“Although Lance was a smart guy, I think his smartness was more the analytical type of intelligence; I don’t think he was emotionally intelligent,” Walsh said. “He didn’t realize Floyd Landis would constitute a very dangerous enemy. So when Floyd Landis got banned after the 2006 Tour de France, and came back, is reaching out to Lance for help, and Lance is basically, ‘get lost, you got caught, you’re a loser,’ Lance made an enemy of a guy who is incredibly dangerous. Floyd is tough. He’s hard. And when he takes his gloves off, he’s a formidable fighter. Floyd took the gloves off and wrote about what life was like at the U.S. Postal team.”
“Floyd’s allegations were the turning point of this story, and from that moment on, we had entered the end game,” Walsh said. “And it was going to end very good for the truth, and very badly for Lance Armstrong.”