Lance Armstrong to lose all title

[the_bob_delusion]

This is like the biggest sports news of the decade.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/more-sport/lance-armstrong-accepts-usada-drug-charges/story-e6frfg...

Do you think this is admission of guilt?

How does this affect those that worshipped him and was inspired by him all these years?

How about the charity he was invovled with? knowing they were supported by a cheater?

Do you think Lance Armstrong is a hero and a legend?

[azureline**]

I don't think a hero is a person who plays a sport.

[freshwater-2]

I agree Azure.   And what is heroic about riding a push bike, no matter how well you do it?

[the_bob_delusion]

actually that's not why. It's because he had testicular cancer, beat the odds and still be competiting and winning the toughest road race in the world.

[azureline**]

Nothing heroic about having had cancer and surviving either...IMO.

[davewil1964]

I always thought he was a bit special, but I wouldn't go so far as to call him a hero.

As he is not going to fight the drug allegations, I think that is an admission of guilt.

So not a legend anymore, either.

[the_bob_delusion]

Nothing heroic about having had cancer and surviving either...IMO.

I have to agree with that. I don't get when people say so and so faught hard against their cancer.  It's almost implying there are those who don't.

[azureline**]

No doubt there are people who don't fight, for whatever reason, however, if you do it might just be self preservation?

[ladydeburg]

He was protected from this for years, all his team were drug takers, all the other riders knew it.

The thing is, what about the riders he narrowly beat out year after year, where's their glory? gone, they will never get the kudos back.

This is the real tragedy of drug cheats, it's the others  who really are cheated.

[topsidesoul]

Who cares?

All of the top riders are on something and its a cat and mouse race to  between them and the international testing acancy.

Lance never got caught and the testing and that doesn't sit well with the agancy so they are going to break their own guidelines to test 12 years earlier.

As far as hero status  goes, he raised enough money to build and run a ward in the Flinders medical centre.

I'd be happy to ignore if he did do anything wrong early in his career due to that.