And, to the list I would add politicians. Surely Armstrong has nothing on Zero's lies and Alinsky tactics applied to his critics. The fact is Armstrong would never have admitted the fraud without first being caught. The same is true with Zero. Will Armstrong's lies, bluster, and ultimate disgrace with respect to who he really was register with Zero and his minions? Personal character assassination to perpetrate a lie should be legally actionable by the victims.
Politicians do have one significance - they control a lot of weapons.
Once again proving Robert Heinlein was one of the great sages of the past century.
I could care less whether people on FR think professional cycling is a stupid sport or not, some would say shooting a gun at a piece of paper is stupid too. We have freedom (barely) to choose our forms of recreation and make our own decisions about that. What is a shame is that the US Postal Service wasted millions of our dollars sponsoring this guy, and that is just wrong, whether it was Armstrong or NASCAR.
Armstrong has disgraced himself, and proven the thesis of this article, that “royalty” in sports nearly always has clay feet. Or does that never happen in basketball, football (either kind) or shall we add, even golf?