With news of Lance Armstong’s un-retirement from the world of competitive bike riding, it’s just a matter of time before there is talk once again of doping in the professional biking world. Between Armstrong and Floyd Landis, and the seemingly hundreds of other guys who get kicked out ot the Tour de France each year, it seems like it’s professional doping, with a bit of bike riding thrown in.

So now that Lance is returning to the “sport” he loves so much, it seems clear to me how he needs to handle this: SAVE EVERYTHING. No one is going to let Lance return to the Tour and win it again without some serious accusations. If I’m Lance Armstrong, I’m hiring an international team of doctors to draw blood and collect urine weekly, or even daily, for the next year.

Tour de France organizers are apparently not thrilled with the man they’ve been suspicious of for years returning to their race, and they say that he will be held to the strictest standards.

The right move, therefore, is for Lance to make a preemptive decision to have himself tested over and over again to remove all doubts of his cleanliness.

Winning the Tour de France unfortunately isn’t enough. He needs to win it and please even the most strenuous anti-dopers. Whether he was clean or not for the first seven wins, to me, is irrelevant. His legend for those first seven wins is secure. What matters now is that the gaze of the whole world will be on him in his comeback and he already carries some sort of presumption of guilt. He needs to prove the doubters wrong, and the only way to do that is to preserve his proof throughout the journey.

Armstrong needs to have a team of doctors with him throughout his training to document his regimen, as well as collect samples of him for testing in the present and the future. If he’d doing nothing wrong, this should be nothing more than a minor inconvenience. On the other hand, winning his eighth Tour de France, and doing it as cleanly as can be humanly proved, would not only win over his critics, it may vindicate his past performances and secure his legendary status.

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