Lance Armstrong-Time Trial

This is stage 1 from the 2000 Tour. Go Lance!

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• David
• Millar

[SammySoliman]

Armstrong! They should call him Lance Legstrong

[cmrhappy11]

@bampie1: I didn't say he is guilty - I said him never failing a drugs test doesn't mean a lot. Floyd Landis didn't fail a drugs test until that one in the TDF, but he had been doped up to the eyeballs for the previous four years. If Floyd had retired after stage 16 of the TDF he could be saying the same thing - 'I never tested positive'. There is enough smoke around LA for me to be highly suspicious, but will likely never know the truth.

[Teddykinso]

Lol at Pantini, though on the climbs he crucified everyone, even Lance and Ullrich.

[kennethponggawa]

@TheCheesyCheesus im thinking more to the mavic iO and mavic comete for track cycling or something from rolf prima, but i doubt that they even have brake line haha, thats definitely not an aerospoke, its friggin thick!

[TheCheesyCheesus]

@kennethponggawa called disc and aerospoke

[kennethponggawa]

wait, is he using track rims? disk + 5 spoke

[hellsadore]

@YiftertheShifter1 You should keep in mind too that Lance never was able to climb with the best in his 4 first TDF, he was just able to stay with gruppeto when he didn't leave TDF !

He is like Riis, who has admitted EPO use for his TDF win, he had never showed that he could be a TDF winner. Sure his one-day race abilities shouldn't be dismissed but that has nothing to do with TDF (mountain stages and a 21 days of racing).

By comparaison, all great champions were detected at 23 or 24 yo.

[Teddykinso]

@gmarte12 you still wouldnt be as nimble as the bikes on the downhills lol

[YiftertheShifter1]

@dachicagoan I don't think a person who wins two stages, plus a world championship and place among the top 10 in an Olympic time trial "sucks" at the sport. Anyways, there are the usual contradictory theories saying Armstrong doped, which caused his cancer (and yet he supposedly "sucked" in the Tour) and he doped after cancer, which explains his transformation. That makes no sense. Keep in mind that Lance placed 4th in the Vuelta the year in 1998 before his tour victories.

[dachicagoan]

I don't get it, Lance barely finishes the Tour in the 90s, then after cancer he passes Pantani (mountain king) in the Alps like he's a toddler & then does as good or better than David Millar (time trial king) against the clock. Lance also beats Ullrich, Zulle, Virenque & other top contenders easily when in the 90s Armstrong had NO chance against them. And many of them admitted doping!! In cycling, you are born gifted. You don't suck at the sport and then become a drugfree-champion, very fishy!!

[kie7077]

@saberfan123 Is that a case full of drugs which don't show up in drugs tests?

[isaachaze1]

@cmrhappy11 well, they should just let it go then, don't you think? i mean if they can't catch someone doping at the time of the actual race, it should just be left alone. what's the point of dredging it up at this point? to keep him from winning any more tour de frances?