Why americans do not believe that Lance Armstrong was doped?
91097
It is probably pride and that Americans don't understand a thing about cycling. Offcourse there is doping in cycling. But then is the question what is seen as doping. I mean it is not normal the tour the france to cycle everyday about 180 kilometers in the max. Your body must suffer it is not healthy anymore. So they will need something to keep their bodies healthy and keep on with everybody and perform perfect the next race. I know Lance does have an extreme VO max, and he has certain abilities rarely seen by people. But they will take something to keep their bodies healthy, and then is that doping too? Doping is everything what is on the doping list I know. But this line is thin. There is this Belgium doctor who has been wirting a book about it, what is doping. He was the doctor of the Festina team in 1997. So to say is Lance doped, just how you want to answer this question.
378207
I believe he did take some performance enhancing drugs to help assist his performances. The thing that leads me that way is cancer patients take a form of EPO to boost their red blood count to help fight the disease and I would find it hard to believe that with Lance's desire's to win that he would look away when given the opportunity. Cancer did help him though, he went from a super jerk to just a plain old normal jerk.
385994
I think it is because American teams are owned by individuals. I don't think they are sponsored.
1182229
I think they did it. A friend of mine directed me to lunaranomalies.com and they had some interesting theories, yet each of these amateur theories were disproved. Look at it this way. In 1969 the americans and the russians were locked in a desperate bid to get into orbit and ultimately the moon. "Journey beyond selene" by Jeffery Kluger brilliantly documented this. The russian premier publicly mocked the americans and their various failures at even hitting the moon with a basic rocket. Enter 1969 and the pictures of Aldrin and Armstrong on the moon. No comment from Russia. They didn't even televise it. If there was even a hint of evidence that it was faked, the russians would have been all over it like a rash. If it was faked they did a really good job. A secret like that could never be kept, and not one reputable scientist has challenged it. All we have are diehard and paranoid lay people looking for attention. If you look up Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin on the net you might find some hilarious footage of the day he left a conference to be accosted by one such person. He knocked him flat with one punch! Hilarious. Selene is the greek word for moon.
585820
Too many people are influenced by their personal geneology to support Team America. Sure, the United States of America is great and it is absolutely the nation of hope and dreams; it is the most diverse country in the world and everyone seeks refuge and freedom here because of that. as americans, i for one love the stars and stripes. however, we do not forget where we've come from and our race becomes a bigger issue than the soccer itself. race, racism, racial profiling..they will always be a big issue and will not cease to exist. alot of people root for their native country for pride and for bragging rights. it may sound pitiful, but its the truth and this is the messed up world we live in. So that is why alot of people do not support team usa.
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I think that there was no Spanish law against doping in cycling so there were no legal legs for them to stand on. They couldn't lawfully impose sanctions against the suspects.\n\nI can't understand why Saiz is back in cycling management. He should be banned but then again, he was bnever legally found guilty.
869540
He didn't take drugs, he just trained harder than anyone else.\n\nAn independent physiologist familiar with the study commented: “This study shows that long term training has a lot bigger effects than we thought. They followed Armstrong – a well-known hard trainer – and the changes in his efficiency over seven years are really quite amazing. We wouldn’t be surprised if some major physiological changes happened, but here’s a real quantified example.”\nHe added: “Generally there are two ways to improve efficiency: Train your maximum capacity to be very high, or train your sub-maximal capacity to be very efficient. In Armstrong’s case, he did both. In the lab they measured his performance against standard oxygen consumption and by the end of the study he was much more efficient utilizing the same amount of oxygen. But on the road,” he pointed out, “it means he can go faster and get more guys off his wheel.”\nEffect of cancer, therapy nil\nThe period that started when Armstrong was 21 and just turning professional and ending at age 28 with his first TdF victory, also included his cancer diagnosis, surgery, chemotherapy and recovery. About eight months after chemotherapy ceased (August 1997), Armstrong was tested in Coyle’s laboratory in the same manner as in his other four visits. The results showed that he “displayed no ill-effects from his previous surgeries and chemotherapy” and were in line with measurements expected from highly trained athletes during periods of detraining, Coyle added later.
