Lance
As I’ve said in an earlier post, I have no idea of the truth in the Lance Armstrong case, but a few things about it seem just a little smelly to me. I am always wary of the zealots at the head of anti-doping agencies around the world, and of their methods.
That’s why a report I’ve just read seems to me worthy of independent investigation. A day after the Armstrong papers were released by the USADA, with its slightly sinister head, Mr Travis Tygart securing world-wide personal media coverage, it has been announced that five of Armstrong’s former team-mates have been given doping bans, reduced to six months each because they gave evidence against him. They will do their time over the winter and will be free to compete next year. If that is not suborning witnesses, then what the hell is?
When a kangaroo court is assembled, the smart play is usually to ignore it, and leave it to jump to its heart’s content. That’s what Armstrong and his legal team have done . . . so far. Let’s see where this finishes
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Thanks for comments on the Armstrong fiasco. Why does it seem these kinds of things usually happen to the most talented and successful? The losers who start these proceedings are like vultures, waiting for success to pounce upon it. Disgusting
By the way, I’ve missed your blog this past week!
As a politician, don’t you agree that these things often precede someone running for office? Want to bet you’ll see young Mr Tygart in Washington in a few years on Lance Armstrong’s coattails, unless it blows up in his face?
Even if he isn’t a polititian in the usual sense, he’s a “polititian”-seeking and mis-using power. Which is what my 18 years in politics proved over and over again and which is why I’m not in that world anymore!