{"id":41,"date":"2007-07-30T14:34:27","date_gmt":"2007-07-30T18:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=41"},"modified":"2007-07-30T14:34:27","modified_gmt":"2007-07-30T18:34:27","slug":"lance-armstrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/30\/lance-armstrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Lance Armstrong."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So over on the blog <a href=\"http:\/\/vandermint.wordpress.com\/2007\/07\/29\/lance-armstong-could-not-possibly-have-cheated\/\">Vandermint Auditorium<\/a> there&#8217;s a snarky piece that makes the argument that because Lance Armstrong consistently beat cyclists who later admitted to or were caught doping, he must have doped as well. (The piece doesn&#8217;t make this argument directly, but instead is written in a sarcastic way that makes the writer&#8217;s intent pretty clear to me. And it comes off as snarky.)<\/p>\n<p>But he doesn&#8217;t mention <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2005\/07\/0722_050722_armstrong.html\">this interesting study done on Armstrong&#8217;s body<\/a>, which found that his heart can pump an abnormally large amount of oxygen, that he increased his muscle-efficiency rate through an intensive training regimen, and that his muscles produce abnormally low amounts of lactic acid. While I suppose that that doesn&#8217;t prove that Armstrong was clean, it does put the lie to the VA argument that Armstrong couldn&#8217;t have possibly beaten cyclists who doped unless he doped himself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So over on the blog Vandermint Auditorium there&#8217;s a snarky piece that makes the argument that because Lance Armstrong consistently beat cyclists who later admitted to or were caught doping, he must have doped as well. (The piece doesn&#8217;t make this argument directly, but instead is written in a sarcastic way that makes the writer&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}