a simple "I've said all along,
I've never taken illegal doping products; I've never tested positive for
performance enhancing drugs", and left it at that. Both those statements
could be interpreted as true, and he could probably pass a polygraph if
those were the only questions.

That'd be fine if it was only about his personal interests. As it
stands there are a lot of people out there who admire him for reasons
beyond the bike. In a way he has to protect their interests as well.

There's no one even remotely close to Lance's stature in the
cancer-survivor-role-model category. Regardless of whether someone
thinks he doped or not, no one would say that he doesn't take the
cancer fighting role seriously. Having even one person struggling with
cancer give up hope because his idol was discredited would be a major
blow to someone who actually cared.

Sometimes you have to stop and sign autographs whether you want to or
not.

He also may have seen how the Tyler thing worked out after Tyler
refused to comment for so long.

R

"Rik Van Diesel" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Lance should have simple ignored equipe. I think he has just given
credibility to the whole story and drew attention.

I don't think it's that simple. Lance has many people thinking about him
that are fighting cancer. They expect to hear his side of it. To ignore
would be a mistake.