What's a bloke got to do?
April 07, 2009

Lance Armstrong must get sick and tired of having his ethics and morals called into question by French Anti Doping Agency officials every other week.
Armstrong would have to be the most drug-tested athlete on the planet.
He is subjected to countless drug tests randomly by all manner of agencies from different countries around the world.
And under the rules set out by the World Anti-Doping Agency he has no choice but to let them take his blood, make him pee in a cup and now even take a chunk of his hair.
You would have to become fairly cynical about the reasons behind all the tests after a while.
And you can't tell me that these various agencies aren't trying to be "the one" to catch the great Lance Armstrong out.
There are a lot of them who are on a witch hunt.
They want to bring the man down.
The French are the worst.
Since Armstrong's miraculous return as a cancer survivor to dominate the Tour de France he has been the subject of so much scandal and slander.
The French crowds booed him as he rode to victory through the Pyrenees and on to the streets of Paris.
French newspapers do everything they can to try to bring him down, at one point they were caught going through his former team's rubbish trying to find anything dodgy they could to pin on him.
But yet they have forgiven and forgotten that their great national cycling hero Richard Virenque is a self-confessed cheat.
The man who has dominated the King of Mountains title of the Tour de France for so long was part of the notorious Festina team that left cycling in a spin after they were booted out of the Tour de France because they were caught with a car-boot loaded full of performance enhancing drugs.
So why would Armstrong want to cheat anyway?
What he has to lose now is far more valuable than any cycling honour or trophy.
The man quit cycling and has comeback, not to win more races or earn more money but to spread the word about cancer.
His aim is to increase the awareness around the world of organisations like Livestrong.
He is on a crusade of sorts to help people fight cancer, to help people become cancer survivors rather than cancer victims.
His integrity is at stake now more than ever before.
So again why would he want to use performance enhancing drugs to cheat the system?
Armstrong would have to be the most drug-tested athlete on the planet.
He is subjected to countless drug tests randomly by all manner of agencies from different countries around the world.
And under the rules set out by the World Anti-Doping Agency he has no choice but to let them take his blood, make him pee in a cup and now even take a chunk of his hair.
You would have to become fairly cynical about the reasons behind all the tests after a while.
And you can't tell me that these various agencies aren't trying to be "the one" to catch the great Lance Armstrong out.
There are a lot of them who are on a witch hunt.
They want to bring the man down.
The French are the worst.
Since Armstrong's miraculous return as a cancer survivor to dominate the Tour de France he has been the subject of so much scandal and slander.
The French crowds booed him as he rode to victory through the Pyrenees and on to the streets of Paris.
French newspapers do everything they can to try to bring him down, at one point they were caught going through his former team's rubbish trying to find anything dodgy they could to pin on him.
But yet they have forgiven and forgotten that their great national cycling hero Richard Virenque is a self-confessed cheat.
The man who has dominated the King of Mountains title of the Tour de France for so long was part of the notorious Festina team that left cycling in a spin after they were booted out of the Tour de France because they were caught with a car-boot loaded full of performance enhancing drugs.
So why would Armstrong want to cheat anyway?
What he has to lose now is far more valuable than any cycling honour or trophy.
The man quit cycling and has comeback, not to win more races or earn more money but to spread the word about cancer.
His aim is to increase the awareness around the world of organisations like Livestrong.
He is on a crusade of sorts to help people fight cancer, to help people become cancer survivors rather than cancer victims.
His integrity is at stake now more than ever before.
So again why would he want to use performance enhancing drugs to cheat the system?

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