Cycling

Is Armstrong Chugging Pee?

No. No he isn't. Which is why this item from the New York Times about the latest Lance Armstrong doping allegation is extraordinarily disgusting, silly and disgusting:

“I’m not saying anything about Lance Armstrong,” said Dr. Gary I. Wadler, a member of the World Anti-Doping Agency. “But if somebody had half an hour to himself, that’s plenty of time to urinate and refill yourself with somebody else’s urine. That way, even if they witness you urinating, it’s not your urine. It happens a lot. It is the rationale behind the no-notice testing.”

BikeSnobNYC observes:

Why return to the sport from a few years of blissful unaccountability only to sneak around in bathrooms drinking other people's urine? It just doesn't make sense.

Indeed. There's another theory that he injected urine directly into his bladder. Yeah, okay. Now that might actually be less appealing than drinking it. Either way, it's a stupid theory. If Armstrong doped, he doped back when EPO was untestable (EPO is a drug that enhances the red blood cell count, and therefore augments the body's ability to transfer oxygen to the muscles). Beyond that, I still have to go with that quaint notion of "justice" -- you know, innocent until proven guilty and all that.