Lance Armstrong

[spud]

Lances cancer wasn't caught until it had spread to his gut and his brain. Yep, he had brain surgery to remove it. He's damn lucky to survive the cancer because they caught it so late. Read his book "It's Not About The Bike".

The general consensus is that just about all on the Le tour are doping. They are very sophisticated. One of Lances domestiques (workers) was tailed by a news crew to another town where they dumped a bag of trash. The news crew found, as I recall, syringes, insulin, HCG, and clomid. For what it's worth, HCG and clomid apparently are often prescribed for testicular cancer survivors.

Of course, Lance has never tested positive for performance enhancing drugs. He's also done a lot for cancer research and spends a lot of his free time visiting cancer wards - especially the pediatric ones. It takes balls to visit a kid dying of cancer. Big ones.

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[saudades]

Lance had testicle cancer. He had one removed. My dad had that. What you get is a prescription for test. Think about being a mormon-dude in a situation like that. For hime it's all about medicine, not drugs. He has an excuse.

Lance is not Mormon. A lot of people here in Utah tend to make a fuss here when a celebrity joins the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (that's the real name of the church--Mormon is a nickname), and I've never heard anything about him joining. Gladys Knight on the the other hand, did join.

 

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One of Lances domestiques (workers) was tailed by a news crew to another town where they dumped a bag of trash. The news crew found, as I recall, syringes, insulin, HCG, and clomid.

It wasn't another town, it was a garbage bin just outside their hotel. They found syringes. That's it. That's something EVERY rider in the tour has. It is impossible to replace everything the racers lose in their bodies through diet alone. It is impossible to eat that much.

Try riding hundreds of Kilometers every single day for 3 weeks..... You'll need to have extra vitamins, minerals, electrolytes and a whole bunch of other things replaced through IV or IM injects just to replace what your body lost.

Amazing athlete.

 

[spud]

Don't get me wrong Zylo, I think he truly is amazing too.

His book was very interesting. He got a new lease on life and was able essentially to start training all over again and build his body to be a much better cyclist. Like the saying, "If I only knew then what I know now". He used his knowledge to rebuild himself. That's why he's so much stronger than before the cancer.
When he went to that Colorado Sports Center, they found he doesn't produce as much lactic acid as others do. I think he actually broke a stationary bike - pegged the watts.

Century rides kick my ass - I can't imagine what it's like for the pros!

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[Chaps]

I think he's using EPO fo sure, i mean nowadays what athlete ISN'T using performance enhancing drugs? If you have that competitive attitude that you will do ANYTHING to be the best then u will use drugs.

 

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I think he's using EPO fo sure, i mean nowadays what athlete ISN'T using performance enhancing drugs? If you have that competitive attitude that you will do ANYTHING to be the best then u will use drugs.

Don't you think they would have caught him by now? He wasn't one of, he WAS the most drug tested athlete in the world for many years. The entire country of France was trying to nail his ass for ANYTHING and they ran test after test after test for years. Everything always negative. They even took a sample of his blood from years ago they had kept frozen from before they could test for EPO (When most guys used it) and ran tests that came back negative.

I'm pretty skeptical that he uses.

 

[tilla52]

Lance is the man, give him his props. And as in prop I don't mean test. LOL sorry had too