#417: Lance Armstrong And The Business Of Doping




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Summary: <p style="font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">On today's show, we consider a world where everybody cheats and where you can't win unless you game the regulators: Professional cycling.</p><p style="font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Under the leadership of Lance Armstrong, the U.S. Postal Service cycling team was wildly successful, winning the Tour de France seven years in a row.</p><p style="font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">According to a recentĀ <a href="http://d3epuodzu3wuis.cloudfront.net/ReasonedDecision.pdf">report</a>, the team was running a high-tech, secret doping operation during those years. The operation was run like a business, and its leader was Lance Armstrong.</p>