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SC1990 said:What's the big deal with having to gloat and make out like we're all some superior human being who've been enlightened? At least they're not so aggresively determined to put everyone down.
The big deal is this: the gloating is a result of the superiority Armstrong and his fans have expressed years back. You may not remember the stupid stories about cadence, practicing mountain stages during christmas, living for the sport 'unlike anyone else', etc. 'New cycling,' it was sometimes called and the more naïve fans embraced it. Doping was a problem of the old-fashioned europros.
In addition, there was the extremely unpleasant tendency of some to equate Armstrong's battles in the Tour with his struggles against cancer, giving the protagonists in cycling a moral dimension that was completely unjustified.
Of course, now that pack of lies has collapsed, we've all got to let go of the past. No way. Let the people who filled this cup, drink it too.