Lance Armstrong makes me puke!
This is a man who presented himself as a medical warrior valiantly rising above incomparable odds to emerge victorious in his sport and to heap glory upon his country.
Instead he was a stinking, rotten cheater. A common selfish liar. A greedy fake we should run away from and shun. An example of what we want our children NOT to be. He does not deserve any second chance for rejoining competitive cycling. He had a second chance every time he pulled up his racing pants and went ahead and cheated anyway.
The arrogance involved in his chicanery just boggles me. Every single person on his support staff took their little share of the ill gotten winnings and kept quiet. I wonder if Sheryl Crow knew what was going on and that's the reason she head for the hills.
Personally I've gotten some of the ass ends of American medical care; but every blood test I've ever had was capable of revealing if I had so much as inhaled in a room full of Twinkies. With Armstrong's level of care, are we supposed to believe not one single doctor or phlebotomist saw something awry? And the possibility that one steroid injection or (Holy Hannah!) dose of calve's blood might have jeopardized Armstrong's cancer regime didn't scare the bejeezus out of any of his doctors? No thanks.
I don't give a rat's ass about an interview with Oprah. What I want to see is Armstrong drowning in tears and his own snot on his knees in front of every cyclist who had ever raced against him. He should be forced to return every single cent of tainted financial winning. He should beg forgiveness and then bestow the first place awards to the allegedly second place finisher in every competition currently credited as an Armstrong win. And then the world should turn its collective back.
Usually I am the first to giggle at the hoopla surrounding competitive sport. But even I understand that athletics, when done fairly and well, has a level of dignity and maybe even honor that I can appreciate. Children recognize this even if they don't know what it means. No way does Armstrong deserves to be included in that circle.
What he has taught me, and taught all of us, is the meaning of hubris. Shame on him. Shame on him forever,
This is a man who presented himself as a medical warrior valiantly rising above incomparable odds to emerge victorious in his sport and to heap glory upon his country.
Instead he was a stinking, rotten cheater. A common selfish liar. A greedy fake we should run away from and shun. An example of what we want our children NOT to be. He does not deserve any second chance for rejoining competitive cycling. He had a second chance every time he pulled up his racing pants and went ahead and cheated anyway.
The arrogance involved in his chicanery just boggles me. Every single person on his support staff took their little share of the ill gotten winnings and kept quiet. I wonder if Sheryl Crow knew what was going on and that's the reason she head for the hills.
Personally I've gotten some of the ass ends of American medical care; but every blood test I've ever had was capable of revealing if I had so much as inhaled in a room full of Twinkies. With Armstrong's level of care, are we supposed to believe not one single doctor or phlebotomist saw something awry? And the possibility that one steroid injection or (Holy Hannah!) dose of calve's blood might have jeopardized Armstrong's cancer regime didn't scare the bejeezus out of any of his doctors? No thanks.
I don't give a rat's ass about an interview with Oprah. What I want to see is Armstrong drowning in tears and his own snot on his knees in front of every cyclist who had ever raced against him. He should be forced to return every single cent of tainted financial winning. He should beg forgiveness and then bestow the first place awards to the allegedly second place finisher in every competition currently credited as an Armstrong win. And then the world should turn its collective back.
Usually I am the first to giggle at the hoopla surrounding competitive sport. But even I understand that athletics, when done fairly and well, has a level of dignity and maybe even honor that I can appreciate. Children recognize this even if they don't know what it means. No way does Armstrong deserves to be included in that circle.
What he has taught me, and taught all of us, is the meaning of hubris. Shame on him. Shame on him forever,
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