Re: Armstong To Pound

Brian, why don't you open the June cycle Sport and see what advice Moreno
Argentin has. Perhaps, just perhaps, he has a better perspective on the
matter than some clown that belongs to the Bar Association in the USA.

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From: "B. Lafferty" [email hidden]

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It's more of the tired and worn "I never tested positive," "We're the

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tested Sport/race in the world," "We've cleaned the sport up" mantra.
Earth to Krispy, the sport has a problem. Give Bassons or Willie a

call

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some time.

Brian, It's still innocent until proven guilty as far as I know about

here.

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Lance probably is the most tested athlete in the world. What I got from

Pound's

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statement was that all procyclist are doping, we just haven't caught

them

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yet.

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I have a problem with that attitude.
Bill C

What Pound was noting was the fact that drugs are being used in the TdF.
That and the political war that is being waged by Hein to be able to blunt
sanctions required by WADA; sanctions which are intended to be consistent
throughout all countries and all sports.

As to drugs in the TdF, Pound's statement is accurate. One rider in the
2003 Tour tested positive for EPO. We know from blood profiles and
statements of riders that blood boosting was being practiced during the
Tour. In response to this the UCI has announced that it will be using an
Aussie developed test to detect the more traditional form of blood

boosting.

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Add to that the recent Cofidis disclosures (notes in Pound's reply to
Armstrong) and you can see that cycling does have a problem.

After all that has happened in cycling regarding drugs since 1998,
Armstrong's own equivocations over the Actovegin issue ("Actiosomething"😉
and his lambasting of Bassons, I would have to agree with Pound that Mr.
Armstrong is acting quite disingenuously in sending off his letter.

As to Krispy, I think the man protests too much. From a pr standpoint it
tends to me him, and the riders, look like they have something to hide.

Btw, do you think Krispy contacted all the other pro riders before

claiming

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to speak for them? Somehow, I doubt that he did.