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Titolo: Lemond accuses Armstrong

http://www.news24.com/News24/Sport/Tour_de_France/0,,2-9-1506_1558141,00.html
Paris - Triple winner Greg LeMond has queried whether five-time Tour de 
France winner Lance Armstrong is as clean as he claims.
LeMond, the first American to win the Tour, says just because Armstrong 
has never tested positive for banned substances does not necessarily 
prove he is not using drugs.
"Everybody says that. But neither had David Millar tested positive and 
he now admits he took EPO," LeMond told Le Monde daily.
World time-trial champion Millar admitted to a French judge two weeks 
ago he had used the banned blood-booster erythropoietin (EPO).
As world time-trial champion and a three-time stage winner in the Tour 
de France, Millar is cycling's most high-profile casualty of a police 
drugs investigation since the Festina scandal of 1998.
The 27-year-old was the ninth Cofidis team member to be placed under 
investigation in a police inquiry, which began in January after the 
arrest of a young Polish professional, Marek Rutkiewicz, at Charles de 
Gaulle airport.
"The problem with Lance is that you're either a liar or you're out to 
destroy cycling," said LeMond who won in 1986, 1989 and 1990.
"Lance is ready to do anything to keep his secret but I don't know how 
long he can convince everybody of his innocence."
Last week Armstrong lost an appeal against a ruling denying him the 
right to insert a denial against accusations of doping published in a 
book released last month.
The book "LA Confidential: The Secrets of Lance Armstrong" by 
award-winning Sunday Times journalist David Walsh and Pierre Ballester, 
a cycling specialist formerly with French sports daily L'Equipe, alleges 
he used banned drugs.
The book focuses on statements attributed to Emma O'Reilly, a 
physiotherapist who worked with Armstrong from 1998-2000. O'Reilly 
claims Armstrong used the banned blood booster erythropoietin (EPO).
Armstrong has never tested positive for banned substances and has always 
strenuously denied taking any such products.
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 prove he is not using drugs.
un esempio di garantismo. Io non posso provare che tu non sia un 
criminale, ma ciň non vuol dire che tu non lo sia.
dobbiamo davvero continuare a regionare in questi termini?

 dobbiamo davvero continuare a regionare in questi termini?
Il fgarantismo è sacro. Evitiamo però di fare i fessi. La condanna per 
merdstronz può chiaramente essere solo morale, non giuridica né sportiva. A 
meno che, in nome del garantismo, non si voglia vivere con le fette di 
prosciutto sugli occhi
-- 
"Du temps que la Nature en sa verve puissante
Concevait chaque jour des enfants monstrueux,
J'eusse aimé vivre auprès d'une jeune géante
Comme aux pieds d'une reine un chat voluptueux
J'eusse aimé voir son corps fleurir avec son ame
Et grandir librement dans ses terribles jeux;
Deviner si son coeur couve une sombre flamme
Aux humides brouillards qui nagent dans ses yeux;
Parcourir à loisir ses magnifiques formes;
Ramper sur le versant de ses genoux énormes,
Et parfois en été, quand les soleils malsains,
Lasse, la font s'étendre à travers la campagne,
Dormir nonchallament à l'ombre de ses seins,
Comme un hameau paisible au pied d'une montagne."
Charles Baudelaire