<p>I just wish he had told the truth from the start instead of denying the doping. Shame on all of these folks.</p>
<p>Any reason why he is admitting this now? I, too, am disappointed in him.</p>
<p>Supposedly, he is hoping that coming clean will allow him to compete again in triathlons.</p>
<p>He’s having big problems now. Interview money and the chance to rebuild his image are what he needs.</p>
<p>While I believe everyone on the Tour doped and Lance is correct about doping-- it made it a level playing field, that’s where the comparison can stop. </p>
<p>Nobody else on the Tour made an effort to bully or threaten people or commit such outrageous acts of fraud. To me, that’s the unforgiveable part of his actions. He ruined some of these peoples lives. For those actions, he should be permanently banned from doing anything that has a bicycle.</p>
<p>Go away Lance.</p>
<p>Lance is a flawed, ruthless person, and he is admitting that. He was willing to do “whatever it took”. I knew Lance in Dallas when he was a teenager competing and I have always supported him. I am sick about all this, but I get it. I’m especially sorry for those he trampled. I still support Lance and admire his athletic talent. His personality is not new news to most of us.</p>
<p>Chuckle- you really don’t know whether other Tour team leaders bullied people or lied because no one has been investigated to the extent Lance has, in part because they didn’t win! Until this year, he won at the doping stuff just as he won on the bike.</p>
<p>I’m listening to his interview, and I think at this point, he should have just stopped talking about it. Big mistake to do this interview.</p>
<p>He needed to do the interview. Besides wanting to compete again, he wants to clear things up for his kids. He had to come clean in some way that would lessens the financial destruction of confessing.</p>
<p>I just don’t think he could make it any worse on himself. This is making me cringe.</p>
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<p>Does it really matter whether any other Tour team leaders hurt other people when it comes to judging what Armstrong did? I supported him earlier because he had never failed a drug test in spite of all the allegations against him and now I feel sick about having been so gullible. He really is an incredibly loathsome and self-serving person and I believe he is only doing the interview because he has exhausted all the other options.</p>
<p>Apparently, the statute of limitations for purjury has just expired so I imagine the timing has something to do with that as well.</p>
<p>I’m disappointed in Lance, if not shocked–I did think that someone who went through intense chemo would think long and hard about doping, though. :(</p>
<p>As to the possibility that doping contributed to cancer making him less “legitimate” as a cancer survivor, would you say the same about people who smoked or had unprotected sex and got the HPV virus that caused cancer or any number of things? Are those people not “real” cancer victims/survivors? I don’t think while doping, while depressing and a serious blow to his image, undoes the good the Livestrong Foundation has done for cancer victims/survivors or Armstrong’s status as a cancer survivor.</p>
<p>I think it’s important to note how endemic doping is in professional cycling , especially at the elite level. Pretty much all of the major contenders from that era have since been banned/suspended for doping. I mean, anyone that was a real worry for Lance is/has been out for the same reason. It’s still against the rules, of course, and cheating and likely unhealthy, but it’s hardly just a “Lance Armstrong” problem–it’s an “[almost] everyone who wins” problem, and pro cycling obviously needs to change something in how they handle doping.</p>
<p>He chose this moment to confess because the statute of limitations on his last testimony in 2005 has run out, so he can talk about it without fear of criminal prosecution.</p>
<p>He wants to be allowed to compete in elite triathlons, and needs the USADA to lift the ban.</p>
<p>I heard him described as “The Tony Soprano of the cycling world” on a morning news show. I think is the worst part. He threatened, he bullied, and facilitated doping. He destroyed every person who criticized him over the years. He deserves to cycle gently into the sunset and to be ignored for the rest of his life.</p>
<p>It’s a very shakesperean tragedy, in a way.</p>
<p>Really hope he rides off into the sunset never to be heard from again. What a jerk.</p>
<p>It’s a good day for Greg LeMond and the other cyclists who knew about what was going on and had to watch as Lance got away with cheating win after cheating win.</p>
<p>It’s fairly transparent why he chose to do this interview but I truly doubt that it’s going to bring the result that he wants. I don’t think he’ll ever be allowed to compete again, even in triathlons. He has disappointed a lot of people. People who continued to support and believe in him, often blindly, right into last summer/fall when this discussion started. Have a look at the early parts of this thread and there are many who continued to tout the ‘never failed a test’ mantra and how it was a ‘witchhunt’ and somehow ‘vindictive’ to even think about pursuing his wrongdoing. Would be interesting to know what they’re feeling now.</p>
<p>He was a cheater, that’s beyond dispute. It doesn’t matter whether or not everyone else was a cheater. That doesn’t make him less guilty. What Lance got wrong was that he lied, over and over, and continued to lie even when confronted with the evidence against him, including his buddies’ testimony, last summer. He likely would be in a different position today if he’d admitted his guilt then, but he didn’t and he continued to lie until this week. If he seriously thinks that any major sponsor would be interested at this point, he’s naive. And that’s what he needs, financially.</p>
<p>I can’t figure out what he hoped to gain from the interview. It highlighted the bullying/intimidation factor, which is worse than the doping.</p>
<p>The man has been insulated by fame and fortune for many years. He probably believes that he can “fix” his image with a little bit of public manipulation. It’s worked before.</p>
<p>The more I learn about Lance Armstrong, the more disgusted I become. I fail to see how anyone can continue to “support” this despicable excuse for a human being.</p>
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<p>Betsy Andreu is understandably livid at the interview. His glib comment about “but hey, I didn’t call her fat” reveals just how clueless he is about how he comes off. The Andreus are just a few of the many who have been a victim of his lies, his bullying, his intimidation, his shameless manipulation. I’m starting to wonder if he is a sociopath, incapable of true remorse or empathy.</p>
<p>He is a sociopath. He still thinks he can bluff and charm his way out of this. I was stunned as to how flippant he was. Especially when he “couldnt remember” whether or not he had sued one of his friends and coworkers. What a pig.</p>
<p>^^^Why don’t you say what you really feel, musicamusica? ;)</p>