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Lance Armstrong Op-Ed

Lance Armstrong Op-Ed . Taylor McIntyre Drake Stratton Nick McCormick Kathryn Berry. Vocab/Allusions. Tour de France: bicycle touring race, 2500 mi, in France, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Spain, and Switzerland.

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Lance Armstrong Op-Ed

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  1. Lance Armstrong Op-Ed Taylor McIntyre Drake Stratton Nick McCormick Kathryn Berry

  2. Vocab/Allusions • Tour de France: bicycle touring race, 2500 mi, in France, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Spain, and Switzerland. • BALCO Affair: Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative accused of distributing PEDs to Major League Baseball players. • USADA: U.S. Anti-Doping Agency • Court of Arbitration for Sport: an international arbitration agency set up to settle disputes related to sport • WADA: World-Anti-Doping Agency; promotes, coordinates, and monitors doping in sport in all forms • John Fahey: President of WADA • Tommy Crags: senior editor of Deadspin, a sports news magazine that covers sports gossip, athlete culture, and other things you won’t find on any other sports-oriented sites.

  3. Persona • Persona: biased towards Lance Armstrong; feels like he is innocent. • “Lance Armstrong is a good man” • “I do know that he beat cancer fair and square” • “He’s not the mastermind criminal…reeks” • “Nothing I could learn about him…could alter my opinion”

  4. Audience • The Audience of the author seems to be the critics of Lance Armstrong, while at around the fourth paragraph, the audience seems to change to critics of the CAS and the USADA as well as their practices. • "Quite independently of Lance..., for a long, long time I've had serious doubts about the motives, efficiency, and wisdom of these 'doping' investigations.“ • "Lance Armstrong is a good man.“ • "So forget Lance. I have many problems with USADA .."

  5. Purpose • To defend her friend, Lance Armstrong, and to alert her audience of the failings and corruption of anti-doping agencies around the world. • “First of all, Lance Armstrong is a good man.” • “He’s not the criminal mastermind the [USADA] makes him out to be.” • “How does an agency that is supposed to regulate drug testing strip a guy of seven titles without a single positive drug test.”

  6. Argument • Jenkins argues that the allegations of Lance Armstrong’s use of PEDs is false and that the USADA and the CAS are unjust organizations. • “He’s not the mastermind criminal the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency makes him out to be” • “I have so many problems with the USADA, the World Anti-Doping Agency , and the CAS” • “When are people going to grow sick enough of these astonishing overreaches and abuses to do something about it?” • “How does an agency that is supposed to regulate drug testing strip a guy of seven titles without a single positive drug test?”

  7. Diction • Diction: Due to the manner in which the author speaks her mind and uses colloquial word choice, the article presents a casual diction as though it is a one-sided conversation.

  8. Tone • Tone: The overall tone seems to be very defensive of Lance, yet it does shift to an attack on the practices of anti-doping agencies like the USADA and the CAS very early in the fourth paragraph.

  9. Register • Register: The author’s register seems to be very informal and conversational, especially when she states at the very beginning “Lance Armstrong is a good man”. She became a fan of Armstrong rather than just a journalist in this Op-Ed.

  10. Syntax • Syntax: The author starts many of her sentences with the conjunctions “and” and “but”, which contributes to the informal register of the Op-Ed. She also structures the article around several court cases involving athletes accused of and charged with doping, followed by a rhetorical question, the most common being: “Would you want to before that court?”

  11. Works Cited • http://espn.go.com/olympics/cycling/story/_/id/7449786/alberto-contador-case-marred-protest-cas-report-says • www.euroresidentes.com/.../Jose_Luis_Rodriguez_Zapatero.htm • www.wada-ama.org • www.deadspin.com • www.wikipedia.org/

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