1151932
There are many great moments in sports, but very few of them happened more than once.  Wilt never scored another 100 points, no one hits 70+ HR a year for several years, very few teams dominate a decade with championships, there are too many variables that have to be controlled for them to happen.\n\nThis is why I think that Lance Armstrong has accomplished the greatest feat(s) in sports.  He was a dominate rider( youngest world champion, TDF stage winner,) before over coming  terminal cancer to win the TDF (tour de france) SEVEN times in a row.  The TDF is the most physical, emotional, and mental challenge in sports.  Cycling has so many variables to it, its nearly impossible to control them.  \n\nIn addition how many of our sports "icons" raise the awareness level of a cause (Cancer) to the level he has, how many drop millions into the cause?  Answer:  Not a enough....Period.  \n\nLance Armstrong has accomplished the greatest feat(s) in sports, he has raised the bar for all that follow; to become a social icon for a cause and the most dominate sportsman in 10 year period.  No one else holds a candle to this!!
588376
Americans do watch F1 (although after the fiasco last year I don't know why).\n\nThere are so many motor sport disciplines in the US that F1 has a massive completion (unlike Europe) so it only gets a tiny audience (in % terms).
18725
Well, I am a cyclist and this is kind of cliche, but Lance Armstrong.  The man won Tour de France for the seventh time in a row.  A very tough event which covers three weeks, more than two thousand miles, with just two days "off" which are used to travel, and through the Pyrenees and French Alps!  He and other professional cyclists train many tens of thousands of miles each year, burning around about a thousand calories per hour, lots of pain to add.  The longest stage in 2005 was over 140 miles, and mind you, the day before that stage was also over 140 miles as well.  This is with no commercial breaks, time outs, half times, substitutions, or any other sort of break other than a crash if you are unfortunate to get into one.  They even have to eat during the course of the race!  And I could go on...  Lance has this event seven times.
386481
Floyd has a solid chance and probably the best shot of all U.S. riders.  As with all TdF's, it is largely dependent on the success of his team and the support that he receives from his team.  Floyd is a very good climber and a great time-trialist but cannot win alone.  (On a side note, look at how he positions his aero bars on his time trial bike.  He keeps the front bars angled up more than many other cyclists.  This is becoming more popular among triathletes/time trialists because of Floyd's success.)\n\nI think that this is a year for one of the Europeans to win it (Basso most likely) but would love to see Floyd take home the Maillot Juene.
45888
I think that we all want to see our heroes, in this case it is Lance for me, stick around for that one last season, that one more victory, but i think that it is also important for a professional athlete to know when to put the hat in the bag. Although I feel that he could have powered on to anoth tour, national, or even community cycling race, I also respect his decicion to quit when he did and was ahead, and to reprioritize his life with his cancer foundation, Cheryl, and the Kids. Even though there could have always been that one last season, that one last yellow jersey or victory, in my mind, Lance Armstrong will always be seen as the greatest cyclis t of all time! I'm proud of him for being able to give it up. Vive la Lance        -Willie
844441
They can't bare the thoughts that someone outside the USa does things better than them. And Americans, the real football is the one played with the FEET. The one invented in UK. In Europe.\n\nI have no idea why they like oval racing over F1, which is a proper motorsport. The pinnacle of motorsport.
663073
I agree that a large part of it is national pride.  I believe Oxbridge to be a better system than the US, simply because I went though it and enjoyed it more than I think I would have done in the US.  I'm sure Americans will say exactly the same thing the other way round.\n\nAmongst unbiased opinions (national newspaper rankings etc) there's little difference, and that's probably the most accurate assessment of the situation.
831099
That is a hoax.\n\n" In March 1983, the United States Department of State released a press statement for embassies and consulates in Muslim countries that attempted to dispel the myth noting that Armstrong had not moved to the country of Lebanon, nor converted to Islam."
140533
Armstrong seems steadfast by his retirement statements.  So with that in mind, I don't think we'll see him in any more professional racing.\n\nIn the meantime, it seems as though his longtime teammate and "lieutenant" George Hincapie is being primed to fill his shoes as team leader & frontman. \n\nI'd say look for Hincapie to be the man to watch in this year's Tour.
1153085
we don't..it's quite obvious that it isn't. If you're going to question Intelligence instead of saying "Americans" name one that you know believes it to be true and go from there.