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If he had just kept quiet, wouldn’t this issue just have gradually settled to a stage that would have been better than where he finds himself? Look at all the great Olympiads from East Germany - everyone knows they were doped, but nobody is hostile…</p>
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<p>East German athletes were competing for a federation that sanctioned doping. They also probably didn’t have the type of celebrity profile that Armstrong has.</p>
<p>Your first sentence is still a good point. It has been about five months since USADA made their decision and three months since the UCI confirmed it. The story was pretty dead until rumors of Armstrong confessing arose.</p>
<p>I don’t think his ego could stand to be forgotten, no matter what the reason. Very narcissistic.</p>
<p>The story wasn’t dead in my world.</p>
<p>He’s definitely not “nice” to put it lightly. I don’t think professional cycling rewards “nice,” either–it rewards ruthlessness, and that’s what Armstrong has shown himself to be, though to an incredibly painful, unsettling extreme.</p>
<p>I still think it’s a mistake to cast doping as a Lance Armstrong issue and not a pro-cycling issue. It really is/was endemic among the top contenders.</p>
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<p>I imagine this is true, and, still, when you look at the problems in MLB in the past, you do see that the major superstar offenders are not getting elected to the hall of fame. </p>
<p>So, the feelings towards those who use performance enhancing drugs is quite consistent, and probably this is a good thing if we want our kids to stay away from the hypodermics and such.</p>
<p>I hope people are happier with what they are hearing from Lance tonight.</p>
<p>Finally some affect/emotion (when discussing the kids)</p>
<p>Armstrong as a person = all kinds of bad…</p>
<p>Armstrong the cyclist = the best of his era, where everyone was on performance enhancing drugs.</p>
<p>There’s a reason they didn’t award his TdF victories to the second place finisher during those years…</p>
<p>You can’t even say that guys like Lemond and Indurain weren’t involved… they tested positive as many times as Armstrong, right? And doping was around before they hit the big time.</p>
<p>He seems more genuinely sorry. Maybe it was just a kind of protection he had on during the last interview where he was trying not to let it “touch him,” and just to be matter of fact.</p>
<p>He seems much less creepy to me, and much more human.</p>
<p>No, sorry, not buying it…I just don’t. He’s a documented liar…he’s vicious…he knows how to “act.” No…</p>
<p>There is a difference between the MLB doping and doping in cycling. In cycling, it is endemic.</p>
<p>Narcissistic and Antisocial - this morning at work, the only thing we could not agree on was which personality disorder was the primary?</p>
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<p>I am still amazed that he has confessed…and all to compete in triathlons? I don’t get it. I guess there is nothing in his life that compares to competition…</p>
<p>He confessed because of his kids. He made that clear tonight. He didn’t want to be the kind of person he has become. Yes, he wants to compete, but he knows the chances are slim. This was for his kids and for himself. He doesn’t want to lose his way again. As he said- he can’t lose his way again.</p>
<p>I have to tell you…I always had some nagging doubts about his testicular ca. Not because of any doping thing. I was an oncology nurse for years and never knew of anyone surviving metastatic disease like that. (Although quite frankly a lot of the young men I saw with testicular ca abused steroids.) I tried to find out where he was treated…nothing. Does anyone know where he was treated?</p>
<p>Moving off topic, but for those of you who follow cycling, do you think it’s cleaner now?
Talking about college and local cat I competitive, want to get into pro cycling kids.
Is the sport clean ?</p>
<p>Read his book and you will know all those answers. He was treated in Indianapolis, and his doctors are well known. I assure you his disease was real. Have you not seen the pictures of him when he was being treated?</p>
<p>woody, according to Mr Google, Armstrong was treated at Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center </p>
<p>[IU</a> Simon Cancer Center - Clinical Care Programs - Testis Cancer Program](<a href=“http://www.cancer.iu.edu/programs/testis/]IU”>http://www.cancer.iu.edu/programs/testis/)</p>
<p>Is there a causal relationship between steroid use and testicular cancer?</p>
<p>Dragonmom- local Cat racing has some drugging. I am familiar with track racing in Dallas and some steroid use. Certainly not everyone. There was quite a bit of steroid use by one of the sports teams at my son’s college, too. (Not his sport). It came out during some serious fights attributed to 'roid rage. It was an Ivy, in case you are thinking SEC football! :)</p>