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Sunday, 28 October 2012 02:10

ED. Slowtwitch.com founder/Main Man Dan Empfield is a really bright guy and a great writer. Some will appreciate the magnanimity he displays in this article. Others, like our friend Stephen, will not.

By Dan Empfield

I don't know who introduced Lance Armstrong to performance enhancers. There are two likely suspects who come to mind, but they're my private guesses. I did not ask Lance when I visited him earlier this year at his home. It's not my business to know. He's not admitted to me that he doped. He is not happy with me that I don't any longer accept that he didn't dope. Now we don't talk.

Rewind to the summer of 1991, and Lance said something to me approximating, "Watch your feet; the floorboard's missing." It would be a classic today if it was restored, but his '60s era Volkswagen Beetle was a beater when he pulled up to my front door in it. He

Borysewicz, the Bela Karolyi of American cycling. Lance the triathlete had made the decision to try cycling and this was his pro debut.