NOIRMOUTIER, France — Six-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong underwent a surprise doping test at his hotel on Friday afternoon, a control which raised questions as the American was the only rider to be tested.
The Texan was the only rider to be tested a second time, two days after blood testing on all 189 Tour starters.
But French sports minister Jean-Francois Lamour said on Saturday in Noirmoutier that his agencies were not behind the random test.
Ha! Whatta crock of shit!
What an incredible bunch of sore losers are the French. After SIX prior Tour wins and absolutely NO evidence of any doping after dozens or tests, they still cannot fathom how a lowly American could possible be that good. So they do everything they can to put him off his game.
Damn… what a low life group of people are the French. A totally classless group of trash.
Got your attention?
My TV news fix in Costa Rica is pretty much limited. Thank God for the Internet.
We get the Clinton News Network (CNN) in both English and Spanish and Fox, Fox gets most of my news viewing time as CNN is just so freaking pinko and biased I cannot deal with their constant flow of left-wing drivel.
Fox, however, lately seems to have taken an almost fixated view of this Natalee Holloway deal in Aruba. They have built nearly their whole news coverage on this case.
It is impossible to tune in for more than 15 minutes without an ALERT or some “BREAKING NEWS” on this poor girls disappearance. I feel terrible for this girl’s family.
CNN pretty much ignores the whole thing and there is almost no coverage elsewhere on the net.
What bugs me the most though is that although Fox is investing a ton of air time on her disappearance, they just don’t seem to “get it”, or if the do, they are not saying it aloud. I feel like the kid that was yelling “The king has no clothes!”.
What I mean by “get it” is THE GOVERNMENT OF ARUBA IS COVERING UP THE ENTIRE CASE BECAUSE THE PRIME SUSPECT’S FATHER IS AN ENORMOUSLY INFLUENTIAL PERSON AND A JUDGE-IN-TRAINING!
In the beginning, they were terrified of the loss of US tourism.
Now, they have strung this thing out to the point where few people care.
They do not want this case solved. They want it to go away!
This has been clear from the first week when the Aruban “police” allowed these miscreants (the suspects) the opportunity to get together, build a story, and impede the investigation. There seems ample evidence the father of the chief suspect has been advising his son on this issue.
What a joke this is, and shame on Fox for not getting nasty on this issue. Fox should be taking the lead on this since they have appointed themselves the Natalee Holloway experts!
The Aruban government, with Fox’s cooperation, has successfully stalled this case to the point where there is no righteous indignation and the story itself has withered from the mainstream news.
What WILL get the attention of the Aruban government would be a full-court press by Fox encouraging their viewers to boycott Aruba until this case is resolved. Aruba depends almost entirely on tourist dollars. Cut off those dollars and I can guarantee a change in attitude. Even the precious son of an Aruban official will not be worth the loss of an entire country’s economy. Fox did this with the French and the resulting boycott has cost France dearly.
I am not going to wait for Fox to lead this. ML and I are now planning our honeymoon. For the past few months, we narrowed our choices to Mexico and Aruba with Aruba taking a slight lead as seemed more “exotic” and sexy.
We made the decision yesterday to go to Mexico.
I realize our measley few thousand tourist dollars will not make much difference to the future of Aruba, but it makes me feel a bit better to know my dollars will not be going to fuel a corrupt government. To this day, I still will not buy products from France.
There are a ton of beautiful, tropical island destinations in the Carribean, not to mention Costa Rica and Mexico.
Planning your trip? Put a pass on Aruba until they get serious about this thing.
