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[NobleSavage]

This is the Bonascre AX3 Domaines:



These are the 10 best times:

1. Laiseka 22:57, 2001

2. Armstrong 22:59, 2001
3. Froome 23:14, 2013
4. Ulrich 23:17, 2003
5. Zubeldia 23:19, 2003
6. Ulrich 23:22, 2001

7. Armstrong 23:24, 2003
8. Vinokourov 23:34, 2003

9. Basso 23:36, 2003

10. Armstrong 23:40, 2005

I'm 99% certain everyone's time, except Frooms, was greatly enhanced. Bike weight isn't allowed below 6.8kg -- since 2000.

 

[Thomas II]

“If I was racing in 2015? No, I wouldn’t do it again, because I don’t think you have to do it again,” Armstrong said. “If you take me back to 1995, when it was completely and totally pervasive, I’d probably do it again.”

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/armstrong-i-would-cheat-again-2015-1#ixzz3jMEgq3tr

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

This is the Bonascre AX3 Domaines:

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These are the 10 best times:

1. Laiseka 22:57, 2001

2. Armstrong 22:59, 2001
3. Froome 23:14, 2013
4. Ulrich 23:17, 2003
5. Zubeldia 23:19, 2003
6. Ulrich 23:22, 2001

7. Armstrong 23:24, 2003
8. Vinokourov 23:34, 2003

9. Basso 23:36, 2003

10. Armstrong 23:40, 2005

I'm 99% certain everyone's time, except Frooms, was greatly enhanced. Bike weight isn't allowed below 6.8kg -- since 2000.

Well all of those names except Froome tested positive at some time, didn't they?

Besides, only dopers can go nearly 200 km in 20 or so minutes.

 

[NobleSavage]

“If I was racing in 2015? No, I wouldn’t do it again, because I don’t think you have to do it again,” Armstrong said. “If you take me back to 1995, when it was completely and totally pervasive, I’d probably do it again.”

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/armstrong-i-would-cheat-again-2015-1#ixzz3jMEgq3tr

Yeah, maybe. The have stuff like Repogen now which is a trademarked method of gene therapy to increase EPO. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repoxygen
This is an interesting journal article on the possible methods of gene doping in sports http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3731603/
That is just public info, who knows what is cooking in the old designer steroid labs.

More importantly, did you see the video at the bottom of the article you posted: "Victoria's Secret Models Hit The Gridiron In Their Sexy Super Bowl"

 

[Thomas II]

“If I was racing in 2015? No, I wouldn’t do it again, because I don’t think you have to do it again,” Armstrong said. “If you take me back to 1995, when it was completely and totally pervasive, I’d probably do it again.”

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/armstrong-i-would-cheat-again-2015-1#ixzz3jMEgq3tr

Yeah, maybe. The have stuff like Repogen now which is a trademarked method of gene therapy to increase EPO. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repoxygen
This is an interesting journal article on the possible methods of gene doping in sports http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3731603/
That is just public info, who knows what is cooking in the old designer steroid labs.

More importantly, did you see the video at the bottom of the article you posted: "Victoria's Secret Models Hit The Gridiron In Their Sexy Super Bowl"

#28 Doutzen Kroes

 

[jab]

what possible fulfilment can athletes get from knowing full well they acquired their achievement by cheating on their fellow competitors? I just don't get it.

money, and lots of it

 

[EricB]

what possible fulfilment can athletes get from knowing full well they acquired their achievement by cheating on their fellow competitors? I just don't get it.

Millions of dollars?

 

[EricB]

Some good replies, but I still don't understand the psychological motivation that makes them do it.

So money, the self created justification that everyone else is doing it, and the general drive to be the greatest are all reasons you can't understand?

And he calls athletes thick-as-shit.

 

[EricB]

Just looking up some info out of curiosity. The NFL didn't start testing for HGH until 2014. Hum, something that works better than steroids wasn't being tested in the NFL? Those 300lb guys would never touch it, I'm sure.

"You pretty much have to be a fool to test positive'' at a team facility, said Travis Tygart, the CEO of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency.

Tygart and other leaders of the anti-doping movement say testing alone will not find cheaters -- especially because the current test detects synthetic HGH in a person's system for only 48 hours.

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/11832255/nfl-hgh-blood-testing-setup-flaws

I think if I really dig into this I will find that the drug tests are mostly for show and the usage of PEDs are the rule more than the exception.

In the NFL you would be quite correct. And then look at the suspension times. Utter joke. There are guys who have never been tested. Random tests are not exactly random. Nothing like having the testers call ahead to set up parking passes and things like that the day before, so some guys can be conveniently absent.

USADA testing is another story. They actively try to catch athletes. Really, in some cases they go overboard.