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Originally Posted by The_Jazz
I go back and forth on Armstrong. I'm currently thinking "clean", mainly because he just did a mountain bike race in the US that he lost by 2 minutes 2 years ago. He beat the guy who beat him then by something like 20 minutes this year. Two years ago, he basically put down the Cheetos, got off the couch and still placed second. This year he trained. He also pioneered the "live low, train high" doctrine for cycling (distance runners, particularly East Africans, have been doing that very successfully for decades).
Phelps? I'm pretty sure he held age group national records as a kid and that he was the youngest swimmer ever on the Olympic team. He didn't exactly explode on the scene like Bolt. He's been a force for a long time. It's guys like him and Gebrselassie that are quite obviously the genetic freaks that some folks think Bolt is. I'm just not one of those.
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Bolt has been winning gold medals in youth championships since 2002. Im not saying he is clean. Im just wondering why the suspicions over him and not the others.
Meanwhile, there is quite a lot of evidence that Lance cheated. He trained with a notorious supplier of PEDs, several of his teammates tested positive, the 99 test came back positive when they finally devised a way to test for EPO, former masseuses and teammates have reported witnessing him use PEDs, etc. Not surprisingly, short after his retirement a large number of cyclists were caught cheating as well.