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Reading this story on Outside Online earlier had me shaking my head and thinking "life really is stranger than fiction." It has been a really odd couple of months in the ongoing story of whether or not Lance Armstrong used performance enhancing drugs in his historic wins in the Tour de France. We all know the rumors and allegations have been swirling around for years and that Lance has been the subject of an on going investigation by a federal grand jury. Things came to a head a month back when Tyler ...
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from The Adventure Blog
A few days before I left for Chile a 60 Minutes segment ran on television that brought more allegations against Lance Armstrong and his use of performance enhancing drugs in the Tour de France . That story prompted me to write a rather long piece on where Lance could go next, and considering the story continues to evolve, I thought that it was only appropriate to do a follow-up. One of the major pillars of the 60 Minutes story, aside from the testimony of Tyler Hamilton, a former teammate of Armstrong, who
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from The Adventure Blog
As widely reported last week, Tyler Hamilton was on the CBS news show 60 Minutes over the weekend, where he recounted tales of performance enhancing drug use by Lance Armstrong and other members of the U.S. Postal Team which dominated the Tour de France a decade ago. If you missed the report, and want to catch-up, a transcript and several videos are available by clicking here . During the interview, Hamilton talked about the use of EPO, testosterone, and even blood transfusions that he, and his teammates,
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from The Adventure Blog
In an interview for 60 Minutes that is set to air on Sunday, retired professional cyclist Tyler Hamilton says that he witnessed seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong use EPO to preparation for the race in 1999, the year that Armstrong won his first Tour. Hamilton further alleges that the doping continued for the next two seasons as well, which was the length of his contract on the U.S. Postal Team. According to this story at ESPN.com , Hamilton is quoted as saying:"I saw (EPO) in his ...
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from Life in the Vertical
[...] I have done on the history and background of science like the Schehallion Experiment, Altitude, Nylon, Goretex and performance enhancing drugs. I am working on a new altitude piece, that I have dubbed [...]
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from Life in the Vertical
[...] the few posts I have done on the history and background of science like the Schehallion Experiment, Altitude, Nylon and performance enhancing drugs. I am working on a new altitude piece, that I have dubbed [...]
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from Life in the Vertical
[...] that you have enjoy the few posts I have done on the history and background of science like the Schehallion Experiment, Altitude and performance enhancing drugs. I am working on a new altitude piece, that I have dubbed [...]
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from The Adventure Blog
Yesterday we had an interesting little story on the Outside Blog that listed the Five Greatest Adventure Hoaxes of All Time . Today, they follow that up with their selection for the ten biggest stories in adventure for 2010. Unlike the list of hoaxes, I won't give them all away here, but suffice as to say, you can predict what a number of those stories will be. Amongst the big adventure news items that made the cut were Alex Honnold's various climbing efforts , which included a new speed record on a couple
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