"2010 Tour de France Winner Found Guilty of Doping"

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/07/sports/cycling/alberto-contador-found-guilty-of-doping.html?hp


     I chose this article because i thought it was about Lance Armstrong.  On ESPN the other day, the sportscasters were talking about Lance Armstrong possibly doping but the case was eventually dropped.  This particular article was about a bicyclist named Alberto Contador.  Ian Austen, the author, states, "An appeals court ruled on Monday that Alberto Contador, a three-time winner of the Tour de France, used a performance-enhancing drug when he won the race in 2010, the latest black mark on a sport that has been tarnished by doping scandals over the past several years".  It is sad to think that so many pro athletes are using performance-enhancing drugs because it isn't really them accomplishing achievements, its the drugs that they are using.  Contador will suffer the consequences of being banned from racing for two years, a sentence I think is menial compared to what he did.  I would be very angered if I had been a cyclist in that race.  Although, Contador will be stripped of his 2010 Tour title and it will be given to the second-place finisher, Andy Schleck.  One fact that was stated in the article is that there have only been two Tour de France winners that have not been tarnished by controversies involving performance-enhancing drugs".  That is a scary fact.
     I found this article both informative and enlightening.  Not only did it fully document the investigation, but it also made me realize that cycling is full  of scandals and such.  i always thought that baseball had the most drug-rtelatred scandals but I guess that is just because baseball is a lot more popular than cycling, or at least in America.  Like the last article I did, the author of this article once again focused on ethos in writing of the subject.  he also used logos to incorporate important statistics into the article.  By doing so, he was more convincing and the article became eye-opening.