TubularBills said:
I was alluding to the point that for his retirement package he brought down LA.
“As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.”
He precipitated this whole movie.
IF Armstrong goes down spectacularly and completely this whole thing would indeed make for an amazing movie, in the hands of the right director and cast.
Act 1: Lance, the hero, "rises from the ashes of cancer" to reach the top of the sporting heap story and become an inspiration to millions.
Act 2: Floyd, the anti-hero, from humble Amish beginnings to the top of the same sporting heap, before flying off the precipice in a spectacular fall to the very bottom of the cliff.
Act 3: Chronicling the alternate tangling/disentangling of the threads of their individual stories, until those threads ultimately grip each other like two snakes fighting to the death. Ultimately the one-time servant prevails over the one-time master.
Act 4: The epilogue, where Floyd digs himself out of the rubble of his fall from grace, while Lance's rise to the top ultimately ends with his own epic fall into the very depths of hell.
You could almost take this plot out of a Norse legend, or epic Greek poem (no Armstrong-Oedipus jokes please...).