WTC Announcement regarding Lance coming today..

Well, it's just a private contract, so they can waive any portion they see fit (this isn't something like a CBA, is it?).  They are probably just trying to figure out the best way to do it and save face.

I thought they were going to announce that his seat was too high and his water bottle placement is totally not aero. 

Huh.

I have had about enough of this crap with LA. I am neither a fan-boy nor a hater. I do beleive he doped back then but so did everyone else so it was still a fair race. I dont care. I would still support his foundation because I have heard from enough people and families about the good Livestrong has done for them. If he is guilty or not is irrelevent to me.

However, these witch hunts are just out of control and it is very apparent to me that they (pick any acronym involved in sports) just has some vendetta against Lance. Wasting time and (taxpayer) money to TRY to prove something that is inconsequential in the grand scheme and irrelevant to today. I just wish they would spend all the money on continuing to increase doping protocols for CURRENT athletes in all sports and not retired ones who last won something over 4 years ago.

This is the same with Roger Clemens. I mean really?!?! they are still going after him for perjury? You have already made his life a living hell for the last few years. At this point a guilty verdict might actually come as a relief to him. I would love to see the total costs of the BALCO investigation. Congress should go audit that because at some point with the way the US deficit is going someone needs to look at the big picture and start NOT spending money on stupid $h!t

Rant off/

You're on.  I am not disagreeing with you I just enjoy games of chance. 

-Chris

Side note: interesting, I saw today that WADA does in fact have an 8 year statute of limitations on doping violations.  And the USADA has now filed their case against him just before the start of the 2012 Tour.  Which would coincide with the 8 year anniversary of his final winning Tour.

Coincidence?

Edit: my bad forgot about Discovery Team on 2005.  But I think it's still likely they wanted to get this going while they still could.

LA is currently a professional athlete that is subject to the USADA, correct?  LA also had a little victory a couple weeks ago.

Yes but the point is they are going after him for stuff that happened waaay back. You want to come up with a new test for him racing now? then speand all the money you want. I just want them to focus on current events not history.

Lance to the IM France race director: Take that, you cheese-eating surrender monkey.

If he gets to do France he's going to have massive visibility in the world press, and so will WTC. Hmmm 

It's also interesting to me how quiet Macca has been through all of this.  I guess we haven't had a weekend or a race between the announcement and now, but you'd think he'd tweet "Lance just popped.  Guess I'll have to go to Texas to SMASH him." or something like that.

I think the other pros know that there's going to be much more attention on this sport with LA in it than not in it. 

Now if he gets to race in France and wins (don't kill me yet, I'm making a point), it'll actually get some time on ESPN and the rest of the major news outlets.  But the connotation they'll be making will be "Triathletes are cheaters just as much as cyclists" (again, not my opinion, just making a point).

I hope he's allowed to race and the USADA drops their charges sometime around October 6th so the attention peaks for Kona...

But I'm a realist so I can say it'll never work out so clear.

HAA HAA HAA

I'm certainly hoping he gets to race.

You know what they say though, there's no such thing as bad publicity.   If he gets to race in France then the ratings will be even higher and the international sports community will have to give big time coverage to the race.  Hmmm,

Dont they have anything current to charge him on? As I mentioned I dont believe he was clean but I could care less what someone wants to put in thier body. I can only control myself. Plus this constant dredging up of samples from years past just sucks. Why did it take so long? becuase they didnt have anything to test for it back then? Why not pull Hincapie's samples? Horner? Leipheimer? Hell, go grab Lemond's since you are digging up history.

I just think it is a giant waste of money and a public witch hunt. Sink that money into something useful for today's athletes...including LA. Test him all you want on his performance today.

As a lifelong cyclist it sometimes hurt to hear people talking of a sport I love and the first thing most people will say is it is full of drugs and dopers and they have never even see a race. They dont have a clue what riding a bike is about. Im all for fair play but honestly once something is over a year old does it really matter?

I"m sure it was pointed out in the other thread but they {usada} have said that they will be opening an investigation on him, not that there is one going on now.  Since the WTC says anyone under current investigation can't race, I'd think that would be a loop hole enough.  Plus they are not a governing body but a for profit business they might have another reason.  While I think he doped as much as the rest of the field when cycling, I'd like to see him race an IM and see what he can do.

or the WTC are wanting to tell us that the  recents pic's posted of employee's jumping out windows are either not true, or that they were jumping off the ground floor and are ok  

Macca hasn't been quiet about the subject.  He tweeted this yesterday.

Chris McCormack ‏@MaccaNow

Everyone wants to know my take on @lancearmstrong. Being banned for being "investigated" seems unfair to me. Let him race!!! Ban if guilty!

Interesting article on ST. I have a feeling they are going to change the rule. 

 http://www.slowtwitch.com/News/Armstrong_s_Ironman_Ban_Not_Necessarily_a_Done_Deal_2853.html

Sorry if this was already posted 

You have one? Willing to sell? :p Actually until last week, I needed it ... not the easiest thing to get here.

I would say so, too. It seemed very odd to me how quickly WTC reacted to the USADA notice.