Sometimes, intelligent people just have to question themselves and work it out for themselves. You have to realize, A) I am new to cycling (2004) and a spectator of the sport (2005). I chose 'Some other time.'
At some point after defending Floyd tirelessly, I gradually came to reality with Lance while still defending Floyd, I was a real die hard with Floyd. Stage 17 was too good to let go of, I couldn't let it go. But sooner or later common sense and just facts won out over emotion. In the course of listening to interviews with guys like Walsh and Lemond one can generally hear the ring of truth when someone is speaking sincerely, particularly if that person is alleging this type of behavior by a legend. I knew they were telling the truth, but it took a while to accept.
There wasn't a huge amount of time between when I realized Floyd was, I won't say a fraud, he beat guys who were just as doped as he was, but lying for certain and the time he admitted the whole sham that is un-doped pro-cycling. And now I just enjoy the sport for what it is, just like every other sport. Bunch of pros trying to make as much as they can any way they can and we are the beneficiaries of that whether it be doped or just hard work and natural talent.
I am not bitter about Lance being a doper whatsoever. At that level I think it is virtually expected of everyone f you want to keep your job. It's the massive fraud that he has built on the lies, the bullying, bribing. It's hubris in the extreme. There is a book or maybe a whole shelf of books waiting to be written about the truth of how vile this one person could be. No one's going to write the story of Hamilton or Landis, these are decent people who did bad things and eventually their conscience couldn't carry the weight any longer. We all know that story, we all
live that story in one fashion or another if you ever hope to become an adult.
Hubris defined from brittannica article:
hubris
hubris, Greek
hybris, in Classical Athenian usage, the intentional use of violence to humiliate or degrade. The most famous example was the case of Meidias, who punched the orator
Demosthenes in the face when the latter was dressed in ceremonial robes and performing an official function.
Hubris could also characterize rape. Hubris was a crime at least from the time of Solon (6th century bc), and any citizen could bring charges against another party, as was the case also for treason or impiety. (In contrast, only a member of the victim’s family could bring charges for murder.)
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