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发帖数: 5141 | 1 What bothers me the most is that Lance gives up the fight. It makes me
extremely sad.
Furthermore, USADA's decision makes its anti-doping tests totally a joke.
USADA should just stop wasting tax payers' money. Instead this money should
go to scientific research to help to improve the testing method.
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http://velonews.competitor.com/2012/08/news/cycling-world-react
Reactions to Lance Armstrong’s decision to abandon his battle with the U.S.
Anti-Doping Agency varied across the world.
“I couldn’t give a damn,” said Bernard Hinault, himself a five-time Tour
de France champion.
The French cycling icon, who won the Tour in 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982 and 1985
, told a French website. “It’s his problem, not mine. This is a problem
that should have been sorted out 10 or 15 years ago but which never was.”
Another five-time winner, the legendary Eddy Merckx, spoke out on Armstrong
’s behalf.
“Lance Armstrong is disillusioned and is up against an unjust process,” he
declared. ”At a certain point there’s a disenchantment that sets in.
Lance is saying to USADA, ‘Do what you want now, I don’t care.’
“Lance was always very correct during his career. What more can he do? All
the tests he’s undertaken, more than 500 since 2000, have come back
negative. So, either the tests don’t count for anything, or Armstrong is
legit.
“The entire process (against him) is founded on witnesses. It’s deeply
unjust.”
Speaking at the Vuelta a España, Oscar Pereiro — who was handed the
2006 Tour victory after winner Floyd Landis was stripped of his title for
doping — described the situation as “pathetic.”
“It casts doubts in everyone’s eyes about the anti-doping system, despite
the massive budget at their disposal. They shouldn’t bother,” he said at
the start of stage 7 in Huesca.
“I’m convinced that the riders who spoke out against Armstrong have done
so on condition that they won’t be punished and that they won’t have their
winnings withdrawn. Is that right?”
The winner of the 1988 Tour, Pedro Delgado, now a commentator on Spanish
television, described Armstrong as “a strong-willed character who has done
a lot for cycling” but who nevertheless had many enemies.
He questioned the wisdom of returning to the issue so many years later,
saying it made “no sense.”
“You talk about cheating but rather than trying to get justice, I think it
’s more about a power struggle between institutions. You can’t now take
away podium wins from a rider who’s given his all,” he added.
“It’s bad news for cycling and we know that the victims are always
cyclists.”
The technical director of the Vuelta a España, Abraham Olano, said that
as a former cyclist he found it “normal and right” that Armstrong had
chosen not to defend himself.
“The only thing that he could do was to plead his innocence and he hasn’t
been able to do that. The damage is done for him. There are tests to follow
and if he didn’t give a positive test at the time, then there’s nothing
else to add,” he said.
Johan Bruyneel, Armstrong’s longtime directeur sportif — who has chosen to
face his own arbitration hearing on similar charges — wrote on his website
that he was “disappointed for Lance and for cycling in general, that
things have reached such a point that Lance has had enough and no longer
wants to challenge the … campaign against him.”
“Lance has never withdrawn from a fair fight in his life so his decision
today underlines what an unjust process this has been,” he added.
As regards his own case, the Belgian added: “I hope that it will soon be
determined that the case that USADA initiated against me should never have
gotten as far as it has.
“Due to the sensitive nature of legal proceedings, I have been advised that
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