This months ProCycling magazine runs an excellent article on the Armstrong myth. The front cover looks suspiciously like its a pro Armstrong article but maybe thats just to draw the punters in.
Some passages that are impressive:
"...some would have pondered the intellectual challenge highlighted by a lawyer involved in the case (London Sunday Times) earlier this year: "That the guy who's winning all those Tours isn't doping, when everybody else is, doesn't even pass the straight-face test""
In 2003.... Armstrong leans forward on his chair and instructs the journalist to turn off his recorder.....: "There are three evil people in this world... "Osama Bin Laden..." He pauses for maximum dramatic effect "Saddam Hussein..." Pauses a bit longer, looks up, takes a breath, "...and David Walsh."
"As Filippo Simeoni, the victim of Armstrong's callous bullying in the 2004 Tour de France told me, "If he sent out a strong signal about doping, it could change everything in cycling". Instead If Floyd Landis is to be believed, he was paying off even more culpable UCI to cover up positive tests. And all impulse for change was lost.
....."Dr. Craig Nichols, the oncologist ...once spoke to him about 'the obligation of the cured'. Armstrong didn't forget this message. Curiously, though, he seemed to feel no such obligation to cycling, his peers or his fans.
"What Armstrong should have known was that he couldn't have it both ways - he couldn't propel cycling into the mainstream, enjoy the starburst of riches and influence, and not expect the previously uninitiated to start spotting holes in the Gospel. Never mind the straight-face test; that mistaken belief was just an insult to the publics intelligence - or plain arrogant.
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Reprinted without permission ProCycling Magazine February 2011 p. 44-48.
Less than 4% non-copyright rule applies.
Some passages that are impressive:
"...some would have pondered the intellectual challenge highlighted by a lawyer involved in the case (London Sunday Times) earlier this year: "That the guy who's winning all those Tours isn't doping, when everybody else is, doesn't even pass the straight-face test""
In 2003.... Armstrong leans forward on his chair and instructs the journalist to turn off his recorder.....: "There are three evil people in this world... "Osama Bin Laden..." He pauses for maximum dramatic effect "Saddam Hussein..." Pauses a bit longer, looks up, takes a breath, "...and David Walsh."
"As Filippo Simeoni, the victim of Armstrong's callous bullying in the 2004 Tour de France told me, "If he sent out a strong signal about doping, it could change everything in cycling". Instead If Floyd Landis is to be believed, he was paying off even more culpable UCI to cover up positive tests. And all impulse for change was lost.
....."Dr. Craig Nichols, the oncologist ...once spoke to him about 'the obligation of the cured'. Armstrong didn't forget this message. Curiously, though, he seemed to feel no such obligation to cycling, his peers or his fans.
"What Armstrong should have known was that he couldn't have it both ways - he couldn't propel cycling into the mainstream, enjoy the starburst of riches and influence, and not expect the previously uninitiated to start spotting holes in the Gospel. Never mind the straight-face test; that mistaken belief was just an insult to the publics intelligence - or plain arrogant.
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Reprinted without permission ProCycling Magazine February 2011 p. 44-48.
Less than 4% non-copyright rule applies.