Lance Armstrong really seems to have been exposed by the paperwork that came out recently with all of the confessions of basically every single member of his team saying that he was behind the doping ring. Lance Armstrong’s saving grace I think is the work he has done for the Cancer Foundation Livestrong, and obviously he has done the right thing by resigning, because the organisation would have no credibility if somebody, with the damaged reputation he has now, was to still head it.

I, like many people invested a lot of time in watching Lance win every single year, and I don’t think that any logical person, certainly anybody with a legal background, could possibly believe that he is innocent. One would prefer to, but there is simply no straws left to cling onto other than an argument advanced by my brother, that everybody in cycling was on drugs and Lance was still the best because they were all on an equal footing, all being on drugs, and Lance managed to beat them. From a lawyer’s point of view, you will always understand that there will always be one or two people with an axe to grind and you could often get two or three people who get together and agree to tell the same lie, but when the entire team is telling it, and the massage lady is admitting it, and basically everybody in the world has confessed it, plus there are signs that your blood results did indicate that there was something slightly amiss, and that on other occasions you had doctors write letters that excused substances that did come up in the test, and at a certain point one has to say that the evidence is absolutely overwhelming.

There is a reason Lance Armstrong never fought this case, he knew he could not possibly win and it is no surprise that Nike, who stood by Tiger even with all the allegations of multiple affairs, etc, terminated their relationship with Lance Armstrong saying that he basically fooled them when it came to drugs. He will go down as a notorious cheat, something that is hard for those of us who used to watch him then, to accept just as many of us still had fond feelings about Hansie Cronje. I think in fairness to Hansie, he took money for one or two games, of little consequence, and it now seems that Lance’s entire career was a lie and built around very clever strategies to avoid doping tests and stay in hotels in the countryside where no drug testers would ever go.