I’m still shocked, stunned and puzzled by the way the Lance
Armstrong doping case is being concluded-really traumatized and shattered, and
can’t believe it and I feel for the cycling world because they are the biggest
losers for my partiality. How can the great Armstrong be stripped off his Tour
de France titles, without proof of doping?
It started a long time ago and adverse Lance has never failed
the drug test but it his colleagues who accused him of taking ‘drug
enhancing test’, but the man himself have never ever failed a drug
test, so how can he be stripped off his titles? Is this fair to him and sports
in general? What does it mean to the whole cycling family? For me it's poor
handling and maybe, just maybe-“personal agendas”.
Shouldn’t the player be found guilty first? And even after
that it has to be proved before he can be stripped off his achievements. He was
accused before and they fail to prove it and he rightfully walks free, what has
changed since then and now? I know it's unfair of me to take a side as writer,
but some things are just hard to defend, like this case to poor Lance.
To some extent I support his statement when he says, ‘after
what his family and himself gone through about this before, he won’t contest it
again, if they want to strip him-let them do so’. What more can he do now. As
far as I know, you are a suspect until proven guilty. So it's a shame for him
to be called a “CHEAT” but not proven that he is guilty entirely.
Can someone come out and prove-test it? No one. So why must
he be suspected and striped off, just like that? Landis was proven with his
doping positive test and he confessed having used the performance enhancing drug
and that's why he was stripped off his title, 2008. Alberto Contador has been banned
but not stripped off, because they still try to prove his guilt. So why to
Lance with a similar case being treated differently?
It's a shame to our sports, cycling in particular, we have
seen similar cases in soccer and players are proven and suspended and punished
accordingly, also in cricket etc. But such cases, we never heard of-being
punished without proven guilty, this is new. I think Cycling Committee is the
biggest loser on this one, shame to everyone involved. We will live to tell the
story…
By Fanele Mbuyazi
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