wirral said:
He has an army of lawyers advising him and a lot of powerful friends, allies and co-conspirators in the cycling world and beyond. So, this Oprah interview was carefully choreographed in terms of content, key message and omissions.
He would not have done it if it was not the best path for him.
Of course he thinks that doing the interview would benefit him. That doesn't mean that it would ultimately reap the results that he hoped. He is now being skewered relentlessly in the media. He has no source of income other than his bike shop, whatever investments he has, and whatever media suckers are willing to pay him to continue to tell his version of the truth, an actual truth that is available for all that is willing to seek it out, regardless of his efforts to refute the facts. As such he is worse off now because he revealed himself to the world as the arrogant, narcissitic, bullying.......(I could go on and on) that many of us already knew him to be. By his expanding the exposure of his deception by going on Oprah he simply opened a Pandora's Box of demons that he would have been better off leaving closed. People will now be curious enough to read more about his interraction with all the people he trampled on.
The internet is a dangerous thing.
What came to mind during his time on Oprah is that he is like a reptile. I kept expecting his tongue to intermittently flash out from his mouth. Simply coldblooded, ruthless and lacking empathy or compassion.
His only reason for coming forward and admitting his deception is so obviously not due to any remorse on his part but because his getting caught has necessitated him going into survival mode to get back remnants of what he lost. It's my opinion that he could really care less about the lives and reputations he's destroyed. He's simply coldblooded.
He had no burden on his shoulders in terms of living this lie because he truly believed that he was just the best among the rest of what he believed to be a sport of cheaters. He doesn't see himself as having any type of advantage over his rivals, while at the same time acknowledging that there was no way for him to know if all the rest of the peloton was cheating as he was.