This Day in Doping: Lance, Vaughters, Does doping matter? and football players

Paul Andrews, BI editor — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:32:16 +0000

Jonathan Vaughters made a careless comment about Lance Armstrong, who tweeted revenge. We like to see Lance mad because it makes him a better cyclist. Perhaps he will stick Vaughters’ comment on his top tube. Every time his head starts to sag a bit from fatigue, he will read it there and all hell will break loose. If he does go to glory in the Tour de France 2010, Lance will have Jonathan in part to thank.

But some perspective is in order.

Lance and Vaughters are former teammates, so there’s that history. Then, a couple of years ago, a Vaughters IM about potential doping in the Tour wound up in a lawsuit involving Lance and got widely circulated.

In cycling circles, the word is that so little love is lost between Lance and Vaughters you couldn’t find it with the Hubble Telescope.

Even so, Vaughters shows he has lost little of his cycling form, at least when it comes to backpedaling … a bit, anyway.

To be continued, to be sure.

Bicycle.net: Does it really, in the overall scheme of things, when the universe is shrinking and expanding … does it really matter if cyclists cheat?

Cyclelicio.us: Judging from hit counts, cycling is way more drug-drenched than, say, pro football. Which we all knew, right? I mean, why would football players, starting in middle school, ever take steroids or whatever? What would there be in it for them?

BikePure.org: Anyone up for gene doping?

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This Day in Doping: Lance, Vaughters, Does doping matter? and football players