Armstrong Blasts New York Times

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Even Lance Armstrong is cheesed off at the New York Times, after one of their patented guilt-by-association smear jobs: Armstrong blasts cycling-EPO report.

Lance Armstrong bristled Tuesday at a report that two former teammates admitted using performance-enhancing drugs, calling it “a hatchet job … to link me to doping through somebody else’s admission.”

Frankie Andreu and another former Armstrong teammate who requested anonymity because he still works in cycling told The New York Times they used the endurance-booster EPO to prepare for the 1999 Tour de France, when Armstrong won the first of his seven titles.

Neither rider has ever tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs and both said they never saw Armstrong take any banned substances.

“I think it’s a pretty nasty attempt by The New York Times to link me to doping through somebody else’s admission. You have to read way down in the article until Frankie says, ‘I never saw Lance do anything.’

”To me, this is a story about Frankie Andreu,“ Armstrong said during a telephone interview with The Associated Press from Los Angeles. ”The fact he took drugs has nothing to do with me.“

UPDATE at 9/12/06 6:17:05 pm:

And by the way, since we’re on the topic, here’s a random cycling question I’d like to throw out to anyone who might know: is there a good helmet-mount ”sport camera” (digital video) that works with Mac OS X? I’ve researched a bit, but nothing I’ve seen so far looks great…

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