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August 26, 2005

Lance, Say it Isn't So

With so much publicity surrounding steroids and other performance enhancing drugs, I guess it’s only appropriate that with every success in sports comes speculation. As one of the greatest conditioned athletes ever is challenged again for performance enhancing drugs we start to wonder the means behind these accusations. Is it the pure astonishment of the feat or the dislike of the man that gives Tour de France director Jean-Marie Le-whatever the guts to accuse Lance Armstrong?

Though I completely believe Armstrong, a French newspaper has reported that urine samples from 1999 tested positive for a performance enhancing drug called EPO. Maybe in the upcoming days we’ll see why it took 4 years after 2001, when the test was first available, for the samples to come up positive.

Armstrong appeared on CNN's “Larry King Live” last night and brought up a good point, by questioning the honesty of the laboratory. It’s unfortunate that it only takes one person to say something; the media gets hold and lets it run wild causing a slew of assumptions.

Now, I don’t mean to get political, but if Lance Armstrong weren’t American or if the host country wasn’t France, is it possible no such accusations would arise?

Posted by Ryan Michael at August 26, 2005 04:38 PM