LANCE ARMSTRONG ADMITS TO DOPING "ONE BIG LIE"
Former professional cyclist Lance Armstrong told the world Thursday evening that he used performance-enhancing drugs to win seven Tour de France titles.
The 41-year-old was accused last year by the US Anti-Doping Agency (Usada) of what it called "the most sophisticated, professionalised and successful doping programme" the sport had ever seen.
Armstrong, who has been stripped of his seven Tour de France titles, has up to now vehemently denied dope allegations.For more than a decade, Armstrong dared anybody who challenged his version of events to prove it. Finally, he told the tale himself after promising over the weekend to answer Winfrey's questions "directly, honestly and candidly."
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Now, have a look to the picture below. During the last three decades 8 different cyclists (17 titles!!) were punished and stripped of their Tour the France titles.
Now, have a look to the picture below. During the last three decades 8 different cyclists (17 titles!!) were punished and stripped of their Tour the France titles.
What do you think about it?
I think the desire to win above anything leads them to doping.This, makes a mess of a sport like cycling, so I think it´s wrong.
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ResponderEliminarI think that cycling is a great sport, but many cyclists have been doped and it's bad for all sports and I think that is a mistake to say that one of the best athletes in the history has been doped although it's true, because for many people he was an idol and new sportsmen might think that doping is necessary to win.
ResponderEliminarIn my opinion, it's really difficult to understand why US Anti-Doping Agency hasn't found the drugs in Lance Amstrong's body. Lance Amstrong has done a terrible mistake that he will never forget in all his life. If he goes to prison, it would be fair because you never have to take drugs ,it doesn't matter the reason, you put in danger your life and your sport career.With this behaviour, he has cheated himself and all the people who followed him.
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ResponderEliminarI think that a lot of cyclists have been doped because they would like to be better at this sport but when they take drugs they risk their health and their awards, so this company Anti-Doping has to watch over this cyclists before the competitions for secure the good performance of the tournaments.
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ResponderEliminarI think that It is a really bad new for the cycling and for sports in general, because Armstrong has played with the illusion of people and with all of children that saw in him a hero. I think that you mustn't take drugs, because it's very important to be a good sportsman without using drugs, because that is the way to be important in the sport that you love, and you will be never remembered as the sportsman that needed drugs to win, like Armstrong.
ResponderEliminari think that it is a really bad new but i don´t give significate because in this years only one or two person don´t used drugs and physically are imposible win seven tours and it isn´t the moment to talk about true, that must have been resolved in his day not today .
ResponderEliminarit's a shame that many cyclists have had to resort to drugs to win trophies because it makes a cycling history is based on lies. I think that from now on, almost any cyclist won't dope because thanks to new technology, they can tell if someone has been doped or not.
ResponderEliminarI think the punishment is correct; but there are a lot of cyclits who do the same. Al of them for the same reason: win. I think it is wrong.
ResponderEliminarMªPaz 3ºC
Well, there's no escaping the fact that plenty of athletes up until now have taken drugs to improve their skills while practicing sport. It's a pity to see how someone that started working so hard to achieve his goals in life, stupidly ended up falling into the trap of doping. And what for? To win.
ResponderEliminarLance Armstrong made us believe that he had put all his effort to get to the top, but he was just hiding behind his own lies. Now he's gone from being a hero to a letdown. I hope he gets what he deserves, even though it's a little bit too late.
Seriously, is winning worth the risk of damaging yourself and your career? I don't think so. Success is not all about winning, it's a matter of loving what you do.
I think Armstrong is one of the biggest liars of sport because it was considered the best cyclist in the history of cycling for having won seven Tours de France that it was something very hard to do and that Armstrong has shown that it can get by using drugs.I think that cycling is a great sport but it is a sport full of liars who use drugs to win.
ResponderEliminarI think drugs are very bad for health and you can win without drugs.
ResponderEliminarA lot of cyclist have been doped beacuse they would like to be better than the rest.
This has been a disappointment to some people.
Irene Miguelez Morán. :DD
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ResponderEliminarI think that cycling is a nice and healthy sport, and when somebody start to compite in the elite with professional people, the person try to trascend himself or herself every day, and it is unfair that somebody use drugs or something similar to improve his or her performance and win the tour, the giro... I don't know how he had not been caught before and didn't allow him or her to competite more. I think that if somebody has been doped, he broke the essence of the sport that is to have fun; it is very unfair to the rest of the people, and it only harm yourself.
