August 23, 2005

NOUS ACCUSONS

The French, a lying bunch of slimy human beings, have done it again!

In 1894 it was wrecking the life of a respectable, loyal army captain named Dreyfus who happened to be both powerless to protect himself and a Jew.

Now they want to do it to a great sports hero, Lance Armstrong. The French, unable to win the Tour de France, honestly are now trying to steal Armstrong’s triumph by allegations, insinuations, rumors, and outright lies. Armstrong has won the Tour seven straight times. Now, a French sports magazine, L’Equipe, has accused him of using a substance called EPO—a red-blood growth drug for anemic people—in the race of 1999, Armstrong’s first. Forget that the company that owns the Tour De France is the same company that owns L’ Equipe, forget that that company has been trying to discredit Armstrong in one way or another since he began taking honors away from the French. Forget that there was no test for EPO in 1999 and it didn’t begin to be tested for until 2001. Forget that Armstrong has been tested before, during, and after all of his victorious races and never found to be using any drugs.

L’ Equipe alleges that it got hold of Armstrong’s urine sample of 1999, sent it to a lab and it came back positive for EPO. Of course they cannot prove what the chain of possession was over the past six years, or even whether EPO can be retained for so long without oxidizing and degrading. But for the French, those prancing snail-swallowers, it is enough to spoil, enough to make a discrediting accusation, to win their kind of sport. Now they can all relax and cherish the doubt that they have now cast on the outcomes of the last seven Tours de France. “You see,” they will say to each other at the café this winter, “Armstrong didn’t really win after all, he used drugs.”

But hold on. Another great champion of the Tour de France, five-time winner Miguel Indurain, says, according to Reuters, that these accusations against Armstrong are “part of a campaign designed to discredit the American rider….They have been out to get him in France for a number of years.” (Click HERE to read the rest.)

And don’t hold your breath waiting for France to tell the truth about this matter. It took 100 years for the French Army to tell the truth about the Dreyfus Affair. (Click HERE to read about the Dreyfus Affair.)