So apparently after the general public has watched Lance's Oprah interview, where I'm sure she asked the really hard hitting questions, there is quite a sway in opinion on social media in Lance Armstrong's favour.
When you read about what he is accused of, and the first hand accounts: The bullying, the threats, lawsuits, shady back door blood transfusions and coercing other people to dope as well, there is quite a disconnect between the man he attempts to portray himself as. This is a man who fucked over a lot of people to maintain a ruse for many years with reportedly almost mafioso gusto.
If anything the interview outs him as a sociopath, with no real remorse or shame for his actions. He plays on our emotions and belief that cancer is bad, but Lance beat cancer, and raised money to fight it, therefore he must be good, or something. It would be a bit like if it came out that Bill Gates was a serial killer who murdered his opposition, but that would be ok because he raised and donated so much money to charity. The ends justify the means.
Either way I expected more. Lance was kind of a hero to my family and we are a cycling family that regularly watches the Tour de France. He let us all down, but rather than do the honourable thing and genuinely apologise he seems to think that if he can sway and manipulate public opinion enough, he will ride again.
I think this quote and article sums it up best really
"Lance Armstrong has no place in cycling and he deserves to be forgotten in cycling," Pat McQuaid - UCI President
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