Well, LA won his AG.. (Page 2)

Because you need to be juiced out of your gord to play golf? 

Here's a tip; next time you see a thread title that references Lance, don't click on it.

Incorrect.  When Lance decided not to go to arbitration, he accepted that USADA could PROCEED with the case to propose sanctions.  The sanctions did not happen just because he told them he wouldn't fight them in the case.  It could result in *NO* sanctions being placed on him. 

Herein lies the problem.  You really can't compare a CAS arbitration panel or anything USADA/WADA does to our legal system.  The two are very different entities.  Our legal system is innocent until proven guilty.  WADA can basically do whatever it wants so long as it's not "arbitrary and capricious."  And even then, they get away with a lot.

My take?  Good on the RD for not giving in to a decision clearly formed from a witch hunt.  I'm not saying Lance did or didn't dope.  But I am saying that someone clearly had a vendetta against him.  It would be more worth it to use this time and energy against current cyclists instead of against someone whose last TdF victory was 7 years ago.

This isn't a professional race.  It is just an amateur race.  Whether you feel the Ping pong example is absurd, the intention behind it is exactly what you are professing. 

Since you feel that he should not be competing professionally, or even as an amateur, I would sure hope that you define for the rest of us what, in your mind, you feel the "line" should be for lance. 

Until you do that, we are going to have to assume by your statements that you are saying Lance should never be allowed to put a race bib on?  Are you proposing that every race director should monitor their rosters to ensure no "Lance Armstrong" thumbs their starting line?  If not, please clarify, because it *really* sounds like that is what you expect.

before reading the tyler hamilton book and the from landis to lance book I had never given doping much thought.

Sounds like the late 90's were a rough time to be a pro cyclist.

I wonder how clean tri is today?

So if I were to present to the RD a receipt of one of my competitors that visited a "Low T" or "Bio-identical Hormone" center, would there also be a moral obligation to prevent that person from competing in amateur events? Curious as to where the line is drawn.

Lance feels the USADA is biased and thus refused to go to their arbitration process.  It's the equivalent of not showing up to your own trial.  USADA will certainly drop the hammer on him.  But the UCI and WADA may disagree due to USADA ignoring its own statute of limitations.

Who is roided out in golf on the PGA tour?

Ahhh the whole he fights cancer argument.  I get it. I really do.  The guy really does wonderful things with his foundation and touches many lives and it is great that he continues to do so.   This however has nothing to do with weather he doped or not.  And just like my previous post, the only reason he gets any attention at all is because of the doping issue, 

Check links in my prior post.

I'm never good at predictions, but my gut feeling is he'll get a slap on the wrist.  Because of the statute of limitations, and keeping in line with punishments already dealt out to other riders, it'll probably be something like an 8 year ban backdated to his last Tour win.