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While Lance Armstrong was racing he tested positive seven times, but was let off the hook on technicalities, not all valid, each time. This was well known at the time, but few journalists mentioned it. As far as I know, among the few with the courage to mention it, none said “therefore he is cheating” or said “therefore he was cheating”.

During the years Lance and The US Postal Service team were winning The Tour de France year after year it was said that the team specializes in winning the team time trial (race against the clock) events that were part of the tour. As a former racer I wondered how that could be, as that event arguably does not require special skills different from the skills required for other events - probably fewer skills are required. I strongly suspect that they won those events with a lot of help from electric motors hidden in the bicycles, probably within the “disk” (streamlined) rear wheels. Maybe motor doping helped Lance in his other events as well.

Bo Keely adds:

i remember reading & studying something similar from you before. or, it could be that the electric clocks were fixed. a guy with a top hat used to walk through las vegas casinos & a device in the hat triggered jackpots to his associates. lance armstrong was the marty hogan of bicycling. people supported his cheating because they wanted a hero, and because his sponsors had so much invested in him.

Pamela Van Giessen writes:

The human animal craves heroes so we will go to a lot of lengths to support the illusion. Because admitting that heroism is an act, not a personage, is almost like refuting the existence of god.

Good people can do bad things and bad people can do good things. Too bad we have such a hard time wrapping our heads around this.

Laurel Kenner agrees:

Brilliant insight, Pamela. The idea is hard to embrace because it means confronting our own bad deeds. We all want to see ourselves as good people.

Nils Poertner comments:

in Vedic culture there is something like Maya- the fog …that we see through the world - everybody has a fog around him/her so we never meet - we just see through this fog…and some are more caught up in Maya than others.


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