What the.....? He was proven guilty, without a shred of doubt. Every one of his Tour de France wins was unclean. It was just not proven during his career, because everybody involved in the port did their best to cover up the fact that basically EVERYBODY was doing it.
absolutely. he manipulates, lies, and destroys people lives just to cover up his extensive doping scheme. as for LCW, he also technically doped and was caught. he certainly (or hopefully) didn't do any further despicable acts like Armstrong. however, he, as far as we know have no knowledge of the contamination, just bad luck and not thorough enough with checking his medications.
There's a movie on Armstrong and Walsh, the Irish investigative reporter who tracked him down. Coming out in a month on Sep 16, 2015. Mark the date. The Program http://m.imdb.com/title/tt3083008/
his new racket seem fantastic with green..hehe.. hopefully he can have a happy ending career.. cmon LCW!
Only thing between the title is CL... and his own mental strength. We'll see soon enough in a few hrs.
Never caught doping and for 15 years noone proved him wrong till he eventually gave up trying to defend himself against vultures. LCW is innocent because he says so. And because he has a fan following who worship him. And thats the reason why he got that very lenient 8 month ban instead of the usual 2 years. It would have been bad for the sport because of the `fans`. After 15 years we will hear LCWs story and how he systematically took performance enhancing drugs and the stuff will be revealed in movies and in books that will sell like hot cakes. Thank you the fans.
First of all don't compare LCW with Armstrong. Armstrong took genuinely performance enhancing drugs. Not all banned drugs are performance enhancing. A lot of the drugs are actually banned for the sake of athlete's health and legal reasons. For example cocaine(maradona) or crystal meth(agassi) actually worsens performance, not enhance it. They are purely euphoric drugs usually taken by depressed lot. Also a lot of the drugs can actually be cooked up with home ingredients. So it is indeed very possible to consume some of it without knowing. Dexamethasone is a recovery drug and it is generally accepted as non-performance-enhancing. In fact, as an anti-inflammatory drug, the only positive effect it can have on an athlete is that it can settle down the nerves a bit. Is that too much? I say make it legal for everybody. And in the absence of any evidence that LCW took it deliberately, we ought to give him the benefit of doubt. In fact I remember one french tennis player said that just make all drugs legal. That's an equal law for everyone. I guess he had a point.
Youre delusional. Armstrong took Doping to new, systematic heights. The fact no one caught him for such a long time doesnt make that any better. And LCW was not tested positive for EPO or HGH or anything - but for a basic anti-inflammatory often used in standard treatment. While it has no performance-enhancing qualities whatsoever, even its benefit in the recovery process (for an athlete) are questionable.
Basically, you can say this about any player in any sport. So, without further definitive and additive proof, this really looks like trash talk.
Always been a big Lee CW fan long before it became fashionable to be. So, disappointed. In previous WC editions or olympics its usually been the case that its been a narrow loss, sometimes not having that little bit of luck on the big points. Or maybe not coping with the pressure - i don't mean to say he should have won all of them or even most. I do thing he possibly should have won a couple though over the years. This was a surprise to me, i expected LCW to lose in 3 games tbh because CL has been on it all tournament and LCW has been grittily efficient rather than brilliant (except in the first game of the semi). Firstly, credit to CL and to his coaches. I remember him losing to Kevin Cordon, and getting ripped apart by LCW in a WC semi and thinking "this guy will never beat LCW and China are going to have a struggle in replacing Lin Dan". He was so one-dimensional and too slow. What I saw from CL today was a dynamic, muscular performance, great temperament, amazing speed round the court especially in the forecourt where LCW lost the net battle. And some outstanding shotmaking. Almost unrecognizable from the younger version. He read LCW shots once he settled into the first game and LCW was second best in every department today. In a perverse way, i think it might do LCW some good for his last shot at the Olympics. I think oddly enough he just needs to focus on being a bit more deceptive, as Chen Long is like a wall defensively - it doesn't matter how accurate, fast or steep you hit it, if he knows where its' going he'll get it back and he'll drive the thing viciously up the line and get you scrambling. The only ways are to simply outwork him which didn't work today, or to attack him with a lot of crafty disguised shots. Which isn't in LCW's nature as mostly, beating his other opponents is a matter of keeping the tempo nice and high, keeping the accuracy high and not being passive. So hitting metronomically accurate, high-percentage shots is what he does. Against CL, he needs another game plan. He can learn it. One more shot at glory now - better make it count
