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As many of you may know, Lance Armstrong is a professional bicycle racer who was found guilty of doping and had his titles removed.
What is your opinion of this fallen hero?
Follow up question: Do you think it is possible for him to redeem himself?
| I am disappointed | 43 | |
| I still love him | 16 | |
| I am indifferent | 58 | |
| I didn't know this happened | 7 | |
| other, please comment | 7 |
I think everyone should use drugs in sport. I want to see a fucking spectacle. Level the playing field. Smash world records. Entertain me you superhuman junkies.
Hahahaha, he's not the only one that cheated, he's just the one that cheated and WON.
To be honest, I couldn't care less.
To be honest, at least he used his success predominately for a good cause in his charity work.
If he didn't dope, the person who won instead probably would have, and who's to say they'd set up a charity which has raised ~ $500m for cancer research?
He's clearly a lying, manipulative person but he has some good in him. Thus I am indifferent.
I never believed him to begin with , but they were wrong to go after him like they did..it will completely discredit cycling...they think they cleaned up the sport and restored its credibility...but the average fan will now just believe they are all amped up on something..it just hasnt been detected yet....at the exact moment the triumphal winner of the greatest race in the world crosses the finsh line...millions of people will now roll their collective eyes...congratulations..USADA..and Tour De France...idiots...
I didn't give a fuck about Lance Armstrong before, and I don't give a fuck about Lance Armstrong now.
I don't care one why or the other about him personally, but I see him as iconic of the outdated ideas about performance enhancing drugs in the sports industry.
Quite sad actually, I grew up admiring him for his achievements in cycling and his charity work in the community.
They all do it, picking on one guy is unfair.
And it's not like the drugs did everything for him, he obviously has a large amount of talent. And considering the amount of sportsmen who use drugs, the playing field is still level.
Ha! I love doing that here because many of the people outside my country are used to things being expressed very plainly and at the extreme end of a spectrum. Often it goes under the radar, though. Which I also like. :D
P.S. The "perhaps" is the killer. I'm not even saying what I'm saying is right.
He deserves to keep all his medals. He still had to train and work hard to kick ass in the Tour de France. The dope was just there to give him a little extra boost to help him win sort of like taking vitamins and supplements. I can assure you he would have got his ass beat easily if all he did was do drugs with no training. There is nothing wrong with doing dope. It should be legal.
I think he's a cunt, and I thought that before this scandal broke.
No, he'd have to find the cure for cancer to redeem himself & I don't think that's likely. I hope they take all "his'' money and lock him up for a few decades.
Its amazing how he did it ill admit but considering he hurt people in the process, im a little disappointed. No skin off my back though, Im not really surprised by these things anymore.
Anyone who uses drugs to make them perform better is guilty of the most serious form of CHEATING. I appreciate that Lance survived his battle with Cancer and I must admire him for that, but in spite of that he is a self-admitted CHEAT. He should be jailed for life for accepting presentations for winning when he knew he was in the wrong. There is no excuse for CHEATING and he should be serverely punished
The most serious form of cheating? Hardly, I think bribing politicians is far worse. And to keep it in a sports perspective, it isn't like he injured the competition.
You do realize his entire team cheated too and it was more common to cheat, than not to cheat. (Not that that makes is right.) And the olympic medal he won was taken away. That year, three of the top four were convicted of cheating and stripped of their titles.
And you think these athletes deserve a life sentence? Isn't that reserved for people who pose a real threat to society? I'd hate to see how you punish those who speed while driving.
I feel like he beat fucking ball cancer, and still won the tour de france. Not to mention, founding one of the most charitable cancer foundations around. & i don't even like the guy.
To be honest, I am indifferent. In today's sports world, more and more athletes are guilty of cheating, especially through the use of PED's. I'm almost numb to it all now. As Charles Barkley once said (I'm paraphrasing): ''Athletes should never be regarded as role models.''
And as Skip Bayless of ESPN said of Lance Armstrong: ''Lance was the best dirty of the dirty [bike riders]"
He lost all respect from me, beyond that I don't care. It's not like my disappointment in him is all I think about, but whenever I see him on TV what I think is "oh this wack job again?" and change the channel.
i dont believe he can redeem himself, he was such a knob wen he was denying it all and now hes cum clean we r supposed to forgive and forget. dont think so !
I don't know much about this but I really don't care. I know its illegal to use steroids and that he shouldn't have cheated. But ultimately, it was his choice and his business. I don't consider him a "fallen hero". I didn't consider him a "hero" before this happened either. I consider him as a Human and nothing more. People make mistakes.
he used PED's in a sport where literally everyone uses PED's. he still trained harder than the others to get better results so he could win all those races. if it wasn't him, it would've been other PED'd up guys.