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| Lance Armstrong is a liar that many believe him to be… SHAME! |
LANCE ARMSTRONG: SHAME
Lance Armstrong further shamed himself tonight in an
exclusive interview with Oprah Winfrey on her cable television network
"OWN".
Armstrong was asked many compelling questions from Winfrey,
yet he managed to frame his story as he saw fit. This is exactly how this American cyclist has
created his entire persona; arrogance, selfishness, complete denial and with a "win
at all cost", unyielding purpose using every source of gaining an
advantage, legal or illegal. Armstrong
admitted that he was involved in a sophisticated doping regimen throughout his
professional cycling career. Many of his
answers to some of the more difficult questions were told in a contradictory
manner often with rambling cloudiness that left more questions than
answers. He admitted being reckless and
selfish, yet at the same time the contrition in his story was very difficult to
decipher. He pressured other American cyclists bullying them to take part in
the doping scandal and threatened many people to keep his secret, often paying
off officials and using litigation to keep people with damning information
quiet.
More than anything, this interview with Oprah told us what
most already suspected to be the truth.
What was likely meant to be an astonishing moment of cathartic
confession, turned out to be more of a desperate and broken man trying to
assemble some sort of damage control over his entire international image,
public and personal. He was resistant to
questions concerning other athletes and cycling personalities also included in
this high-tech, sophisticated doping scheme, but one of his most conspicuous
accessories, Michele Ferrari, he admitted was the architect of the
sophisticated system of doping and masking the agents banned by the ICA. Ferrari
is a medical physician, former cyclist and author that has received a lifetime
ban from professional cycling after it was discovered that he was providing and
teaching cyclists to use his doping regimen to gain illegal advantages through
performance-enhancing drugs among other methods banned.
What's really sad is the wake of disaster that he has left
behind damaging those who stood behind him all the way believing his lies and
watching him carry-on his masquerade as a champion cyclist and wrongfully
judged world-class athlete. He mocked
those who criticized him and turned the tables taking the offense by suing so
many of his critics, he said he couldn't even remember some of the people he
sued, even some of his former friends and supporters. Every child and every adult that was inspired
by him carries a wound that has cast doubt on every subsequent athlete who
stands above the rest with significant greatness, breaking seemingly
unbreakable records and raising the bar higher and higher. Now, skepticism and doubt will be a shroud
wrapped around them until scientists in laboratories prove that they didn't use
any illegal methods to gain an advantage over the rest of the field of
athletes. Lance Armstrong has left an
ugly scar for not only the Tour de France and cycling, but for every athlete
that works hard, eats right and studies his or her opponent to honestly gained
significant superiority.
The second half of Oprah Winfrey's interview with Lance
Armstrong will be telecast tomorrow night and will surely expose more shame and
embarrassment for not only Armstrong but every athlete involved with him or any
associate who kept his lies secret.
It's just a giant form of SHAME that will hopefully
influence every other athlete who believes cheating is the only way to become
great. In reality, it's a way to become
a failure…
