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The backstory is that, at the time, the UCI drug testing process had so many holes in it that it was easy for the riders to circumvent. I guess that could be an entire documentary in itself, though not as compelling to the general public is the LA story...
Pondo - that WSJ link isn't opening for me. Do you have to subscribe?
That bit was great TV wasn't it....
Gotta say, I find Kimmage a bit hard to stomach at times but there is no doubting that he has balls the size of melons - they didn't back him down an inch.
Pondo - that WSJ link isn't opening for me. Do you have to subscribe?
Not knowingly! 🙂 URL is -
http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2013/01/27/why-did-federal-prosecutors-drop-their-lance-armstrong-case
But I found it just googling -
why was the federal case against lance armstrong dropped
Effectively, it's just a blog post saying "no-one's got a ****ing clue why they dropped it".
Is the film on C4 tonight worth a watch?
Brilliant doc. What i didn't understand was how it went from the federal case being dropped against him to somehow the anti-doping agency coming out with a 1000 page dossier against him. How did that come about?
As above, nobody seems to know why the federal case was dropped although clearly some have their suspicions. As was briefly mentioned, and David Walsh's book deals with in a little more detail, Travis Tygart at USADA decided that he would continue investigating and re interview as necessary the people that had been interviewed for the federal case. Tygart was the gent interviewed near the end who admitted receiving anonymous threats including a death threat.
I have read Walsh's book but not seen the video of LA's testimony to the SCA case before. The sociopathic nature of his character came across much more from the video.