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Positive impact? Everyone I know sees professional cycling as a sport of who has the best doping technique without getting caught. It’s not a sport of pure skil

by nojvek 9y ago

Positive impact? Everyone I know sees professional cycling as a sport of who has the best doping technique without getting caught. It’s not a sport of pure skill. He is the person who ruined cycling for the rest of the world. Tour de France no longer holds the respect that it used it. It’s like professional body building now. Everyone dopes, the bodies are no longer natural and going into freak category. Tons of heart attacks and we’ve accepted it’s the price of the sport.

ksk 9y ago
>It’s not a sport of pure skill. Depends on what you mean by 'sport'. Only wordrecords being broken may require doping. Competing at elite levels in any sport, including cycling, requires immense talent, perseverence and skill. Not to mention winning the genetic lottery (depending on the sport). >Tons of heart attacks and we’ve accepted it’s the price of the sport. That sucks, but which sport is without injury? Baseball pitchers get their arms jacked up, basketball players get their knees messed up, football.. no comment, MMA no comment..
stagger87 9y ago
Bodybuilding, football, baseball, track and field, olympic wrestling, olympic weightlifting, basketball, cycling. Armstrong was hardly the first to dope in cycling.
- Judgmentality 9y ago
  > Armstrong was hardly the first to dope in cycling. I don't think he's claiming he's the first. I think he's claiming he's the worst.
walrus01 9y ago
> He is the person who ruined cycling for the rest of the world. Tour de France no longer holds the respect that it used it. One could have said that about the 1998 tour de France and the massive doping scandal. What Armstrong did was popularize road cycling in the early to mid 2000s for the American domestic market. Most of the benefit ultimately went to bike manufacturers and accessory sales. Look at the growth in sales for Trek (inextricably linked with Armstrong during this period, and LA is a trek shareholder). I don't think it it considerably more or less popular in Western Europe than it has ever been. Nuat about the same.

by nojvek 9y ago

ksk 9y ago

>It’s not a sport of pure skill. Depends on what you mean by 'sport'. Only wordrecords being broken may require doping. Competing at elite levels in any sport, including cycling, requires immense talent, perseverence and skill. Not to mention winning the genetic lottery (depending on the sport). >Tons of heart attacks and we’ve accepted it’s the price of the sport. That sucks, but which sport is without injury? Baseball pitchers get their arms jacked up, basketball players get their knees messed up, football.. no comment, MMA no comment..

stagger87 9y ago

Bodybuilding, football, baseball, track and field, olympic wrestling, olympic weightlifting, basketball, cycling. Armstrong was hardly the first to dope in cycling.

Judgmentality 9y ago
> Armstrong was hardly the first to dope in cycling. I don't think he's claiming he's the first. I think he's claiming he's the worst.

walrus01 9y ago

> He is the person who ruined cycling for the rest of the world. Tour de France no longer holds the respect that it used it. One could have said that about the 1998 tour de France and the massive doping scandal. What Armstrong did was popularize road cycling in the early to mid 2000s for the American domestic market. Most of the benefit ultimately went to bike manufacturers and accessory sales. Look at the growth in sales for Trek (inextricably linked with Armstrong during this period, and LA is a trek shareholder). I don't think it it considerably more or less popular in Western Europe than it has ever been. Nuat about the same.