Well that's the more blunt way of putting it but as usual he's dead right.
[Armstrong] later, while winning the Tour de Swiss, the month before the Tour de France, tested positive for EPO at which point he and Mr Bruyneel flew to the UCI headquarters and made a financial agreement with Mr. Vrubrugen (sic) to keep the positive test hidden.
There are many many more details that I have in diaries and am in the process of writing into an intelligible story
One wonders whether he hasn't been paid to keep quiet. Should be an interesting few days...
This is a man who spent several years and hundreds of thousands of dollars (including money he begged from "fans") denying he doped. Now he says he did it all along. He is not a credible witness.
I still loved that breakaway.
Quote from: andygates on 20 May, 2010, 03:02:58 pmI still loved that breakaway.Indeed, that was awesome, even if somewhat assisted.
Can we retrieve all those threads where people (some here) defended Landis ad nauseum? Blah, blah the lab made a mistake etc. etc. The evidence was overwhelming.
I find it hilarious (and telling) that he's upset because they detected the wrong banned substance. It shows that when a person turns to the Dark Side, not just the training and dosage (and PCT and so on) become part of the game, but so is the evasion of detection. WADA become another foe like an opposing team or an injury, to be planned around and defeated if possible.