2009 Come Back Interview: Lance Armstrong Before Tour Down Under w/ Paul Sherwen

An Interview of Lance Armstrong by Paul Sherwen just before the Tour Down Under comeback year.

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[tdgh12]

With so much evidence against him, why is no one talking about the doping that led to to shut a great legacy. Doping is ramped in cycling and no one is talk about it. He's lying about riding at the front from day one, not true. Go back and check your history.

[dahgutone]

@tdgh12 He competed in triathlons along with pros @ age 15. 1992 Fitchburg-Longsjo Classic Overall winner In 1993, Youngest UCI RWC winner and a TDF stage 8 winner. US National Cycling Champion Tour of America Overall 1995: TDF Stage 18 Clásica de San Sebastián Paris Nice Stage 5 This is some of his his early history. And it already says alot. If you're going to say he's lying, at least check his history as a rider.

[dahgutone]

And as a triathlete.

[minouche411]

@dahgutone Vuelta, Giro???? After his "strange" cancer he was only present on the Tour de France! I saw people spit on him. He 's not a legend he is nothing....

[dahgutone]

@minouche411

Well if you know anything about cycling. We all know that the Tour de France is the most prestigious race of the Grand Tours. So he mainly focused his goal at the Tour de France. And if you focus it on one race, you have a better chance of winning in that race rather than trying to go for #1 of all the Grand Tours.

[dahgutone]

@minouche411

So to your question... "Vuelta, Giro????"

He did participate in the Giro and the Vuelta.

1998 Vuelta he finished in 4th as overall. Not bad for a comeback from cancer.

Look at the previous comment @tdgh12. Like I said. Those results shows he can be a Tour de France contender.

With an exceptional position in the 1998 Vuelta, he started focusing on the TDF. Which he won in 1999. Year after year. And the only way to defend his title is to focus on the TDF.

[FullmetalLakers824]

he is one of my best role models, teachers of life. Bless you, Lance Armstrong!

[drmarthacastro]

Lance Armstrong is D' MAN! Contador is a baby. I like Contador too though.....but Lance...nobody like MY Lance!

[hellsadore]

@4FalconAF BS of UCI! Did they test the 2008 Giro samples which are known to be full of CERA EPO?

Of course not, UCI is not interested to catch dopers, especially stars, they only throw under the bus a few riders to keep the appearance of fighting doping.

Lance's 2009 passport was a clear indication of doping, they did nothing, they just asked him to dope less in 2010 so Lance became uncompetitive.

Don't be naive and follow the money.

[jackstein104]

can this guy still get laid even with one ball??

[ChrisPaulbasketball3]

@tdgh12 Hater, you think that Lance uses drugs...well I think you use them.

/watch?v=kc7Ab8jdpaM

What are you on?

[u368]

@4FalconAF Facts are that Lance had used EPO in 1999 as proved scientifically by LNDD testing, the validity of the testing were agreed by scientific community and even Catlin found nothing to invalid LNDD work.

Fact is that Lance recorded hematocrit values so much higher than his natural values (48 to 50% against 41%) that there is no natural method knows to do it but EPO or blood transfusion can do it.

Fact is the relation between Armstrong and the blood doping doctor Michelle Ferrari.

[hghepo]

@4FalconAF Even Catlin and all researchers of the world were unable to find something to discredit the testing done by LNDD, they had access to the research publication on those testing.

BTW how could LNDD know which were the samples belonging to Armstrong, samples are anonymous, only UCI has the keys to match samples.

WADA is an UNO organisation, not a french

UCI was qualified of corrupt at an international conference about sport in London in 2009, Armstrong's case was used to support it.

[4FalconAF]

@hghepo It's not a secret that the French WADA hates LA. So they let LNDD do very questionable research to set him up. These raise so much questions that the UCI concludes that someone objectively has to investigate the research. The results basically say that the WADA tests were so unprofessional that no conclusions could be drawn from it and they wrongly accused LA. So off course the WADA responds like that, they will never say, hey UCI you are right, our research was unprofessional.

[4FalconAF]

@u368 So how come that most riders that get caught are being caught with retests of old samples and new discovery techniques?

Sports Illustrated has nothing else then circumstantial allegations all made by people that have something to gain out of making these. No facts and no one has ever seen him actually using doping or have real proof. Combine that with no positive tests. Read the business insider, they have a nice article about the new "facts".

[u368]

@4FalconAF No old samples are not often retested, even Giro 2007 samples when CERA was massively used, were not retested !

Check your points before wriiting so big errors.

BTW Sport Illustrated have a nice article with new facts on Lance's doping like the use of a trial synthetic blood booster named Hemassist

[hghepo]

@4FalconAF Proven faulty? It's not opinion of WADA who have said that the UCI report done by Vrijman about LNDD testing was at best farcical, but for sure unprofessional. Their words to reject completely this report :

The Vrijman report is so lacking in professionalism and objectivity that it borders on farcical. Were the matter not so serious and the allegations it contains so irresponsible, we would be inclined to give it the complete lack of attention it deserves.”

[4FalconAF]

@u368 PED testings are maybe easily defeated, but that only lasts a year, and old samples are retested often. So even if he had used the most high tech doping years ago, he would now already have been tested positive on those old samples.