Well now looky here, all that good he's done for the sport my oh my. Sure Rabobonk is hypocritical, but the devastation is evident; while some contributed more than others. The thing that's so despicable is that there was a perfect symbiosis of mendacity and fraud between Lance Armstrong and the governing body of cycling during a moment in which the sport was trying to go global, but though has now totally backfired. That is he, Lance Armstrong, offered the UCI the perfect "clean and triumphant" image to get the message across, which was to use Cancer Jesus for all his publicity worth in exchange for immunity. At the same time the privileged role even permitted him, Lance Armstrong, to rule over the sport by obtaining an elevated status above and beyond it for all the economic interests. That's the truth. For years both parties took full advantage of this sickening business relationship, Lance as the Tour divus and the UCI as the uppity globe trotters of sport. Lance attained cycling apotheosis, while the UCI put on new events in China, Australia, North and South America, even Africa. In fact it seemed to be the most perfect sweet deal, until it inevitably went kaboom! Lance made cycling more popular both in the US and globally, lent his "phenomenal story" as the cancer survivor-cum-ultimate Tour champion, a myth of course, over to cycling, to cast what had been mainly a European sport all over the planet as it had never been previously projected. Damn right the UCI covered his and his team’s doping! Lance, of course, arrogantly relished in his mafia boss position, while never shrinking from it: dealing out as hid did both blessings and anathemas. While he occasionally unleashed his wrath on those who stood between him and his complete power over the sport with career ruining and economically debilitating effects, just to preserve his Majesty’s sovereignty and fallacious and fraudulent persona. All this without even mentioning the hearings he won against journalists, newspapers, insurance companies, which were all based on the lies of a sociopath and a colossal fraud, to the tune of the millions of dollars he pocketed. The repercussions of what this relationship alone will have done to the two-wheeled sport certainly overrides any so called good it did. Potentially it could prove to be, I would say, destructive beyond even the conventional atomic potency and into the hydrogen zone.
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