Author: Jay Rinde
Date: 14:43:57 07/30/01
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On July 30, 2001 at 17:10:59, Dann Corbit wrote: >On July 30, 2001 at 16:37:24, Andreas Schwartmann wrote: > >>On July 29, 2001 at 15:32:30, Peter McKenzie wrote: >> >>>Surely one of the most inspirational sports people ever. >>> >>>http://www.msnbc.com/news/606398.asp?cp1=1#BODY >> >>Surely one of the best doped users ever? You can't win the Tour de France >>without usage of illegal substances. It's been on wide display 2 years ago and >>nothing has been improved since. Everybody just stopped talking about it: The >>show must go on, that's just the american way of handling things. Too bad, but I >>don't ever believe again in any sportsman's honesty. Wherever it's big bucks, >>it's big drugs as well. > >Let's cheer the losers then. Because we have on good authority that you can't >win without cheating. > >There is the long line of cheaters. After all, we have solid assurances that >you cannot win without cheating, and EACH of the following has won more than >once: > >Andre "Acid" Leducq >Antonin "Mainliner" Magne >Bernard "Hash" Hinault >Bernard "Bennies" Thevenet >Eddy "Marijuana" Merckx >Fausto "Crack" Coppi >Firmin "PCP" Lambot >Gino "Heroin" Bartali >Greg "Opium" LeMond >Jacques "Angel Dust" Anquetil >Lance "Crystal Meth" Armstrong >Laurent "Shrooms" Fignon >Louision "Payote" Bobet >Lucien "Dweebidge" Petit-Breton >Miguel "Steroids" Indurain >Nicolas "Luteinizing Hormone" Frantz >Ottavio "liposome-encased hemoglobins" Sottecchia >Philippe "Ephedrine" Thijs >Sylvere "Testosterone" Maes > >Do we need any evidence for these assertions? >Of course not. We can try and convict them on this basis alone: >"I don't think they could do it without." I don't think he said anything about cheating. He just said they can't win without using drugs. This might be the case, I don't know. But if they all used drugs that might make things equal, depending on the drugs. I wonder if a GM used drugs it would help him beat computers. Or do computers use drugs? Life is so complicated!
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