Now that a pile of evidence has come out against Lance Armstrong, it appears he still won’t admit his guilt. Even though you now have sworn testimony from 26 people, many of whom had to admit they also cheated in the process, Armstrong still denies the charges.
I see this playing out the same as situation with Pete Rose. Maybe in 20 years or so, Lance will admit what he’s done. At some point in life, a person’s conscience usually kicks in, and he or she will feel the need to come clean.
Overall, it’s just a sad story.
I doubt he’s ever going to confess, he may truly believe he didn’t dope b/c everyone else was doing the same thing, so it didn’t count as doping.
Now beginning to wonder if he had cancer. Known several people with cancer. Never known any of them to beat it then come as world class athlete. On th contrary the many are weaker and never are the same person they once were.
As to cancer, I read that his chemo was a little different, he didn’t take a typical drug that would have effected his lung capacity.
From everything I’ve ever heard about cycling, doping was rampant for decades, if the truth were known, who if anyone finished the Tour and was did no doping at all?
Reminds me of Superbike racing in the 1970s (USA, allegedly street production motorcycle of 750cc). It was said that all you needed to do to win was enter and finish on a stock bike, and then protest everyone who finished better than you.
I’m still not convinced, the “evidence” is people’s testimony from a very competitive sport. He most likely doped to win but it’s still possible a bunch of people are lying to see a giant fall. It would be very sad if that was the case. I also sympathize with giving up the fight, I would imagine constantly having to prove you didn’t cheat by taking hundreds or thousands of tests and going to trials all the time would take it’s toll.