United States Anti-Doping Agency Details charges against Lance Armstrong

[Popi]

George Hincapie was a teammate of Lance Armstrong for eleven (11) seasons: 1994 –1996 (Motorola), 1998 – 2005 (USPS/Discovery Channel).

Lance Armstrong has called Hincapie a “great friend” and “true-blue, like a brother to me.”

To date, USADA has been unable to find any published criticisms of George Hincapie from Lance Armstrong.The career of George Hincapie has been tied to that of Lance Armstrong like no other cyclist. Hincapie was the only cyclist who was with Armstrong on each of his seven (7) Tour de France winning teams.

Armstrong credits Hincapie as “one of the most accomplished men in American cycling” and there can be little doubt his most noted accomplishment was being a loyal lieutenant to Armstrong as the USPS team ascended to the pinnacle of the sport.

Thus, Hincapie had very much to lose in coming forward to present evidence against Armstrong.Yet, as explained below, Hincapie has testified that he was aware of Armstrong’s use of EPO and blood transfusions.

He reports that Armstrong even provided EPO to Hincapie for Hincapie’s own use.

Hincapie explains how he, like Armstrong, was a client of the doping doctor Michele Ferrari who incorporated EPO and blood doping into Hincapie’s training program.

And, Hincapie admits that he participated in the USPS/Discovery Channel blooddoping program.

A close friend of Armstrong and a key member of his team, Hincapie was in a position to know a great deal about what Armstrong was doing throughout the period from 1994 through 2005.

As Armstrong wrote:“There have been times when I’ve practically lived out of the same suitcase with George Hincapie. In cycling we’re on the side of a mountain for weeks, in small hotel rooms, sharing every ache, and pain, and meal. You get to know everything about each other, including things you’d rather not.”

As indicated in his affidavit, Hincapie remains loyal to Armstrong. While Hincapie felt compelled to tell the truth to USADA, it was clear in discussion with him that he had no axe togrind and still thought highly of Armstrong’s abilities as a cyclist and ability to overcome adversity.

However, what Hincapie also knew about Armstrong and what he has testified to in intimate detail is Armstrong’s immersion in the doping culture on the USPS/Discovery Channel teams.

Hincapie had no doubt that Armstrong doped and therefore no one else should either.

Spin This You Bracelet bytch.

 

[FaTaL]

The story goes they use to drive 20+ miles away from the hotels they were stayin (could of been even further) to dump all the syringes and other stuff in bins so they wouldnt get caught.

i would burn it if it was me

 

[Kunty McPhuck]

i would burn it if it was me

Well them goin out that far, they can say, that they were out doin recky for the next days stage. Dont know how you can explain, why you startin a fire for breh. Plus at the time they were doin it, the French Police, TdE organisers etc where all on the case of findin teams doping after what happened in 98

 

[Formerly known as...]

Yet....with all this he still never failed a drug test!!

I respect his swag for what it looks like blatantly taking drugs and not ever failing a test. Dude is retired and caked up, not an issue

 

[Saint1]

And I can pull up evidence pointing out my beliefs.

Exactly what does that prove?

How do you discount the increase in funding to LiveStrong after he was stripped?

I can point to dollars.....in the millions.

• By 3:30 p.m. Friday, Livestrong had received donations from 411 contributors, almost 10 times as many as Thursday, which had 42 donors.


• The Livestrong foundation's CEO, Doug Ulman, told ESPN on Friday night that unsolicited donations were up almost 25 times as compared to Thursday.


• A Livestrong spokesperson said last Saturday the foundation received four gifts totaling $350. So far on the Friday and Saturday since the sanctions were announced, the charity has received 1,461 donations for a total of $148,950.


this isn't including the wristbands which sell for $1 and tickets to events and races. That's where the money comes from
point to those millions again

 

[thernbroom]

Liking cycling even matters

 

[The Frozen One]

Lance don't care, he off that donation money

 

[STEVE]

i'm a white cyclist... fukk lance armstrong

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

For some reason my tv is on Mike &Mike and white privilege is such a great thing. Listening to Greenberg try to excuse what he's done and validate that by all the goodwill he's done w/ Livestrong is just crazy. White folks are living in fantasy land on this topic. Never beat the race drum but that was too much take

 

[THE K-MAN]

damn NIKE terminated there contract with Lance

 

[Grifter]

Him being who he is is why so much was donated to the Livestrong foundation, but just because he up fukked personally is no reason for the business to suffer.

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

Him being who he is is why so much was donated to the Livestrong foundation, but just because he up fukked personally is no reason for the business to suffer.

But for him to build the brand and raise monies on some "I defeated cancer and so can you" steez and vehemently deny all accusations with corroborating witnesses and insurmountable evidence stacked against him is borderline fraud....shyt it is fraud. This is just going to be a situation where the difference in opinions/convictions will be 50/50

 

[FaTaL]

Lance keeps winning

 

[Sam Peel]

 

[*Hulks Up*]

Lance keeps winning

Sports history will be kind to Lance. Yeah, 2012 for him will be rough but 5-10 years from now no one will remember him as sports biggest cheater.