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Gosh! Wow! I am Gobsmacked!
That France's way of dealing with drugs testing in its major international event is to send round "a little guy with a backpack and no credentials" to his home address?
I'm not. If I'd have been Armstrong I'd have told him to fuck off.
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Gosh! Wow! I am Gobsmacked!
As soon as I saw the thread title, I knew what this was about.
Hopefully David Walsh and Kimmage will go to town on it.
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Rogin - it's an out-of-competition test, from St. Patrick's Day, in the (very aptly named) town of Beaulieu-sur-Mer. This isn't a Tour De France test, it's a standard anti-doping thing. And as Armstrong knows perfectly well, inconspicuous, low-key testing like this is the norm for two reasons.
Firstly, it's much more cost-effective, and there's no need for large troupes of colourful and well-advertised testing teams, particularly when athletes will complain it violates their privacy. Secondly, it makes it much harder for cunts like Armstrong to know they're in the area and move on.
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I had never heard of labs or governments doing drug testing
I wish they'd got him clearly and unambiguously, though. This will help to erode the legend, but isn't enough to explode it.
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Worth pointing out that he did provide the samples (including blood and hair) and that they were all negative.
I tend to think that nothing short of being caught in broad daylight with needles in both arms will ever "explode" the Armstrong legend for those who believe in it.
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