How did lance armstrong not get caught for doping for so many years? If its that hard to get caught then should we be worried about other althletes?
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He never “got caught” because he was good for business. Americans began watching the Tour and buying bicycles like crazy. The second question – yes you should worry about every professional athlete.
Every sport has cheaters, and a lot of them. Armstrong said it, Arnold said it, hell even esports and “Pro” streamers has a high % of cheaters. People glorify their idols to the point where they don’t want it to be true.
Watch the amazing doc, Icarus, on Netflix. Show the lengths he and others went/go through to not get caught.
And what sports have more rigorous testing than professional cycling?
Also noting that pro cycling was really exciting to watch back then.
Cab driver told me once that Armstrong’s cancer was a ruse to mask PED’s. Any truth to this?
Honestly, from the NCAA Athletes I’ve known, many of them have a family friend, mentor, or someone they personally known who has played in the big leagues of whatever sport they play. And the caution most of my friends have received is that in professional sports, most players are doping, and many seasons are generally pre-determined or rigged.
Another misnomer is that he was considered the GOAT at cycling at the time. Only in the US.
He was considered a specialist and only competed in the Tour de France.
It kills me that you said they have to go so far down the list that there is no point any more. Somewhere there’s a guy who finished 25th who stuck to his morals and said, “I’m riding this clean. I KNOW I can’t beat the doped athletes, and I know I can’t make a living at this without doping, but damnit, someone has to try.” Someone give that guy a goddamn medal.
Cycling, track, baseball, football, you name it: the sport has doping. It’s more a question of how significant is the doping.
Sports that favor speed, endurance, or strength are most prone to doping while sports that favor skill, such as basketball, are less prone to doping.
The function of doping controls isn’t to stop doping, it’s to keep it to a dull roar. Everyone above a certain level of every sport is using some form of PEDs. You can’t not – the margins of difference in terms of performance are so small, and the benefits so great, that even microdosing is very worth it. Effective anti-doping controls keep things like Tom Simpson from happening – died of a heart attack mid-race after doing enormous quantities of PEDs and street drugs.
If we were really worried about athletes, we wouldn’t incentivize winning so much in our culture.
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