Lance Armstrong has his say on the Team Sky doping accusations at the Tour de France, but doesn't say much at all
Lance Armstrong touches down in France on Wednesday to ride with his friend Geoff Thomas, but before he left the United States he dipped his toe into the water of the doping accusations surrounding Chris Froome.
Team Sky claim that their rider data was hacked to obtain stats of Froome’s destructive ride up Mont Ventoux in the 2013, used then to infer the Brit must be doping.
But after a similar show of force on the Col de Soudet on Tuesday questions were again raised as to whether the Sky rider is doping – and Armstrong took to Twitter to answer a few questions on the subject, as well as giving his thoughts on the Tour as a whole.
1. Clearly Froome/Porte/Sky are very strong. Too strong to be clean? Don't ask me, I have no clue.
— Lance Armstrong (@lancearmstrong) July 14, 2015
2. The first mtn stage is always unpredictable. The day after a rest day is also unpredictable. Combine the two and its 10x.
— Lance Armstrong (@lancearmstrong) July 14, 2015
3. Nibali's tour looks to be over.
— Lance Armstrong (@lancearmstrong) July 14, 2015
Finally, this @letour is NOT over. Those initial hard efforts that Sky put out today tend to add up and there is a ton of racing left.
— Lance Armstrong (@lancearmstrong) July 14, 2015
When one Twitter user requested that Armstrong stopped accusing others of doping (not that he did), the Texan replied rather contritely.
. @danieljcastille I'm not accusing anyone In fact, quite the opposite. I'm not interested (nor do I have the credibility) to opine there.
— Lance Armstrong (@lancearmstrong) July 14, 2015
The Texan is set to ride a couple of stages of the Tour with Thomas, one day ahead of the pro peloton, to raise money for Cure Leukaemia.
While Armstrong was requested to stay away from the race by UCI president Brian Cookson, Thomas believes his presence will be a motivation to the other riders in the challenge.
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