Helluva bicycle motor...enhanced or otherwise. The other cheaters couldn't beat him 7 times.
See, this is the point.
Read the following link. How many of the Top 10 guys doped? Looks like all to me pretty much.
How many had to cough up prize money YEARS after the fact? This is payback. they all doped, Armstrong won. Same as Bodybuilding back in the '70's. They all took Dianabol, Arnold was the biggest. Armstrong was the fastest. You can strip him, but what's the point?
Seriously, take a look.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doping_at_the_Tour_de_France#1998_Tour_de_France The point you are missing is that when all of those guys tested positive they were suspended. For all of them, it was disruptive to their careers. Some never came back. Some came back but couldn't ride at the same level. That is to be expected. But when Armstrong tested positive, nothing. It all went away. It is much easier to win TdFs when your competition is serving a suspension.
Prize money? I hadn't read that the UCI was asking Lance for any money back. Do you have a link to that?
A common theme here seems to be that this is a witch hunt orchestrated by some vengeful, jealous Europeans. But the Europeans aren't doing anything to Lance that they haven't already done to their own. Heck, during the Festina affair the French hauled their own athletes off to jail and locked them up.
