joe_papp said:Lance's fundamental error was thinking that Landis wasn't mentally strong enough to go through with the nuclear option. Large swaths of the public are buying into this belief, too, without stopping to consider the reality. It's easy to respond to one's own bitter disappointment, anger and sense of betrayal (responses to Lance's being revealed to be an unrepentant doper) with misplaced transfer of all those negative feelings to Landis - especially when one's hero (LA) is carping about how Landis (and LeMond and everyone else)_ are bitter, jealous, losers, failures, mentally-unstable alcoholics.
People do themselves a disservice if they stop with that and don't ask, "well, is floyd really mentally unstable? CAN he handle this?" And of course he can - because nothing is on the line for him except the chance to recapture the sense of being "ok" with himself.
So for Floyd, telling the truth and admitting to the pantheon of doping wrongs brings him release, closure, an unburdening, etc., whereas for Lance it represents the destruction of his entire self-created cynical myth.
There's no strain at all on Floyd in comparison to the last four years' lying. He gets better every day. The opposite though is true for Lance - each day brings him one closer to a final reckoning.
And if he's innocent, he should be thrilled to have the chance to prove it in open court!
Very confusing Joe?? So Landis called Lance and said "hey why don't you say you used drugs also. Even though you didn't get caught we both know you did it". Lance was supposed to say "ok"on the phone or "I'll think about it". WTF. Why would Lance admit to something true or not on Landis's time line. Landis wrote a book and spent years until he came to terms with his mistakes. Landis forcing peoples hand is absurd. Fingon was able to talk as he nears his death bed. Lance may have violated many rules but the mechanism used to catch him didn't work. Landis's not getting a job or race entry should play a part as well as Lance's I too busy for your BS right now. I can see where Flyod was at the end of his rope. If he thinks that his special knowledge of some sh-it Lance pulled is the source of his ills he is dumber than anybody could think. I know guys as far back as Alpha Romeo,Crest and Wheaties who said they used way,way after their careers were over and the context of their admissions was at the right time for them. More important it was not don't ala Jose Conseco so you can sell a book or feather your nest with 40g's from 60 Minutes. Floyd failed as a bike racer,husband,son,friend.team mate and role model. I hope his new career as do gooder and policeman work out better. Landis should have called Planckaert or Parkin for some advise about profit from a life with and without mistakes.