Regardless if Lance does finally admit to doping, nobody should respect him. Nobody should give him the applause, because he needs to feel the dead silence of no cheers. He needs to understand that his attempt to lead the entire next generation of cyclists into a life of doping, cheating, fraud, and corruption is over. His power over the industry to destroy brands of anti-doping supporters, careers, and to play God in our sport is over. Just as many great dictators of the world have fallen, Lance has fallen. He does not deserve a hand to get back up. He deserves to be punished.
He is not a champion and never was. A true champion will deny the cheat codes of the game and will defeat those who use the cheat codes. It simply does not count when you cheat, because your accomplishments are not real.
Sickness such as Cancer is a horrible thing. But death is a part of life and so is sickness. All of us one day will have to meet death and we will have to come to terms with sickness, disease, and suffering until we leave our planet behind. I for one have had a great sickness in my life which included being the sickest child in the University of Virginia. I too have suffered and have overcome a life threatening illness. Life is a constant struggle to live. I understand pain and suffering, and as a former member of the USA Cycling Team and winning professional cyclist I also understand how hard the sport of cycling is. Believe me it is a lot harder to win a UCI yellow pro jersey clean than to dope and boost your wattage by 25%.
But out of everything I have experienced in life, nothing was harder than not being able to live my dreams or having the ability to continue my professional career because of the strength and power Lance Armstrong had over the industry and the sport. By simply posting an anti-doping article about Lance on my website it cost me my career, my dreams, and sponsors Sierra Nevada and Ofoto.
Lance has promoted himself as the man who has lived strongest. But in reality he has never lived real, and living real is the hardest thing to do in this world. Never has Lance had to wash dishes, cleaning up maggots, while watching the Tour de France on T.V. seeing all of the faces who have slandered, oppressed, and put him in this position of hard labor as I have. Lance has never had the feeling of not being able to live his dreams, maybe only slightly now with him losing his ability to race triathlons.