Just in case you forgot, Lance Armstrong is still a liar. He was the big story the first half of this week, and his interview Oprah that is airing tonight on OWN has become an afterthought following the events unfolding in South Bend.
One group that hasn’t lost sight of Armstrong’s sudden admission and more accurately, his refusal to appeal the decision from UCI to strip the cyclist of his 7-Tour de France titles, is the International Olympic Committee. The governing body reportedly sent a letter to Armstrong on Wednesday requesting he return the bronze medal he won back in 2000 in Sydney.
Two officials said the IOC sent a letter to Armstrong on Wednesday night asking him to return the medal. The move came after the International Olympic Committee was notified by cycling’s governing body that Armstrong had not appealed the decision to disqualify him.
The officials spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because the decision hasn’t been announced.
This certainly isn’t a shocking revelation, as most expected the group to take this action at some point. It made much more sense to wait to see how everything played out from Armstrong side. The decision from IOC was not based on his admission to Oprah, but began two months ago after the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency report came out about Armstrong and his teammates widespread and sophisticated doping.
The bronze medal will not be reallocated, just as his Tour de France wins have not.
H/T USA Today
He probably melted it down to encase his nut.
I finally remembered just who this looser reminds me of….. Pete Rose! They are both the very worst examples of sportsmanship at that level that their ever was/has been! Errogant, cheeters and lyers to the core. May the rott in the hell of sports forever………… (along with Mike Vick & a few others who I will name at a later date))
Pete Rose never cheated, he bet on baseball, which is a big no-no when you are still playing/managing. As a player he played the game as it should be played, giving all he had, all the time.
That would be “Loser” “Arrogant” “Cheaters” “liars” and “rot”
Illiteracy is alive and well in the good ol’ USA.
Dave Anderson……you are, “ignorant”. Pete Rose never cheated in baseball,he bet on the game you fu cking idiot. He never cheated when he got more hits then any other ball player. Your one of those haters that is just an uneducated fool that looks for reasons to hate on others and should really take a look in the mirror. GO back to high school and try to graduate again, your obvious education level is below tenth grade.
An adult really can’t be that bad of a speller, right?
His editor at the New York Times must be one busy guy.
Not sure which is worse, that Lance is admitting to being a world class liar for the majority of his once heroic cycling career or that the world is so obsessed with building up people as heroes and then knocking them down when they turn out to be no better than the average person.
Why do we expect sport heroes to be role models? It is insanity when you look at history. The vast majority of celebrities lead eccentric lives. Most are great at their job and from what the media prints we are left to conclude they lead highly imperfect personal lives.
The bigger question is why watch the Olympics or the Tour de France when the selection of winner goes on for years and years in the courts? I do not find any aspect of the Lance scandal entertaining.
This scandal is a big problem for American bicycle companies. I am a loyal Trek customer and it is a crime for their great brand to be dragged through the mud by the professional cycling community, by Lance.
I agree with this court of inquiry. The scandal was an inside job. In time, the real criminals will be found. Cycling will never recover the respect of the American people and Lance will still have much of the money he earned during his legendary cycling career.
I agree with Lance. The winner of the Tour de France would inexorably appear on Oprah to tell all. If Lance chose not to dope, we’d just be disappointed in another cyclist who did choose to dope, won the tour and eventually got caught for doping.
The issue is paying athletes too much money and thinking they are role models. Their lives are about boredom and loneliness between opportunities to compete. Only the strongest could resist the urge to do drugs for performance and pleasure. Just look at the heroes of music and you can see that society pays and expects too much when it comes to celebrities.
Be your own role model and stop expecting so much of athletes. They are just people like you and me. We should be most concerned about ourselves and how we can get back to “an honest day’s work for an honest dollar”.
Lance doesn’t know anything about that. Forget him.
Congratulations. Your comments are way, way, better than the article it self. Unfortunately, very few, Americans in special, view the world this way. Being good and talented at something does not make you someone that the world should look at as a roll model in any other fields, especially celebrities in any field. There are so many people that are not public figures and know and act way more and better, that are not looked up to and they should. Very well said.
It is cycling lol, who the hell gives a crap about this sport, is it even a sport? I dont blame him for doping, I mean damn i had to shoot up just to watch this boring garbage