I'm sure Lance knows more about what he did than absolutely anyone. But he doesn't know what the evidence against him is because part of the USADA game is that people cannot see the evidence against them before deciding whether to challenge the case or not. Why he decided not to contest is speculation but I can quite understand that there comes a time in life when you have to question do you really want to spend the next several years in a room with lawyers arguing the toss with every step followed by the media or do you just want to let it go? Years ago if I were in his position and innocent I too would have fought it but now I would let it go. A few years ago I was involved in a commercial legal dispute and my advice was its not worth the hassle, just let it go but the legal department decided they were going to go for it anyway. I and others did spend lots of time with the lawyers doing all the preparatory work and we could have done far more useful things with our time but we did win the case. And that was in the English Courts. My experience of US Courts is that its an order of magnitude greater effort involved. The UK case cost c£0.5m of legal fees, a similar US case I was involved in cost nearer $40m
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I'm sure Lance knows more about what he did than absolutely anyone. But he doesn't know what the evidence against him is because part of the USADA game is that people cannot see the evidence against them before deciding whether to challenge the case or not. Why he decided not to contest is speculation but I can quite understand that there comes a time in life when you have to question do you really want to spend the next several years in a room with lawyers arguing the toss with every step followed by the media or do you just want to let it go? Years ago if I were in his position and innocent I too would have fought it but now I would let it go. A few years ago I was involved in a commercial legal dispute and my advice was its not worth the hassle, just let it go but the legal department decided they were going to go for it anyway. I and others did spend lots of time with the lawyers doing all the preparatory work and we could have done far more useful things with our time but we did win the case. And that was in the English Courts. My experience of US Courts is that its an order of magnitude greater effort involved. The UK case cost c£0.5m of legal fees, a similar US case I was involved in cost nearer $40m
As someone said, if Armstrong and USADA were a couple up in front of him in a divorce hearing he would have given all the money to the dog.
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Vey good.
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Mike the mechanic speaks out too.
He's a contributor to The Clinic forum on Cycling News (he's TexPat if you're interested), a valuable source of 1st hand account.
Edit: that's the first time I've read all of the story in one piece, bits are familiar to me from various sources...
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This is a very boring thread which has gone on far too long on the basis of opinion and conjecture. Why not just sit back, wait, and watch the action?
Ah, the disgruntled ex-employee mechanic raises his head again. Where is all the new stuff or is USADA's cased just based on a rehash of the same old same old from the usual suspects? This by the way was the report on what happened between Lance and Mike in 2005.
Boris Bajic
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All I want to say is that this is no time for irrelevant and pointless posts just to get to 100 pages.
I hope this helps.
By the way, I always knew that Armstrong was either a Dirty, Lying, Cheating Bully or a Misunderstood Saint (please delete as history dictates).
I hope this helps.
By the way, I always knew that Armstrong was either a Dirty, Lying, Cheating Bully or a Misunderstood Saint (please delete as history dictates).
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We've almost reached the magic ton, just goes to show that love him or hate him (or in my case dont care) LA certainly gets people talking
just jim
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No it's not. And no we can't.
Is drinking caffeine during page 99 considered as cheating?
Boris Bajic
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If everyone else is doing it, how can it be seen as cheating?
The top guys are getting through these threads so fast that without caffeine you are simply not going to keep up.
But what does this have to do with Armstrong?
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