Why doesn’t anyone seem to care about all of the people who came in second place during those years. That can NEVER be “fixed” or “apologized for”. Those moments never happened for those people and are permanently gone. For THAT ALONE, he should be vilified and scorned.
Half of them had failed drug tests too. Track and field and cycling have such epic levels of doping there’s races where the 5th place performer on the day is now the winner. There’s an Olympic sprint from the 90s that no longer has a bronze medal winner, because 6 of the 8 people in the final heat had their stored samples fail later tests. In many sports trophies are lent, not given. NCAA football is on that path thanks to “recruiting violations” that always take 3 or 4 years to investigate.
The one thing that ought to put Lance Armstrong at the bottom of anyone's toilet is not that he denied the allegations of his performance-enhancing drug use for years -- but that he actually had the shameless b@lls to vilify those who accused him.
Because no one knows who they were, and couldn’t care less. Armstrong was a huge marketing success. He was marketed personally because his sport isn’t exactly a spectator friendly sport to say the least. He definitely didn’t have many child fans lol. Kids were never interested in his personal story, or in watching days of a boring race happening in slow motion on TV.
Liberal elites like Oprah put on dog and pony shows for the masses. Oprah doesn’t care about all the people who played by the rules and were beat by this cheater. She cares about how much passion and butt kissing the guy can do FOR HER.
Not sure how closely you have been following the story, but it turns out that they were all doping, not just Lance.