Hey, maybe the Americans wanted to just get out of cycling too. Imagine it, the sacrifice of Lance Armstrong to save everyone in the US from ever having to see Tour de France coverage again. BRILLIANT!
Profound sadness. 
EDIT - So I just realized I already responded to this. Sorry, Weeks. The profound sadness is for my reading comprehension.
Unless they wipe out all photographic and video evidence that shows him winning, just like with college football, I’m inclined to believe that fool won the events. Was he dirty, probably but its cycling and the man survived cancer… you don’t survive cancer without get drugged up or gamma blasted a little.
But then again, if this lets cycling go back to its European dominated obscurity and off my television, maybe this is for the best.
Wow…they actually stripped his placements in the New York and Boston Marathons. It’s obvious the world wants him dead now.
A couple people have alluded to it in jest, but I wonder if whatever American cycling governing body exists is aware that destroying Armstrong’s reputation will completely nullify any passing interest non-enthusiasts had in the sport. Although I guess that just means NBC will broadcast it cause no one watches NBC anyway.
Like Jose Conseco?
Eddy Merckx got caught twice in his career. Bernard hinault’s regular doctor was a doping doctor. Indurain quit the day that they found a test to measure hematocrite values. Fignon admitted to using in his book but was never caught. The only GOAT cyclist of recent years that has nothing to very little sticking on him was Greg Lemont, so you Americans can still cheer for him.
Jacques Anquetil in the 60’s even openly admitted using doping and that was while he was still cycling. They didn’t even ban him. He would say “do you expect us to do this just on water alone?”.
Before WW2 it was even in the tour the france rules that all riders were to supply their own drugs.
Another fun fact, a Belgian paper claims that, I believe the 2001 victory should go to a Belgian since the 12 riders before that Belgian rider now all were charged with doping. That means the number 13 is now the unofficial winner.
Of course Lance used doping, it was not like anybody serious though different. The fact that he is being dragged through the mud by the USADA is rediculous though. They should have just kept it behind closed doors, especially since his image (that of one of the most amazing athletes ever) is/was being used for cancer charity that has raised over half a billion to his foundation alone.
I mean, the whole purple haze cover, and him pretty much acting like some crazy cowboy doing epo like he’s doing coke on a party in the 80’s in Miami is just fodder for news headlines.
your sig is godlike, my son
So if they all doped does that mean if they ever ran a clean long race, no one would make it to the finish line?
That would be hilarious.
Will Lance bare all on Oprah?
for some reason it angers me that he’s going to confess more than if he just maintained his innocence. really dude? you destroy people’s lives, careers, and reputations to defend your moral cowardice, and suddenly now you want to do the right thing after all the overwhelming evidence against you is laid out in full? you abruptly want to be the good guy and come clean?
“i never did it and the people who claimed i did (my entire team, coaches, doctors) are all lying to get money or attention. trust me i had cancer.”
-is confronted with irresistible, damning evidence-
“actually i think i’ll confess after all.”
what a joke.
silver lining: getting to endlessly mock my cycling pals who doggedly believed in him and blamed it all on a vast conspiracy headed perhaps by Lemond or Dick Pound.
what now bitches.
…wait… he didn’t have cancer?
My whole life is a lie.
Seppuku Pact.
he had cancer and that maeks heem trustworthy
Oh. The way you said it it looked like he was lying about the cancer too… I was like god damn he went from having one nut to the hugest balls in the history of… ever.
don’t hate the playa, hate the game.
i don’t like lance at all, i think he is a human who lacks humility but if USADA is serious on this witch hunt, when do they erase some of those records on MLB?
The important thing now isn’t about whether or not Lance Armstrong is a fraud who cheats. It’s about clearing the stupid misconception that it’s OK to be a drug cheat when everyone else cheats. If he can lay it out clean and teach everyone that taking drugs is wrong it’ll bring closure and help to (hopefully) restore the reputation of the sport.