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Barry Bonds had his flaxseed; Rafael Palmeiro blamed tainted B-12 injections; and won’t it be fun to see how Roger Clemens mangles the language when he goes on trial next week for lying to Congress about his alleged steroid use? Maybe Clemens will again point the finger at his wife Debbie, saying his trainer supplied her with drugs to prolong youth, but not him. It's all rather bush league.
Baseball players are rubes when it comes to explaining how, often in their later years, they magically added miles per hour to their fastball or feet to their longballs, often while their tendons stretched to unbearable, unhealthy lengths. But when a cyclist is caught doping, he is invariably a supreme excuse-maker, and really, that is exactly what you’d expect from an athlete willing to descend mountains at neck-breaking speed. [...]
A kind of grubby cynicism greets those who now loudly accuse Armstrong, because both Floyd Landis and Tyler Hamilton have waded in the pool of ludicrous and emerged looking rather silly. Landis pioneered the Jack Daniels defense, saying consumption of whiskey caused synthetic testosterone in his body, but later admitted to using PEDs for most of his career. In explaining how alien blood might have found its way into his veins, Hamilton once floated the odd possibility of a "vanishing twin" from his days as an embryo.
Both excuses proved absurd, no easy accomplishment in a drug-drenched sport rife with absurdities.
Read more: Give cyclists credit for creativity as doping drama persists - - Sporting News
Baseball players are rubes when it comes to explaining how, often in their later years, they magically added miles per hour to their fastball or feet to their longballs, often while their tendons stretched to unbearable, unhealthy lengths. But when a cyclist is caught doping, he is invariably a supreme excuse-maker, and really, that is exactly what you’d expect from an athlete willing to descend mountains at neck-breaking speed. [...]
A kind of grubby cynicism greets those who now loudly accuse Armstrong, because both Floyd Landis and Tyler Hamilton have waded in the pool of ludicrous and emerged looking rather silly. Landis pioneered the Jack Daniels defense, saying consumption of whiskey caused synthetic testosterone in his body, but later admitted to using PEDs for most of his career. In explaining how alien blood might have found its way into his veins, Hamilton once floated the odd possibility of a "vanishing twin" from his days as an embryo.
Both excuses proved absurd, no easy accomplishment in a drug-drenched sport rife with absurdities.
Read more: Give cyclists credit for creativity as doping drama persists - - Sporting News