Javier Luceño Sánchez 4º A
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ResponderEliminarLance Armstrong only thinks in be famous and he used drug to win the seven tours. I think that if he didn't use drug he never win the seven tours. A lot of sportmen use drug to improve his/her performance and win a lot of trophy, I think that they have to do something to stop this type of behavior.
ResponderEliminarJorge Luceño 4ºA
Cycling is a sport in wich many winners have cheated. Primarily the cyclists want to win, then they consume drugs. Lance Armstrong was the idol a lot of people but now, he has disappointed them. The best part is that he has told the truth.
ResponderEliminarHe is a disappointment for the cycling's world. Armstrong was an idol for me, but now I think that he's a cheater.
Jaime Corchado Alegre 3ºC
Cycling is a hard sport and it requires to be fit, so there are cyclists who work hard to win tours and there are others cyclists, like Amstrong, who prefere to take drugs. Doping is unsporting, cyclists must win tours by themselves. Amstrong took drugs, as a consecuence, he have a lot of problems. At least he has told the truth, but he has disappointed a lot of people.
ResponderEliminarI think that when someone is doped, he tries to cheat other teanmates, because if you want to win you have to train hard. Anti-doping's agency puts good punishments to the cyclists who are doped, and there are cases that have not been investigated still. They should test to the cyclists before every competition, to insure itself that they are not doped, since there will be many cyclists who do it.
ResponderEliminarIcíar Albarrán 3ºA
I don't know how he had not been caught before and didn't allow him or her to competite more.
ResponderEliminarA lot of sportmen use drug to improve his/her performance and win a lot of trophy, I think that they have to do something to stop this type of behavior.
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ResponderEliminarI think that the Cycling is a hard sport, so it need to be fit. There are many cyclists who work to win tours but Armstrong for example prefered to take drugs. So we must take stronger measures.
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ResponderEliminarCyclists want to be the best in their sport, a very good cyclist have to do a lot of sport every day, because they must be in fit,but they don't want to do it, because it is very hard, so they take drugs.
I know that cycling is a very difficult sport, because they must be in fit, because if they are not in fit, they cannot compete in races.
But It is unfair that a lot of cyclists have many trophies and Tour, because they took drungs during the competition.
María Luceño Sánchez 4º ESO
I think that it is necessary to take more measurements against the doping, because it is not just that while some try to win straining, others without straining as Armstrong obtain the prizes. The cycling is difficult and hard because the cyclists must be in form to be able to compete.
ResponderEliminarMaría Ávila.
I think that dopping is a bad way to win a title in any sport, and nobody should be doped before an important competition like this Tour.
ResponderEliminarI think it's okay that all these cyclists have lost their titles and trophies because they doped during the competitions, because they didn't train as hard as they must. Cycling is a difficult sport, but dopping is'nt the solution for winning competitons. Drugs al also harmful to health.
Ana Berrocal Vaquero, 3º D.
Cycling is a nice and universal sport, it practiced by everybody from young children to older people. It's easy and you can do it like a hobbie or a healthy sport but you can become professional and start to compete in important competitions, such as Tour de France. Competition is good, it is in all and each sports, I think that it is a way of motivating players. Competitors want to win but sometimes the desire to win leads them to cheat, as doping. Recently, the cyclist Lance Armstrong admitted that he used performance-enhancing drugs. In my opinion, he made a great mistake but it isn't only affect him, it also affect people who believed in him.
ResponderEliminarSilvia Lucas Gutiérrez 4º E.S.O.
I think that it isnt necessary use performance-enhancing drugs to win.If you are really interested in something,such as cycling,you must train hard and compete being a good cyclist,because there are a lot of cyclists who want to win too,so it isnt the best way.
ResponderEliminarMarta Hernández Durán 3ºESO
In my opinion doping is a really bad idea because even though athlets need to be fit, they mustn't consume illegal substances. These substances are dangerous and can have negative effects for your health.
ResponderEliminarI think that it's unfair that some cyclists use types of drugs to win races. All cyclists should give the best of themselves without the need to lie.
Lance Amstrong has done good to admit what he did but now it is too late.
Patricia Naharro Aguilar
I think you do not need doping to win because if you're really ready to run why can not happen to end up winning without any kind of doping? it seems unfair that he won those tour cheating while others ran without cheating and could not win because of someone that if he.
