Sunday, January 23, 2011

Tour Down Under

Yesterday was the final stage in the tour down under and marks the end of Lance Armstrong's cycling career . . .  possibly. We all know he is similar to Brett Farve and Michael Jordan with their god complexes and they never seem to actually leave, although I hear Farve has also finally retired. Congrats to Garmin-Cervelo and Cameron Meyer for holding on for the win, to bad it was all over shadowed by Lance and his drug allegations. Every site I visited this week was being blown up about Lance Armstrong and if he used drugs or not so here is what I believe. I believe Lance Armstrong did use drugs, but can you really blame anyone in the pro peleton for using them? Most of these guys have been cycling all their lives starting their pro careers in their late teens early twenties and being amateurs before that, from the cyclists I have talked to this requires about 4 hours a day or 28 hours a week of riding and this doesn't include all the time for travelling, stretching, massage, etc. This does not leave much time for getting an education or having a career other than cycling. However cycling is not as main stream as sports like basketball, football, etc. where they can afford to pay you a million dollars to sit on the bench. The money in cycling comes from winning and endorsements (that come from winning). When you are in a profession where everyone cheats, 5 of the last 6 Tour de France winners have tested positive, admitted to doping, or are currently waiting to hear (Alberto Contador), its hard to believe he is clean. This is the only thing I will write on the subject because I really don't care. I watch cycling with the view that they are all doping and that is just the way it is. I hope for lance's sake and his cancer foundation that nothing comes of the investigation, but if it does i'm sure cancer will have a new poster boy soon enough.

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