Livestrong by Injecting Drugs in your Arse?

Here’s an excellent Sports Illustrated articles on Lance Armstrong.

http://bit.ly/i58rke

Anyone who knows about doping knows that WADA and the testers are light years behind the dopers. That’s the way it’s always been, despite what the doping authorities say. Passing numerous doping tests, unfortunately, doesn’t mean that a person is ‘clean’.

None of us have any way of knowing for certain whether Lance took drugs. Maybe the FDA investigation will prove he did, or maybe it won’t. But there is certainly evidence (circumstantial and far from definitive) of doping on Lance’s part. Paul Kimmages’s book, Rough Ride, is a masterpiece. It’s before Armstrong’s time, but it sets the scene for what cycling is like.

Game of Shadows by Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams tells how systematic doping has infiltrated sport. And David Walsh’s book on Armstrong, LA Confidential raises questions about Armstrong’s career. Because of libel laws in Ireland and the UK, it’s not available in all good bookstores, or in fact any bookstores of any variety. You’ll have to order it via amazon.com (not .co.uk).

The relentless whispers about Armstrong are not based on his fame or sporting achievements as many would have you believe. They’re based on cycling’s reputation for doping, systematic doping in other sports and the evidence around Armstrong himself.