ResponderEliminarIn my opinion , I think that , If you like a sport , you must work hard , and with the practices , you can do all that you want . If you want compete with other people , you can do it , but it isn´t necessary to use perfromance - enchancing , just with work and confidence in yourself , you can win.
ResponderEliminarLeticia Araujo Flores 3ºESO
I think doping is a horrible idea because they need to be healthy,we musn't forget that doping is consume drugs and these are an illegal subtances.
ResponderEliminarI don't understand why the Anti-Doping Agency don't realize before that they were doping.
Is very unfair that they have won a lot of awards, I hope they will be punished.
Andrea Naranjo
I think that you mustn´t doping because it´s bad for the health and it isn´t a good way to win.The Anti-Doping Agency must do something with the cycists who has consumed drogs.
ResponderEliminarAndrea Campos (:
Dopping is the "easy" form to be a sportsman, a bad sportsman and I think that the essential part of the sport is the effort and he hasn´t a good sportsman because he didn´t work hard to win this tours.
ResponderEliminarGermán Matas Fuente 3ºB.
I feel bad because I should be more controlled, and not let the cyclists who dope can not win.
ResponderEliminarismael ollero perez 3eso d
i think that doping is something very serious and the participants of any sport should not dope because it must give example to the future generations of athletes, because doping is a very serious thing i think is necessary penalise it.
ResponderEliminarIn my opinion, I think that Lance Armstrong has done a bad thing in the cycling. A famous sportman doesn´t have to do something like doping because he breaks his sport life.I never do this because is bad for you and the people around you.
ResponderEliminarJavier Durán 3B
I think doping is something that any sport should not do. They must give example for others generations.
ResponderEliminarSo in my opinion doping is a very bad idea.
Apart, It is a substance very dangerous for your body that can damage it.
Doping to is a very bad way for win in any sport.
In summary I think doping is wrong.
the cycling is a very hard sport but think that the desire to win, makes us literally lose the head, this is very bad for the sport and is very bad that he take drugs just to win and is good make checks to see if that person is doped or not.
ResponderEliminarBeatriz Sánchez 3ºD.
I think each sport has a difficulty, but this isn´t an excuse for doping.winners must be people that work very hard to get the award This athletes have disappointed many people. Winning isn´t so important if you are hurting your healthy with drugs and you are cheating.
ResponderEliminarLucia Rivero Sanchez 3ºD
Cycling is a nice and healthy sport.
ResponderEliminarIn my opinion doping is shomething very bad.
Also I thing that doping is no way to win.
Is true that at that time almost all dope, but I thing that Lance Amstrong is a great sportman.
Luis Molina Martin. 3· Eso C
the doping has checked for the medical team each athlete. In my opinion I don't feel good that Lance Amstrong in all races had to used the doping. For my is a deceitful and the exist that to get effort, steadiness and had to a loyal.
ResponderEliminarMiriam Vázquez 3ºD.
First of all, I think cycling is one of the hardest sports and the Tour de France is the hardest race of this sport. People who doesn't know anything about cycling say a lot of bad things about it.
ResponderEliminarOf course, Lance Armstrong made a terrible mistake when he doped himself, but I also think that USADA should'n research Lance Armstrong after so many years. In my own opinion, it doesn,t improve what people think about cycling.
Finally, I'd like to say that people only see the bad part of cycling, they don't see when a cyclist finishes a race after fall of the bike or when they help a mate to win a race. Things like this are the reason that I still believe in cycling.
In my opinion doping is ilegal and it should be more punished because there are more people in these competitions who work hard and, maybe they could have won if cyclist like this not do traps. Doping has to end in my guess.
ResponderEliminarElena Martín Álvarez, 3º ESO A
In my opinion, athletes should not take drugs, since it is to deceive itself to them themselves.
ResponderEliminarIt's a shame that a great athlete since we believed that Lance Armstrong wasn't take drugs, since he was the sportsman who had won more tours in the history of cycling. Now Lance Armstrong has disappointed many people.
Although I think that, it happened a lot of time ago, and that should have discovered before, therefore we must put stronger measures against doping.
No sportsman must be doped, they have to do what they could.
Ana Mª Ramírez Barco. 4º B
In my opinion, he has made a mistake because he has made to think us that he's a one best cyclist over the world and he has won on her own marits and in the really take in substances for to can make. So, I think that he deserve that take away the titles as there are cyclists they deserve more.
