From:
http://sports.yahoo.com/sc/news?slug=ap-landis-lemond&prov=ap&type=lgns
(Lemond quoted, snipped):
"If it does come back positive, that's even more tragic to me," LeMond
said, because the pressure to compete against those who are cheating
"takes good people and forces them to make tragic decisions."
"We had another American test positive, and he's still in denial,"
LeMond said of Olympic gold medalist Tyler Hamilton, who's serving a
two-year suspension for blood doping. "To admit that you did cheat
takes some real courage."
LeMond, the first American to win the Tour, has quarreled with
seven-time Tour winner Lance Armstrong, but he said Armstrong should
not be lumped in with those who have been caught cheating.
"I'm not making any judgment on Lance. He hasn't been found positive,"
LeMond said. "I don't get along with him just because I don't get along
with him."
I'm not buying the "pure as the driven snow" basis for this output, but
there is a refreshing admission of reality in the first quote. And a
real change in the Lance rhetoric. Lemond has been soberly
contemplating?
Making rules you can't enforce with reliable tests = bad rules, and bad
enforcement; some get caught, are scapegoated, and the show goes on.
Minus sponsors and broadcast networks, of course.
I loved the WADA "banned" list (posted elsewhere on the ng). "OOOHHH,
now don't you *dare* go and mess with your genes!!!"
I was going to ask what the protocol was for testing gene purity, but
it's WADA-- nevermind! --D-y