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By BIGPHILLY, Section Other Sports
Who would have thought? In a world where the French are the neighborhood pansy and always try to stab Americans in the back, some clown with a name of Jean-Marie Leblanc and a magazine by the name of L'Equipe have accused Lance Armstrong of cheating. SHOCKING!
Q: What did France used to be called?
However, Lance Armstrong has been remarkable in his athletic accomplishment of dominating the cycling world in Jordan'esque fashion. Actually - he's more dominating the Michael Jordan ever was. That in itself is incredible. "We can stand here like the French, or we can do something about it." ---- Marge Simpson PARIS (AP) - The director of the Tour de France said it was a "proven scientific fact" that Lance Armstrong had a performance-boosting drug in his body during his 1999 Tour win, and that the seven-time champion owed fans an explanation.
In a story Wednesday, Jean-Marie Leblanc praised L'Equipe for an investigation that reported that six urine samples provided by Armstrong during the 1999 Tour tested positive for the red blood cell-booster EPO. The French sports daily on Tuesday accused Armstrong of using EPO during his first Tour win in 1999. "For the first time -- and these are no longer rumors or insinuations, these are proven scientific facts -- someone has shown me that in 1999, Armstrong had a banned substance called EPO in his body," Leblanc told the paper. * Does it suprise anyone that a FRENCH paper and the Director of the Tour de France (French guy) hate Lance Armstrong? Here's a US Citizen who comes over once a year, whips up on all the other cyclists in the world on French soil and makes their vaunted course look like a kiddie course? Historic cycling event that the French are famous for? Nope. The Lance Armstrong Open.
Q: How does a French soldier surrender? Here's how the testing of Armstrong's blood doping went down: I. Take Samples that aren't legitimate L'Equipe's investigation was based on the second set of two samples used in doping tests. The first set were used in 1999 for analysis at the time. Without those samples, any disciplinary action against Armstrong would be impossible, French Sports Minister Jean-Francois Lamour said. Lamour said he was forced to have doubts about L'Equipe's report because he had not seen the originals of some of the documents that appeared in the paper II. Take Samples without Identification (Good One) Separately, the lab said it could not confirm that the positive results were Armstrong's. It noted that the samples were anonymous, bearing only a six-digit number to identify the rider, and could not be matched with the name of any one cyclist. However, L'Equipe said it was able to make the match. * Ok. I believe you. III. Perform Testing by Biased/Unobjective People L'Equipe is owned by the Amaury Group whose subsidiary, Amaury Sport Organization, organizes the Tour de France and other sporting events. The paper often questioned Armstrong's clean record and frequently took jabs at him - portraying him as too arrogant, too corporate and too good to be real. "Never to such an extent, probably, has the departure of a champion been welcomed with such widespread relief," the paper griped the day after Armstrong won his seventh straight Tour win and retired from cycling. * Probably wouldn't lie to prove anything would you? ---------------------------- The truth is this. The TOUR didn't have any serious drug testing policies in place until 2001. If anyone should be ran through the criticism machine it should be Jean-Marie Leblanc who couldn't institute a policy to keep his sport clean. You hate Armstrong? Fine. You want to drug test? Excellent. You want to look back 6 years ago at unmarked urine samples and have the process performed by a biased unobjective news outlet? Deplorable. ---------------------
"FrenchMAN" is an oxymoron."
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