Oprah Talks About Lance Armstrong Interview

i’ve just figured out one of the key things that bothers me about this whole saga. CBS guy says (11:45) ‘he seemed to be someone with remarkable athletic skills.. and then he.. has to acknowledge “i have no clothes”‘.

it’s the assumption that pro cyclists, representatives of a sport i love, are unremarkable athletes, in as much as they are just joy riding on drugs. i think most cycling fans would acknowledge that doping or not, armstrong and his fellow cheats (the ones who won at the top) were still elite athletes. but that’s not how much of the public now sees it – they just see cheats who took the lazy option – which blinds them to probably the most remarkable aspect of the sport, i.e. the pure dedication and sacrifice to build that form.

i’m not blaming the public for that, if anything it’s dopers who are to blame. but it annoys me.