He released a statement after being stripped of all his titles.
To be honest, I don’t buy his story.
Most people who use their body to gain money (sport athletes, bodybuilders, fitness models, regular models and so forth) use steroids. That’s just a fact. When your livelihood depends on how well you do in a competition, who couldn’t want to have an advantage over the other competitors?
That being the case, should we just go ahead an allow athletes and others to openly used PEDs rather than maintain this ridiculous charade. Or, is it possible that through anti-doping efforts such as the USADAs, PED’s actually can be removed from sport, such that fans can be confident that the performances they’re witnessing are legitimate?
The only thing that’s ridiculous is how anyone can feel good about competing and winning in an athletic event by breaking the rules of the engagement. Steroids and blood doping, whose effects are bought for little effort, skew the playing field even more and are clearly against the rules. Fuck the ridiculous charade, and fuck those who do the charading.
If Armstrong is innocent, then a bunch of people and former teammates are liars and douches. If he’s guilty, well, then he should just fucking confess and get on with it. Shouldn’t of done it.
In my opinion, yes. Unless you remove the financial incentive, people will always try to get an advantage and it’s perfectly understandable. Furthermore, we accept all kinds of advantages that skew the plain field in virtually every other area but some sports. Think about it. No one complains that Tiger Woods has had eye surgery. He now has close to perfect vision, how is that not an advantage? No one complains when performance artists like musicians take beta blockers before a performance or an audition but how is that not an advantage?
Ironically, competitive cycling is one of the least ‘green’ sports.
And the specter of genetically modified athletes (assuming that’s possible) makes things even more ridiculous: dailymail.co.uk/news/article … onger.html
Well, it was only a matter of time wasn’t it?
Anyway, was her performance that “unbelievable” ? I didn’t see it.
Funny how readily people will accept conspiracy theories like this, reported in the Daily fucking Mail, on the basis of no evidence, given how stubborn they are at refusing to believe far better evidenced conspiracy theories that appear in far higher quality publications based on far more evidence.
I didn’t say I believe it happened. I believe that it is plausible. And that if he hasn’t happened, it will someday.
What you actually wrote:
Seems like you believed it, at least up until the moment when I pointed out how this meant you were guilty of hilarious double standards, at which point you tried to backtrack.
I have no idea if it’s true or not but I think it’s possible and plausible. Why ? Because we can already meddle with your genes in some ways. That’s evidence that it is possible.Your theories are not supported by any evidence, not a shred. But it is pretty endearing seeing you defend gobbo in a completely unrelated thread.
Hence why I pointed out that you were jumping the gun by saying:
And hence why it’s now fun watching you try to squirm your way out of it.
Wow, you thought of this all by yourself?
What theories?
This has nothing to do with Gobbo, I disagree with him about all sorts of things (not that the self-styled conspiracy deniers can grasp this, despite me spelling it out for them repeatedly). This is about your utter intellectual hypocrisy and dishonesty, and the more you type, the worse it gets. Look at your own responses in this thread - bare faced denial of something everyone can see that you actually typed, a gross simplification that has little to do with the actual story you believed without evidence, and then some diversionary crap about ‘your theories’ and Gobbo.
ADDRESS THE ACTUAL ISSUE.
@Siatd
First of all, I said :
And that was in response to this:
As in, it was about time this possibility become something very real. I even asked if her performance was that extraordinary as to merit such accusations.
Do you get it now ? I find it completely plausible that someone tried to meddle with the genes of an athlete.
I’m not retracting my statement or backpedaling or being hypocritical. There’s also no double standard here.
What there is, is failure to interpret my statement on your part and and attempt to justify some of your unjustifiable claims by mocking me.
No such luck buddy.
And I’m sure we would all appreciate it if you didn’t hijack this thread.
Thanks.
‘It was only a matter of time’ = it has already happened.
‘It is only a matter of time’ = it is inevitable but hasn’t happened yet.
Yes, you are.
Oh yes there is.
Not mocking you, mocking your rather silly assumptions and lack of intellectual integrity.
Yeah, because this thread was all lively and really going places until I turned up and ‘hijacked’ it…
In America, if you’re not convicted of something, and sanctioned for it, then you didn’t do it. Ask OJ.
I’m very sorry that I don’t speak perfect English but hey, come back at me when you can speak Portuguese.
Any place is better then a thread in which you participate but more importantly, you shoudn’t hijack threads just because you have a personal vendetta against me. And you shouldn’t have a personal vendetta against me just because I think you hold stupid beliefs. That is, in itself, another stupid belief on your part.
Why would I want to learn Portuguese? One doesn’t have to speak perfect English in order to distinguish between ‘is’ and ‘was’. The difference between to be in the present tense and to be in the past tense is pretty basic, fundamental stuff without which you wouldn’t be able to say very much at all, in any language.
No personal vendetta, I do this to almost everyone.
…apart from the one you had with me 
i guess that says a lot about you.
Maybe it’s time for some self-reflection ?