Day: October 22, 2012

Lance Armstrong’s luck is nothing but bad these days.

I personally don’t think it’s right for him to be stripped of titles dating back to 1999.

That is the same year by the way that the United States Anti-Doping agency was created.

I suppose the USADA needed to have a trophy on their wall and they decided that Lance Armstrong would do nicely.

I look at the almost 13 year investigation as a nothing but a witch hunt.

After all if you went back 13 years into a lot of folks pasts you could find evidence of drug use.

If we threw out all the actors, sports figures, business people, senators, and members of congress who’d had drugs, or been treated for drug abuse, or were still using during the past 13 years…. well television and the halls of the government would be a lot emptier.

The thing I find most interesting is that quick search of statute of limitations on drug possession in a random sampling of states is anywhere from 2 to 5 years.

Even in Colorado where the USADA is based… the statute of limitations is 10 years so why didn’t they just let it go?

Armstrong has been retired from the Tour de France since 2009. And… they didn’t find any evidence of him doping IN 2009! Of course Lance didn’t win in 2009 so they probably weren’t looking too hard! 

It doesn’t matter to me if Armstrong did it or not. I’ve never watched or much cared about the Tour de France or any cycling races for that matter. 

What bothers me is that you have an independent agency that was ANYTHING but impartial. The USADA apparently kept subjecting samples from Lance Armstrong to better and better testing and analysis procedures, with the intent to find something amiss. It’s almost a given that if you go into a situation expecting to find something… you will. (Check out youtube and look for UFO videos!)

I was reminded of the old inquisition techniques to identify a witch.

Tie the arms and legs of the suspected witch and throw them into a deep body of water… If they floated then you retrieved them and burned them at the stake. If they didn’t float well… you were wrong, they weren’t a witch and now they’re with God.

It’s pretty obvious that the USADA is nothing more than a Grand Inquisitor who is determined to find something wrong. 

So the lesson to any of you budding Cyclists, Triathletes or Olympic hopefuls is this…

DON’T WIN!

Mediocrity is King now and we have the agencies to ENFORCE IT.