Here it is. The whole list. Not everyone ever on USPS Cycling Team, but every rider who joined Lance in "his" race in the 7 years he won it.
If, in fact, Mr. Armstrong did performance enhancing drugs, an intellegent adult would assume that the people on the team might've known about it. Furthermore, in a team sport like cycling, if Lance would do anything to win, a safe assumption might be that those around him would cheat as well- perhaps under pressure from "the boss".
As I've said in the smaller posts (now absorbed into this one post)- I have no axe to grind here. I don't get "good vibes" from Lance's personality, but I don't particularly care if he's guilty or not.
I will say that I don't think USADA has any ability to "take away" his TdF titles- that would require the UCI (the worldwide cyclists' union) or the ASO (the owners of the Tour). The USA making our own "declaration" is typical of us- but that doesn't represent the whole world.
Still, with this all over the news, I want to put out there some semi-substantiated facts. Hence this list.
There are more innocent riders than convicted riders. But not by a landslide.
USPS/Discovery @ The TDF: 1999-2005
Frankie Andreu - Admits using EPO.
Pascal Derame
Tyler Hamilton - Admits using EPO, failed blood doping test. Stripped of Olympic gold medal.
George Hincapie - Admits using EPO to USADA.
Kevin Livingston - named in Michele Ferrari documents. Otherwise, nothing.
Peter Meinert Nielsen - tested positive for doping in 1993
Christian Vande Velde- Told WADA he did EPO.
Jonathan Vaughters - Admits doping: NYT editorial story in 2012.
Viatcheslav Ekimov
Benoit Joachim - positive for Nandralone in 2000.
Cedric Vasseur - arrested with other Cofidis riders in 2004. (including Millar who admits EPO)
Roberto Heras - Positive for EPO in 2005 Tour of Spain.
Steffen Kjaergaard- admitted to EPO in October 2012.
Victor Hugo Pena
Jose Luis Rubiera- Landis claims he took blood transfusions in 2004 TDF.
Floyd Landis - admits doping, banned in 2006.
Pavel Padrnos - arrested in the 2001 San Remo doping raids for illegal diuretic.
Manuel Beltran - Caught for epo in 2008
Jose Azevedo
Benjamin Noval
Yaroslav Popovych- In 2010, his house was investigated by police, but no conclusive evidence.
Paolo Savoldelli
Hey, they missed me!
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