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He has tested positive. For steroids. Which he claimed were for piles. A story which frankly ranks up there were Dennis Mitchell for plausability.
His being American has nothing to do with it. I don't like him because he is a liar and a cheat. As you well know the threshold for failing the EPO test is 50% hematocrit level. Do you really think a control-freak like Armstrong is going to not know what level of EPO ingestion relative to his blood-cell count is going to trigger a positive test?
It is the same as in any sport. The people who get caught are the Alex Sanchez's of the world not the Barry Bond's.
Lots of people give money to cancer research. So what?
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