OK, Floyd is guilty, by WADAs standards. I don't for a moment believe in their methodology. Everyone has an agenda and the lab and WADA have the agenda of proving someone guilty every so often to stay in business. That fact they are only policed by one another and that they are all on the same payroll is entirely comical. To me, the most important issues are not really related to Floyd. I love the way Floyd rides, I love the way he talks. I think he is real and I still believe he is honest.
My issues are...
- The cycling federations (primarily run by French and Swiss) are run, well, like French and Swiss. I believe they are honestly trying to clean up the sport and any conviction is a good conviction because they see it as a deterrent (more on that later). The other sports (football, soccer, basketball, hockey, golf, horse racing, etc) are run by more capitalist types like, um Americans, who are much more interested in selling tickets and merchandise then they are in a clean sport. If the entire Barry Bonds fiasco was not proof positive...There is no policing, the fines and suspensions are minimal and when confronted with the issue the leaders of the sport play it down because all they want is asses in the seats and money in the bank. Home runs put people in the seats. PERIOD
- There is no real deterrent to doping. First you must accept that the majority of pro athletes are dopers. The sheer number of athletes who have sports induced asthma is totally comical, staggering. Head over to your local muscle head vitamin shop and you will see shelves of synthesized crap that boosts the system in one way or the other. Really what is different from this crap then EPO or testosterone. I submit nothing. They are not natural (certainly not in the quantities one consumes them in) and they will all fuck up your system over time.
Eat a banana and a cliff bar and go ride your bike
