[2ndDivisionVet]

We’re about to become a dictatorship with firearms confiscation and “enemies-of-the-state” round-ups, so forgive me if I can’t muster up any interest in Lance Armstrong or any other wayward celebrity

[deport]

The lesson learned is that in most endeavors where one attempts to achieve the top rung the limits are pushed, some may push more than others but most all will push as far as they can.

That doesn’t forgive or mitigate the efforts but that is just reality amongst elite competitors in nearly any activity.

[philetus]

So you’re saying Lance Armstrong has replaced Carl Marx as a role model in the minds of public school children?

[CodeToad]

Too bad you are feeble minded enough to have celebrity role models in the first place instead of striving to be a real role model yourself.

[KevinB]

As Lance seeks forgiveness, let’s not forget that he ruined many other peoples’ lives, businesses and reputations (nuts and sluts attacks, had Trek terminate its relationship with Greg Lemond, filed frivolous lawsuits against anyone who dared to question him, etc.) in order to perpetuate the fraud. And there is some belief that his cancer was actually caused by the doping. He is the lowest form of scum.

[colorado tanker]

The way Lance dumped his wife, became an absentee dad and ran off to Hollywood told me what I needed to know about his character. I’m not at all surprised his lies finally unraveled.

[Alberta's Child]

I think Armstrong deserves a lot of credit. He took a Euro-weenie sport that has no following here in the U.S. and turned it into a massive business enterprise. He even had the U.S. Postal Service -- which has basically been bankrupt for years -- pony up millions of dollars as a sponsor.

One fraud deserves another, so it's totally appropriate that he apparently sat with Oprah and cried out of one eye as part of his "redemption."

[ThermoNuclearWarrior]

I'm going to say that Armstrong was not a role model to any significant number of kids. They weren't interested in his cancer story, and they weren't interested in his unpopular spectator sport that most people find extremely boring to watch. The fact that most of his “fans”, couldn't name another person involved in the sport shows that. I don't think any kid can be found that was let down by Armstrong. Most don't know what is going on with him, and they literally have no interest whatsoever in hearing it.

Adults built up the name of Lance Armstrong when they were inspired by his cancer story and wanted to support the guy they admired, although most still couldn't enjoy watching the sport any better than anyone else. Adults who saw him as a role model are the few slightly affected.

www.OathKeepers.org

[Hot Tabasco]

Lance Armstrong should be held fully accountable and we shouldn’t be so quick to forgive the horrible offenses that he committed

I would support that statement ONLY if the USADA were to devote the same scrutiny to the top 20 finishers in all the TDF's that Armstrong participated in.

And I would also demand that the top 30 modern day stage winners of the TDF also be included in that investigation........as a side note, Armstrong isn't one of them.

[Will88]

I don’t follow cycling so I know little about it over those years. But in all the discussions I’ve heard about Armtstrong, there is a concensus that doping has been widespread, that “everybody does it”.

I’ve been wondering how many other riders were caught doping over the years Armstrong was winning those Tour de France events? If cheating is so widespread, have significant numbers of others been caught?

[Revolting cat!]

Well, if the Popess of the Church of Eracism forgives Lancey, then so should the rest of us believers.

[GunRunner]

Anyone who compares Lance to Tiger Woods doesn’t understand sports.