Lance Armstrong asks: Are Team Sky too strong to be clean?

Lance who ... ?

I have no words.

the media fall for it every time, they should stop reporting what the has-been(or was he ever?) says. He's history and he really doesn't matter any more. Wise up road.cc

The words of his outburst are meaningless. What was actually going on in LA's head when he tweeted:

"notice me!
notice me!
I'm over here!"

confirmation

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Not only @francesco_reda @TeamIdea but also @maurosanta84 @teamaev positive on doping at Italian Championships #rtdf

Well we know athletics is in deep trouble with doping with whole countries implicated - Jamaica, Kenya and Russia

We know the most dopers in this country are from the two rugby codes, mainly steroids (no surprise when u think about it).

Cycling though is forever tainted since Festina and until now with LA supercharging it.

I don't believe cycling is anyway near the worse offenders and if only Dr Fuentes patients apart from cycling were not blocked from release eh ?

Er, coming from a nation (not GB) with limited resources and not enough funding to provide even his kit for the Commonwealth games where he Performed well enough to be seen by Barlowworld (and noticed by Brailsford) to offer his first pro contract shortly followed by his first grand tour.

All pretty much on his own merit from a backwater in cycling terms.

Not exactly lazy really.

Who cares what he thinks.

crap not give I a do thinks he what

Rearrange

Or is the subtext, "This is what I could have achieved had I not been lazy, seeking out illegal shortcuts rather than putting in the effort"

I think it was pretty tongue-in-cheek from Armstrong, rather than an accusation.

To mimic the new SiS advert (Strange seeing that on telly.)
"But then, what does he know?"

Two word reply to any Lance comment.

Travis Tygart

Lance is no fool, he just knows how to work the media, he's about to start his One Day Ahead so it doesn't take a genius to work out he wants to raise his profile...

What better way to court the media than to make some provocative comments. Its certainly got everyone talking.

If he's as contrite as he claims, Lance Armstrong needs to fuck off and live under a rock.

And road.cc need to stop giving this troll oxygen. Yes, I know he generates page-views. At what cost? The reason he got away with it for so long was because he was worth so much press attention to the sport.

Stop reporting on him. Stop encouraging him. He's some guy with a twitter account who has won the Tour de France as many times as I have.

Lance is a weird bloke, a sociopath some have said. He feeds off the attention he gets and has a perverse relationship with this sport and people in general.

I think he needs to be ignored, regardless of whether he is right or wrong. He's a bad egg with low morals.

Don't reply to him on Twitter, don't employ him to commentate or work in cycling. Let him simmer in his own strange juices.

I think he still deserves a tip of the hat for continuing to work to raise money for charity, but even then I can't help but wonder if he's just so self-involved it's another way to boost his ego.

Basically he's a nooob.

Who knows if there are new doping techniques that go undetected by current testing. But if there are, it's highly unlikely that it's just Sky doing it.
Given the events of the last couple of years and that we now know riders can be tested positive years after their careers are finished. I'm going to believe it's clean until proved otherwise. Go Froome!

My understanding is that the "Don't ask me, I have no clue" was in response to someone who had asked him his thoughts.

IMO the UCI etc are testing the riders, they monitor the riders... if there is something going on, they will find it. If they find nothing, then let it be. There has to be a point at which enough is enough otherwise why not say every single rider is doping? AND they still have to ride up those mountains. No substance will make that easy.

Poacher turned gamekeeper? Interesting.