BroDeal said:It is the same reason that Hamilton and Landis are reviled. They continue to lie about it, even long after it is obvious that they are guilty. If Armstrong would man up to what he did then there would not be such revulsion for him. Instead he continues to deceive cancer patients. That is just disgusting.
The only people with revulsion against Armstrong are those that harbor it due to jealousy that either they or their favorite cyclist just can't compare. They mask this jealousy with the mantra that they revile him because he "doped" even though there is not one scintilla of reliable evidence whatsoever (not Ashenden, not the 1999 bogus samples, not the bunch of hearsay by people who have never testified under oath under penalty of perjury, etc, etc. etc. This so called evidence amounts to a bunch of cobbled together steaming pile of BS and nothing more).
How about some cold hard FACTS. Today after being tested 40+ times since his comeback, being monitored via biological passport, knowing that a autologous blood doping test is imminent (thus no mystery frozen bags of blood etc.). He climbs with the absolute very best of the peloton. Marks the acceleration of A. Schleck. Reels in the acceleration of Evans. And played the role of a responsible team mate who has a rider up the road. The marking of the accelerations by Schleck and Evans clearly indicated he had more in the tank. Who knows what would have happened if he had followed Contador's wheel. We still don't know the answer to that . . . because he wasn't being a selfish a$$ as a team mate.
Those are the facts boys. Armstrong at 37 after 3 years of retirement and riding absolutely clean matched the best of the best in the peloton. Deal with. Get over the whining . . . "but, but, but . . . its only because he dopes" tired and pathetic arguement. It makes your jealousy and naivete look all the more obvious.