One of the things I’ve been working on lately is keeping an eye on site stats – trying to understand how they work and all that.  Part of it is just trying to understand SEO, part of it is just my own idle curiosity.  It’s interesting to see just what takes the interest of people who stop by my humble musings.

A past post of mine recently moved across one of the “search terms” and has been displaying on my dashboard.  I wrote it back in August 2010, almost three years ago.  At the time, I was commenting on the latest set of allegations regarding Lance Armstrong’s doping.

By now, everyone has heard of the findings over the last year.  In exchange for reduced sentences, former members of USPS testified that there was indeed, a culture of doping present during Comeback 1.0 (99-05), and likely in Comeback 2.0 (09-10).  Lance has even admitted as much, without much of a sense of remorse.  The ASO has vacated his 7 victories, choosing not to re-assign a winner.  Johan Bruyneel is no longer involved in professional cycling.  Lance has also been banned from competing in any event which USADA has some oversight in.

There’s been numerous commentaries over the actions of the governing bodies – some say it was too much, others not enough.  I don’t really have any opinion on it.  ASO had a tough time, because let’s face it, in hindsight, it seems that half of the pro peleton was doping.  It certainly doesn’t help that Jan Ullrich (runner up several times) as well as Ivan Basso has been implicated in past doping practices (Basso even served a suspension for his association with Operacion Puerto).

I offered up a couple of thoughts as to what might happen should Armstrong’s “guilt” be proved.  To some extent, I feel prophetic.  😉Continue reading