I saw an article at Cyclingnews that repeated some of the quotes that David Millar gave to the BBC.

“This is not the easy path for me. I had written off the Olympics,” he told BBC Sport.

“But the biggest regret I could have is deciding to take the easy option, take my holiday, watch the road race on TV and see the British team and see what a stupid, selfish decision I had taken.”

All I can say about this is that I have to appreciate how David Millar is really sucking it up and being so unselfish to do something as gracious as this. This is, riding the Olympic games on your home soil, when you have a guy on your team that is supposedly the favorite to win the race. Man, completely unselfish.

I guess David only likes to “regurgitates” his ugly past up when he is doing a promo for his book on his ugly past and not when he is trying to justify his selection to an Olympic Team, after he used EPO and served a suspension.

Anyway, I guess David is going to have to practice his spiel since he was selected to the British Long Team for the Olympic Games. I’d think that all the other guys on this long team are diggin’ how unselfish David is being here. I do feel for him having go over all this dark stuff again and again. Lucky he has written a book about it that he actively promotes. Maybe he could just hand it out to anyone that asks him a uncomfortable question and tell them what page to look at for their answer.

I am pretty surprised about how many people are leaving comments about what a waste of time and money it is to pursue charges against Lance. I don’t really get it. It’s not like Lance isn’t competing in the highest levels of an endurance sport currently, ie. triathlons.

I do understand this is a divisive subject. I was wondering if these same people , that are dismissing Lance’s “indiscretions”, have the same views of Johan Bryeneel’s situation. He is obviously very involved in the sport of cycling at the highest level. Do you all think that this is also a waste of time, energy and money by USADA? Notice the word present in the last line?

Charges against Bruyneel

Specifically, Bruyneel is charged with:

— The possession of prohibited substance and/or methods.

— Trafficking of those prohibited substances and methods.

— The administration or attempted administration of those prohibited substances and methods.

— “Assisting, encourage, aiding, abetting covering up and other complicity” involving anti-doping violations.

— Aggravating circumstances which would justify a longer period of ineligibility than the standard sanction.

As a summary of his actions, the letter said that numerous riders will testify that “he gave to them and/or encouraged them to use doping products and/or prohibited methods.” In addition, witnesses “will also testify that Bruyneel worked actively to conceal rule violations by himself and others throughout the period from 1999 through the present.”