Anti-Doping Agency charges Lance Armstrong

[DanTex]

25. I am sorry about your loss.

Nevertheless, as a cycling enthusiast who has read about this issue, I can tell you that the chances that Lance Armstrong has been clean the whole time are essentially nil. I think that if you were to read and research more about this, you would also come to the same conclusion. I agree that, like OJ Simpson, he is legally entitled to the presumption of innocence, but that doesn't mean he actually is innocent.

I concede, there may be more of a moral dilemma to this besides just whether or not Lance cheated. I can appreciate that the image of Lance provides comfort and strength to many people. Does that really make it all OK? To me, it makes it more insidious. Not only did he cheat and take drugs that potentially put his health at risk (and encourage others on his team to do the same, and bully people who tried to make cycling a cleaner sport), but then he has the audacity to pretend that it's all really his inner strength that he found during his cancer fight.

I can agree that lying to a particular child or cancer patient in order to give them strength to fight on is the right thing to do. But, as a society, as adults, I don't agree that we should condone what Lance Armstrong did simply because, as long you don't pay too close attention, the myth of Lance Armstrong is inspirational.