Its Tour de France Time Again...

And that means it is time to talk about DOPING!!!!!

 

I have sworn off professional cycling again and again.  I seriously thought I'd kicked the bug this week until I got the e-mails and phone calls from Discovery Channel asking me to take part in their press conference with Johan Bruyneel and George Hincapie.  I was hooked and hungry for the tour.

 

Then came a new info about Frankie Andreau and his wife having been supbeonad to testify in a case about Lance Armstrong doping.  The Andreaus were present when Lance was talking to one of his doctors during his cancer treatments and supposedly Armstrong admitted he'd used EPO, steriods and human growth hormone in his cycling career. 

 

More information was released about the Spanish doping ring that was broken up back in May.  If you believe sources, the whole Wurth team and some of Telekom (Jan Ullrich and Oscar Sevilla) are implicated. 

 

Greg LeMond has come out and stated that he's been harassed by Lance Armstrong for making statements in 2001 questioning Lance's amazing recovery and ability to ride in the tour.  LeMond claims that Lance threatened to find 11 witnesses who would swear that LeMond took EPO during his tour wins. 

 

Velonews has info on all of this.  It is just sad that this stuff is going on.

 

Pete