oh please wrote:
Look at the last TdF that Armstrong won. 2005. In the top 10, only Cadel Evans at #8 was never busted (eventually) for doping. Everyone else either busted, confessed, or implicated in Operation Puerto.
Lance is right, and is in a much better position to know the circumstances of the professional ranks. No doubt he won fair and square at a dirty game.
Lets not fool ourselves though, the same issue is going on in T&F, we just don't have 3 week races where the athletes have to risk microdosing / boosting to maintain performance the whole time.
Lance did not win fair and square. Everyone is physiologically different. One rider could have a natural heamocrite of 42 and the other could have a natural haemocrite of 45. If they both perform at the same level when not doping, if they both take EPO and get their haemocrite up to 50, the rider with the natural 42% reading will destroy the rider with the natural 45% reading.
On the healing side of these drugs. I was taking HGH, Deca and EPO in the past and some of the effects are incredible especially HGH. About a month after starting to take it, The complexion of my skin was incredible and I didn't need contacts or glasses anymore for small print reading.
And by the way, EPO is already used to treat cancer patients after chemo to help create red blood cell growth after radiation therapy.