There are two types of people in this world…

… the people that think Lance is/was a doper and a cheat… and those who don’t… the cup is half empty or half full.  Lance hasn’t even ridden in the Tour de France for 7 years now (yes, it’s been that long!)… and he won for 7 straight years… so this conversation has been going on for about 14 years… and it ain’t over yet… at least here on the trading floor…  so a buddy of mine that I work with, let’s call him “Hab boy” thinks that Lance is guilty by association and innuendo… the logic goes like this: if almost everyone was using EPO or some other performance enhancing drug back then, and Lance could still beat them… well then, he is either some kind of incredible athlete… or just had better drugs… and the other side of the argument is… he is the most tested athlete in ANY sport, literally tested hundreds of times, and has never tested

positive… and we on the other side of the fence, choose to believe he really is an incredible athlete, like Michael Jordan or Gretzky or Muhammad Ali… but unlike those athletes he has also raised hundreds of millions for cancer victims and cancer awareness… so give it a rest already… now I’m not sure if we’ll ever know the answer… but for most people the line has been drawn, one side or the other… and Hab boy is convinced he is guilty (and he may well be)… but until he actually is PROVEN guilty, I’ll go on believing he’s not guilty… and why do I bring this up?… because Hab boy isn’t in the office this week… he sent me a bloomberg message yesterday asking me if I watched the end of the Tour on Sunday?… I said “of course!”… he said “me too… because I’m in Paris! (at the bank’s office’s there)… and I was at the Champs

Elysees for the finish!”… and he knew that it would make me crazy that a Tour-hater like him was there watching one of the greatest races in the world… while I was here at work… he said it was boring though… and he was a bit mad because there were all these guys on bikes blocking the road… when he was on his way across the street trying to get to McDonalds…

He even had to rub it in by sending me these pics!

PS.  another buddy sent me a joke about the title that I had to share… “There are 3 types of people in the world… people who are good at math… and people who aren’t! 

Cheers,

Rob