Lance Armstrong and baseball doping  Posted by Scott Wuerz on
January 18, 2013   I am shocked by the uproar surrounding Lance
Armstrong's admission that he used performance enhancing drugs
after years of lying about it.  Is anyone more surprised about
Armstrong than they were when Barry Bonds was finally trapped in
a web of lies.  Let's look at this from a wide angle:
Competitive international bicycling is a sport that has been
rife with doping scandals for decades. So, when you already know
that some of the best competitors in the field are using
performance enhancing drugs and then this dude comes along and
totally dominates the field for the better part of a decade --
no one can touch the guy -- how can anyone believe he's clean?
It's hard to feel sorry for people who believe is something that
is so obviously not true.  Like when Armstrong was winning seven
Tour de France titles, it seemed like everyone involved with MLB
was willing to look the other way and believe a fairy tale when
Barry Bonds was cheat