SMU Law Grad brings down Lance Armstrong

[Water Pony]

A article in Bicycle magazine reports on Travis Tygart, SMU Law School graduate, who leads the USADA (U.S. Anti-Doping Agency) and directed the effort to strip Lance of his results since 1999. As a cyclist, I feel it is a sad, but necessary, day for Lance and his supporters. To quote the kid, who said to Shoeless Joe Jackson, "Say it ain't so, Joe!" Unfortunately, it is so.

http://bicycling.com/blogs/dailylance/2 ... g-_-tygart

[couch 'em]

Ridiculous witch hunt.

[PonySnob]

Yawn........

[Treadway21]

Good for him. Armstrong is a despicable human being. With or without drugs. IMO.

[goldenstang]

Despicable human being that has raised over half a billion to help fight cancer.

[Junior]

Despicable human being that has raised over half a billion to help fight cancer.

Cheating to win at sports doesn't make you despicable. If it does, then there are quite a few associated with this school that fit that bill. Given what he has done in fundraising, I'd say he's even.

[StallionsModelT]

Lance did a lot of great things leading Livestrong and spearheaded an organization that led to hundreds of millions of dollars to cancer research.

That said, from what I hear he was a HUGE rick with a p. Sometimes that comes back to haunt you.

[ponyboy]

He's still a hero to me. Never forget him staring down Ulrich.

[ponyboy]

Ridiculous witch hunt.

Amen.

[EastStang]

Sadly, the sport of cycling appears to be a sport where chemistry is more important than training. Knowing how to dope, when to dope, what to use to dope, is very important apparently in this sport. The man deserves a medal for eluding the tests for over a decade. If he'd been caught in year 1, he'd just be another cheater. Now he's an elite cheater.

[Treadway21]

Lance did a lot of great things leading Livestrong and spearheaded an organization that led to hundreds of millions of dollars to cancer research.

That said, from what I hear he was a HUGE rick with a p. Sometimes that comes back to haunt you.

this is more what I am talking about and how he treated his ex-wife and others who crossed or questioned him.

[ponyboy]

Personality contest aside he was as dominating an athlete as any.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdMdJAdzpYQ

[DanFreibergerForHeisman]

Credit for the fundraising and added awareness to a terrible disease.

But, the dude is still a [deleted] of the highest order.

[ponyboy]

So's Jordan.

[DanFreibergerForHeisman]

So's Jordan.

Doubtless.

The admiration for total [deleted] like Lance Armstrong, Michael Jordan, Deion Sanders, Tiger Woods, and the like just amazes me sometimes.

People really can be such sheep when swayed by the media and advertising.