Kevin Coombes (Mathematician.Bioinformatician. Husband. Father. Cyclist) wrote on Quora: “Vaughters was a professional cyclist. He rode for U.S. Postal in 1998 and 1999, the latter being the year of Armstrong's first Tour victory. Vaughters rode in the 1999 Tour. He then spent 2000-2002 riding for Credit Agricole before retiring the next year. Part of his reason for retiring was that he had gotten ensnared by the doping culture, and came to hate it. With Doug Ellis, he started managing a continental-level cycling team called Slipstream Sports in 2006. They moved up to pro-continental level in 2007 and ProTour (World Tour) in 2009. They have survived at that level for a long time, currently riding as EF Education - Nippon. From the beginning, the team was focused on being competitive without doping. But they didn't believe in ostracizing former dopers. One of their early stars was David Millar, who had admitted to doping while riding for Cofidis, served his suspension, and came back as a vocal advocate for riding clean. Vaughters team included several cyclists (including Christian Vande Velde, Dave Zabriski, and Tom Danielson) who had previously ridden (and doped) with Armstrong, and wanted to ride clean. Vaughters had been bullied as a child, and developed a life-long hatred of bullies. He had seen Armstrong in action before, and he watched with horror as the same bullying tactics were rolled out against Floyd Landis. He finally decided that he had had enough. He decided that he was going to testify to what he knew. And he encouraged the riders on his team, and other former teammates of Armstrong to do the same thing. And that's the step that finally ensnared Armstrong and started really cleaning up cycling. Jonathan Vaughters decided that it was time to stand up to the biggest bully in cycling. I didn't know most of the details about Vaughters' role in the process until reading his 2019 memoir, which I highly recommend. “ Answer to How was Lance Armstrong caught? by Kevin Coombes www.quora.com/How-was-Lance-Armstrong-caught/answer/Kevin-Coombes?ch=15&oid=267873878&share=3890a87d&srid=uVpbQW&target_type=answer www.quora.com/How-was-Lance-Armstrong-caught/answer/Kevin-Coombes?ch=15&oid=267873878&share=3890a87d&srid=uVpbQW&target_type=answer
Kevin Coombes (Mathematician.Bioinformatician. Husband. Father. Cyclist) wrote on Quora:
“Vaughters was a professional cyclist. He rode for U.S. Postal in 1998 and 1999, the latter being the year of Armstrong's first Tour victory. Vaughters rode in the 1999 Tour. He then spent 2000-2002 riding for Credit Agricole before retiring the next year. Part of his reason for retiring was that he had gotten ensnared by the doping culture, and came to hate it. With Doug Ellis, he started managing a continental-level cycling team called Slipstream Sports in 2006. They moved up to pro-continental level in 2007 and ProTour (World Tour) in 2009. They have survived at that level for a long time, currently riding as EF Education - Nippon.
From the beginning, the team was focused on being competitive without doping. But they didn't believe in ostracizing former dopers. One of their early stars was David Millar, who had admitted to doping while riding for Cofidis, served his suspension, and came back as a vocal advocate for riding clean. Vaughters team included several cyclists (including Christian Vande Velde, Dave Zabriski, and Tom Danielson) who had previously ridden (and doped) with Armstrong, and wanted to ride clean.
Vaughters had been bullied as a child, and developed a life-long hatred of bullies. He had seen Armstrong in action before, and he watched with horror as the same bullying tactics were rolled out against Floyd Landis. He finally decided that he had had enough. He decided that he was going to testify to what he knew. And he encouraged the riders on his team, and other former teammates of Armstrong to do the same thing.
And that's the step that finally ensnared Armstrong and started really cleaning up cycling. Jonathan Vaughters decided that it was time to stand up to the biggest bully in cycling.
I didn't know most of the details about Vaughters' role in the process until reading his 2019 memoir, which I highly recommend. “
Answer to How was Lance Armstrong caught? by Kevin Coombes
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