Floyd Landis: A sad individual

I was quite surprised that Lance has been implicated in doping again…I mean I thought we were over this a while ago. Floyd Landis has admitted to doping throughout his career and has said that Lance has also been opening a can of the Dopetizer.

Which to be honest, I don’t believe. As always! Maybe I want to believe.

I really do. Maybe I want to believe in good things in a world where we don’t believe anymore. Maybe for once I just want to think that someone did something without cheating. In a world where everyone is looking for an easy way to the top, maybe I want to believe that hard, honest work gets people to the top. I’ve always believed in cycling as the worlds greatest sport, and I wrote a piece nearly three years ago entitled “Tour De France — Why It’s Still The Greatest Race On Earth” (HERE)

Maybe for once I don’t want to question something, because there really is no question there. Maybe for once, all of us should believe. Like when we were kids, we just believed. We believed anything could happen. And the people who believe are still the worlds most successful people. No one got anywhere by not believing.

People age and stop believing and that’s why you must be like me…and be Peter Pan!

Lance has way too much to lose if he is caught doping. He is one of the most tested athletes in the world, and unless he is paying the people who make the systems that test the drugs, or working at the highest levels with the drug makers (While still training and running his Livestrong Foundation), then I really cannot believe that he has ever doped.

If you’re going to dope through 7 Tours De France and not get caught, well then you’re Houdini! I just really for once want to believe in something good and awesome, and Lance Armstrong has always been that belief. I’m sick of having to question everything in the world, I just want to believe in something just because it is amazing and good.

And for Floyd Landis to come out and say that Lance has used drugs is just a sign of a weak athlete, a loser who could never make it either due to his genetic make up or just because he was not willing to work as hard. At the level that those athletes are at, they all training as much as each other. It’s part genetics, part hard work and part science. Lance brought a new science to the sport. He perfected his equipment in wind tunnels, he trained in the snow, he trained while athletes like David Millar were our partying and drinking vodka. It’s that extra dedication that gives them those small extra percentages of advantage, and that’s what wins tours.

That’s what wins over fans across the world.

That’s what makes heroes.

That’s what makes Lance Armstrong.

And that’s what makes me believe.

And until we have mature (i.e not wanky ex drug abusing cyclists who initially lied about their drug use) people proving otherwise with absolute conclusive evidence, then I’ll remain a believer.

Because we need more of those in the world.

For Lances take on this, read THIS ARTICLE on Livestrong.com…handled nicely by Lance, loving it.