The cleanest of the clean is Greg LeMond, not Lance Armstrong. Greg LeMond is now the only American cyclist to with the Tour de France. Greg LeMond has been a vocal proponent of clean riding and a vocal critic of Lance Armstrong.
During the height of Lance Armstrong's popularity, Lance used his control at Trek to shut down the LeMond line of bicycles to punish Greg for his continued public comments about doping.
No one intimately involved in bicycling was under any illusion that Lance wasn't cheating. It had been regularly coming out that his saved blood failed newer tests for doping and other irregularities.
Calling Lance the cleanest of the clean would be like calling baseball's Mark McGuire the cleanest of the clean. If you followed the sport (and saw his ridiculous head size), you knew he was not only cheating, but the best at it.
The cleanest of the clean is Greg LeMond, not Lance Armstrong. Greg LeMond is now the only American cyclist to with the Tour de France. Greg LeMond has been a vocal proponent of clean riding and a vocal critic of Lance Armstrong.
During the height of Lance Armstrong's popularity, Lance used his control at Trek to shut down the LeMond line of bicycles to punish Greg for his continued public comments about doping.
No one intimately involved in bicycling was under any illusion that Lance wasn't cheating. It had been regularly coming out that his saved blood failed newer tests for doping and other irregularities.
Calling Lance the cleanest of the clean would be like calling baseball's Mark McGuire the cleanest of the clean. If you followed the sport (and saw his ridiculous head size), you knew he was not only cheating, but the best at it.
/end of pedantry