It still takes some serious dedication and training to do what he did and imo drug abuse is much more wide spread than we would like to admit
It takes a certain type of person to cheat and to me $10 and $100,000,000 make it no different in regards to acceptance, I still wouldn't do it. The difference is how high you climb as a cheater and how far you have to fall. Lance fell pretty far to the point where a lot of people forgot that he beat cancer. The reason it's all the same to me is that I'm sure Lance thought that when he started a little would do no harm.
I really can't blame the guy. He did cheat the whole world, but when everyone are using drugs to enhance their what else is left for you ? It is not that great of a secret that even during the Olympics some countries and teams have used drugs, but were never caucht.
Everybody did drugs..I mean everybody that wanted to achieve something....those who did not were the last ones on that race....and If anyone did not take drugs, Lance would be still the first one. Admit it or not this is true and the sport is also about doping. And if somebody did a deep research of sport...sport would have to be canceled or doping allowed
extremely disappointing. I think the awards for the France tours should be giving to the second places instead of simply taking them away from Amstrong and leave those competition in blank with no winner
Is that the plan? I disagree with that, they should crown the second place people as the new winners and leave the "mark" of seeing lesson in the history books.
Agree totally, his defence is that "everyone was doing it" but he destroyed anyone who spoke out against him and bullied other people into doping. He will be sued for everything he owns soon because of his perjury...he will declare himself bankrupt during 2013 definitely.
They can't give the award to the 2nd, 3rd, 4th etc. place winners because they were all doping as well. Ullrich, Kloden, Vino, Leipheimer, Basso, Menchov, Valverde. All the top riders have been implicated at one time or another. So, that is why they specified no winner in those races. I watched all those Tours but don't feel cheated because it was fairly well known at the time that most of them were doping. Most of the people that are upset now either don't really follow the sport or are long time Armstrong haters which is understandable since he was never a nice guy. As long as the field is somewhat even I don't care one way or another. Landis's win was a bit much though. His winning stage was so off the charts that it was almost embarrassing. He was doping and rubbing it in our faces at the same time.