Then seizing him, they led him away and took him into the house of the high priest…

I got a text message this morning that read, “Today is the crucifixion of Cancer Jesus.”

Statement From USADA CEO Travis T. Tygart Regarding The U.S. Postal Service Pro Cycling Team Doping Conspiracy

October 10, 2012

Today, we are sending the ‘Reasoned Decision’ in the Lance Armstrong case and supporting information to the Union Cycliste International (UCI), the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), and the World Triathlon Corporation (WTC). The evidence shows beyond any doubt that the US Postal Service Pro Cycling Team ran the most sophisticated, professionalized and successful doping program that sport has ever seen.

The evidence of the US Postal Service Pro Cycling Team-run scheme is overwhelming and is in excess of 1000 pages, and includes sworn testimony from 26 people, including 15 riders with knowledge of the US Postal Service Team (USPS Team) and its participants’ doping activities. The evidence also includes direct documentary evidence including financial payments, emails, scientific data and laboratory test results that further prove the use, possession and distribution of performance enhancing drugs by Lance Armstrong and confirm the disappointing truth about the deceptive activities of the USPS Team, a team that received tens of millions of American taxpayer dollars in funding.

Together these different categories of eyewitness, documentary, first-hand, scientific, direct and circumstantial evidence reveal conclusive and undeniable proof that brings to the light of day for the first time this systemic, sustained and highly professionalized team-run doping conspiracy. All of the material will be made available later this afternoon on the USADA website at www.usada.org.

Read the rest here: http://www.usada.org/cyclinginvestigationstatement.html.

Additional articles I recommend:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444799904578048352672452328.html?mod=WSJ_hps_LEFTTopStories.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/11/sports/cycling/agency-details-doping-case-against-lance-armstrong.html.
http://velonews.competitor.com/2012/10/news/usada-outlines-armstrong-evidence-in-case-file_256450.
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/usadas-reasoned-decision-on-lance-armstrong-follows-the-money-trail.
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/six-former-armstrong-usps-teammates-receive-bans-from-usada.
http://www.georgehincapie.com/news/Statement-from-George-Hincapie/.

I’m going to go ride my bike. Goodbye, Cancer Jesus.

Update: Hat tip to Gypsy for the link to the full doc (it wasn’t yet released when the post went live): https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9YzclxcT0NHNHNQTUV4MkpSSWc/view?pli=1&sle=true.

About big jonny

The man, the legend. The guy who started it all back in the Year of Our Lord Beer, 2000, with a couple of pages worth of idiotic ranting hardcoded on some random porn site that would host anything you uploaded, a book called HTML for Dummies (which was completely appropriate), a bad attitude (which hasn’t much changed), and a Dell desktop running Win95 with 64 mgs of ram and a six gig hard drive. Those were the days. Then he went to law school. Go figure. Flagstaff, Arizona, USA

153 Replies to “Then seizing him, they led him away and took him into the house of the high priest…”

  1. “put down the pitchfork, brother.”
    Why? It has finally gotten good after over a decade of this bullshit? I’m loving his have to face the music.

    I suggest you however give up the bromance, your honey lance was a turd, move on…maybe you could worship Ray Lewis, he got off free.

  2. “Why? It has finally gotten good after over a decade of this bullshit? I’m loving his have to face the music.”

    @guest— let go of the negativity, dude, you’ll be a happier person. My advice.

    “I suggest you however give up the bromance, your honey lance was a turd, move on…maybe you could worship Ray Lewis, he got off free.”

    I don’t know Ray Lewis— who does he ride for?

  3. So is Gregg LeMonde the premiere American cyclist now? Because he was clean? He never cheated? Heard that one before. They all cheated. That was cycling. All those who bitch and moan and moan and moan are easy. Armstrong could stay up drinking for 5 days and kill you on a hill. You all know it. If you’re looking for ‘pure’ you’re a little kid believing in fairy tales. Most people seem to be followers. The herd. Are there any winners?