ResponderEliminarAndrea Cáceres Rodríguez, 3ºA
I think that sportsmen have to be honest, and they mustn't be liars about doping. Many sportsmen dope themselves, and that's dishonest, but others only eat food that can harm of doping. In my opinion it isn't a question of what illegal or legal, it's just a thing of principles. Amstrong has disappointed his children, his wife, and all of his followers. He was right to admit that he was doped, but now it's too late to fix it.
ResponderEliminarI can't understand why sportsmen like Armstrong decide to doping because if you do it then you live in a big lie. This is a bad example for everyone and when you do it means that you can't get over your goals and you need illegal help.
ResponderEliminarI think that cyclist and sportman too haven´t got merit if they win a tittle doped. If a person isn´t fit enough to win a cup without doping they must to train more time to be fit enough. In my opinion, when Lance Amstrong won the tours doped he was dishonest, and it was a bad example for the fans of cycling. To take the tours that he won and give it to the people who really won the tittle it´s a really good idea.
ResponderEliminarSergio Torres Sánchez 3ºB
In my opinion, Lance Armstrong is a good cyclist but, he is a cheater because he take drugs to win. I think that it is bad because his companions are disappointed and I also think that they must take away his prizes and they deliver them to his companions.
ResponderEliminarYameng Wang 3ºESO B
I think it was a dishonest act, evidently. Also, I think that it's a steal because there are many true athletes who make big efforts and train hard for win.
ResponderEliminarPaula Mostazo; 3ºC
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ResponderEliminarI think that Lance Armstrong was a good rider but he shouldn't take drugs because they are bad for health. He has won many awards and many medals. Also, I think that he doesn't deserve because there are other riders that they deserve more.
ResponderEliminarBlanca de Miguel Aparicio; 3ºC
In my opinion, Armstrong was lying to us many many years, He was an example of superation and strength. I feel very decepcionated when he said the truth of his prizes. I think that he isnt the only one cyclist that cheats on Frech`s tour, becouse is a very tired sport and the main of professional atlethes of fhis sport cheat.
ResponderEliminarI think that armstrong is bad person because he. Was doing trap used doping , doping is bad for health
ResponderEliminarJavier lara. 3 B
I think that Armstrong is a bad sportman and a bad person because he stole importants awards that others cyclists could have won. Also, he was lying to a lot of people that believed in he, and now we are feeling too deceptionated.
ResponderEliminarI think Armstrong is a very bad person because he lied to all the planet.Armstrong i a very bad sportman. Armstrong has disappointed me a lot. He ins´t worried.
ResponderEliminarAlejandro Pérez Parejo. 3 D
Lance Armstrong was one of the best riders of the world but now all people know him as one of the falsest person of the world, he has lost all awards that he won when he was doped. Recently he has said: "No one generation of riders is clean" He can't say that because he isn't a clean person, he was doped and now he has to pay it
ResponderEliminarLance Armstrong was a very good rider, but doping has destroyed his cycling career. Apart from that, i think that all the bike riders, at that moment, has doped themselves, but he was the best doped rider, however i think he's not an autentic sport man. He is a lier.
ResponderEliminarDavid Polo González 3º ESO D
I think the sport should be clean and without cheating because the most important thing in the sport is not winning, is to try to be the best without doping. Lance Armstrong has disappointed many people who believe in him as a cyclist and he should to pay for it because he has been lying to many people since many years ago.
ResponderEliminarLaura Cabezas Campos 3ºC
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ResponderEliminarI disagree with this because very good rider for example Lance Amstrong destroyed their life and their lost their prizes, people who doped try to be stronger but when the acts discovered some people are very decepcionated.I thought he was good cyclist but since He recognized their doping I'm not sure.
ResponderEliminarSara 3º B
It's a shame because he deceived us for a long time. We thought that he was a champion and he won his seven Tours because he worked hard and was physically fit to win. And yes, he worked hard, but he also cheated. In the sport, to win is not the most important thing. I think he is a good cyclist, and he could have won without doping.
ResponderEliminarMaría García Sánchez (3º B)
I think Lance Amstrong is a very bad sportman,because he won 7 tours cheating all the world But many cyclists are doping because it is easy skip the controls . It is a shame that 17 tours are a lie
ResponderEliminarI think that this sport has a lot of difficulty, and there are athletes working hard for be the winners. And I think that Lance Armstrong disappointed a lot of athletes because surely had people that wanted to continue his steps. But I think too that the majority of bike riders be have doping sometime. So they should put more controls for controller the doping of the cyclists. I think that should expel of the cyclism and take away the award a the cyclists that sometime have doped. Anyway I feel good that he beech confessed.
