I'd love to see this!

[SteelBlue]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/more/09/06/bc.cyc.armstrong.retirement.ap/index.html

Looks like the French may have pissed Lance off enough for him to win one more.

[Archaea]

to have a clean Armstrong clobber them.

[creekster]

Let's just say that LA's samples from 99 tested positive for EPO. By '01 there was an EPO testing protocol in place and being used. He has been tested for EPO both in and out of competition ever since. He has never failed any of those tests. So even if he was positive in '99, he still kicked their butts for 5 years while testing negative undser the sanme test they are now applying retroactively. This certainly doens't make drug use in '99 acceptable, but it certainly doens't seem to taint the validity of his victory, either.

[ute4ever]

I don't see what this will prove. They claim his '99 win was tainted, but apparently not '00 - '05. So what if he makes another clean win in '06? They'll still criticize '99.

Aren't the French the people who believe the US staged 9/11/01?

[Parrot Head]

Did anyone see that WADA Chair Dick Pound said it is “highly probable” that Lance Armstrong tested positive for the banned blood booster EPO in ’99. Pound: “After studying all the evidence from this affair I’m of the opinion that there is evidence of doping.”

Of course, this was also quoted in the French AFP.

Isn't Richard American?

WADA=World Anti-Doping Assn

[creekster]

Richard Pound is Canadian, but his middle name might be head.

Pound's WADA VP, a Finn, has criticized Pound's conclusions calling them premature and (paraphrased) reckless, btw.