ResponderEliminarBlanca Pizarro Fargallo 3º ESO D
Yes, doping is bad, but it's impossible to end it. The most you can do is try to punish harder dopers to scared the others, it wont go though. Most of the sportmen who dopes them selves is because of greed, they want more than they can get. Greed it caused by money, power, goods...The human been has to evolutionate or just to change and forgive greed and power, we have to be equal one to an other that's the only way to go on.
ResponderEliminarTomas G, Muñoz Sánchuez-Matas
Yes, doping is bad, but it's impossible to end it. The most you can do is try to punish harder dopers to scared the others, it wont go though. Most of the sportmen who dopes them selves is because of greed, they want more than they can get. Greed it caused by money, power, goods...The human been has to evolutionate or just to change and forgive greed and power, we have to be equal one to an other that's the only way to go on.
ResponderEliminarTomas G, Muñoz Sánchuez-Matas
Yes, doping is bad, but it's impossible to end it. The most you can do is try to punish harder dopers to scared the others, it wont go though. Most of the sportmen who dopes them selves is because of greed, they want more than they can get. Greed it caused by money, power, goods...The human been has to evolutionate or just to change and forgive greed and power, we have to be equal one to an other that's the only way to go on.
ResponderEliminarTomas G, Muñoz Sánchuez-Matas
Yes, doping is bad, but it's impossible to end it. The most you can do is try to punish harder dopers to scared the others, it wont go though. Most of the sportmen who dopes them selves is because of greed, they want more than they can get. Greed it caused by money, power, goods...The human been has to evolutionate or just to change and forgive greed and power, we have to be equal one to an other that's the only way to go on.
ResponderEliminarTomas G, Muñoz Sánchuez-Matas
I think that the Cycling is a hard sport, so it need to be fit. There are many cyclists who work to win tours but Armstrong for example prefered to take drugs. So we must take stronger measures.
ResponderEliminarI think doping is bad, but the cycling is a hard sport and a lot of cyclists are doped, since one sees in the information of above, and for my not this one well because it is a nice sport that does not exist because to take drugs to practise it.
ResponderEliminarI think doping is a very bad and irresponsible action, because at the end the tests antidoping are going to find out what cyclists have consumed drugs. This is a very big fault and who consume drugs always lost their trophies and they owe a lot of money. I know that cycling is a very tired and difficult sport but practicing can win without taking drugs! :)
ResponderEliminarLance Armstrong did something terrible because he did not only lie everything he lied himself too. Ok, he won a lot of thropies and money but an the end if someone catch you it is worst that you didn't win nothing because everyone that loved you because you effort and your wish to win the competition, now is very disappointed with him. He was a role model for a lot of childrens.
ResponderEliminarVanessa Iglesias García
I think that doping is very bad for health and therefore should not be taken, the deportiatas wing they do teach people a horrible thing because the most important sport not win if you do not participate that no neck but that doping offer you! NEVER TAKE DRUGS!
ResponderEliminarI think that doping is very bad for health and therefore should not be taken, Armstrong was very silly because when he took drugs and when he passed the exam he could be quiet about the drugs and he didn't lose his tours.
ResponderEliminarDavid Bolaños Bridonneau 2ºA
I think doping is bad for the prestige of an athlete and they shouldn't take them.
ResponderEliminarAll people thought that Lance Amstrong was the best cyclist but sooner or later he will give positive in the exams with many drugs.
I like very much cycling and I think this things take away the prestige of this hard sport.
Manuel Escudero Muñoz 2ºA
I think anything could have won without doping. It is a shame that an athlete of his caliber has consumed these substances.
ResponderEliminarIt is horrible.
Doping makes the person dependent on it and is a hoax what these people suffer without doping.
There should be no doping.
By Macarena Camacho Julián 2º A
I think that doping is very bad for health .There should be no doping.I like very much cycling and I think this things take away the prestige of this hard sport. This is a very big fault and who consume drugs always lost their trophies and they owe a lot of money.
ResponderEliminarI don't like doping. It isn't honest and is also bad for health. Lance Armstrong is one more example of athletes who use these substances. Fair enough punishment that has been imposed. Sport loses much whit things like this.
ResponderEliminarCarmen de Pedro 2ºB