What do we make of the inspirational Lance Armstrong now?
The great Lance Armstrong was once an American hero. Question is, is he still? (AP photo)
Lance Armstrong was more than a guy on a bike. Indeed, he titled his as-told-to autobiography, “It’s Not About the Bike.” And he wasn’t just a guy who had cancer and lived to tell the tale. He was an inspiration, a role model, an object lesson regarding the power of the human will.
He beat testicular cancer and didn’t just go on with his life. He became bigger than life. He won the Tour de France seven years running. He was named Sports Illustrated’s 2002 sportsman of the year and took multiple ESPYs as the male athlete of the year. Above and beyond all that, he was the guy who gave us the yellow bracelets, the ones bearing the name of his foundation — Livestrong.
And now he stands revealed as … what? A craven cheat? The hypocrite of all hypocrites? The guy who swore his innocence right up until the point where he decided to stop swearing?
“I am … finished with this nonsense,” was Armstrong’s rationale for dropping his fight against the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, which took his words as an admission of guilt and moved to strip him of those seven Tour de France titles. (Though the International Cycling Union is waiting for further information to take action.) The USADA has vacated, to invoke the college sports word, everything Armstrong achieved in his sport from 1998 on.
And we’re left to do … what? To recall all the good will and admiration we directed toward Lance Armstrong all these years? To feel cheated ourselves? To feel — diving deeper here — that this beacon of hope actually was a manifestation of everything we have hoped against hope isn’t true? That the games aren’t rigged, that sports are indeed a measure of character, that the bad guys don’t always (or ever) win?
If we’d been honest with ourselves, we might have wondered if the Livestrong story was the stirring saga it appeared to be. Armstrong was under suspicion even as he was winning those Tours. (This being cycling, everybody is under suspicion.) He would dispute every allegation, but the weight of the whispers began to give some among us pause. But not, I would suggest, the masses.
Most of us still saw Armstrong as a hero. He had cancer and still he became the world’s greatest cyclist. That was the more gripping narrative, and also the more palatable. Reality, alas, tends to get complicated.
Armstrong insists that he has admitted no wrongdoing, that he has simply chosen not to keep fighting the USADA. In a statement, he said this: “USADA cannot assert control of a professional international sport and attempt to strip my seven Tour de France titles. I know who won those seven Tours, my teammates know who won those seven Tours and everyone I competed against knows who won those seven Tours.”
And now we’re again scrambling for purchase on that slippery slope. Did Southern Cal win the 2004 BCS title or not? (The Trojans were stripped of the title owing to sanctions involving Reggie Bush, who has since returned his 2005 Heisman Trophy.) Who’s the real home run king — Hank Aaron or Barry Bonds? We have reason to suspect that Bonds didn’t generate all 762 homers on the up-and-up, but MLB kept letting him play, did it not? And, for further discussion: Should Mark McGwire be in the Hall of Fame? Should Rafael Palmeiro? Should Roger Clemens? And what of A-Rod, who might well hit 763 home runs?
This is a terrible time to be a sports fan. (Last week Melky Cabrera, this week Bartolo Colon and now Armstrong.) For all the joy that’s supposed to come from following these athletes and their trivial pursuits, we keep slamming into chilling truths, or half-truths, or truth laced so heavily with fiction that it’s not true at all. All any of us can know for sure about Lance Armstrong is that the first part of his stirring saga stands: He did beat cancer. Everything afterward is open to interpretation. Everything afterward could well have been a lie.
And all among us who have, over the years, sported those yellow bracelets? We could have shared his lie. Some feel-good story this is turning out to be, huh?
By Mark Bradley
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Mr. Hankey
August 25th, 2012
1:25 pm
I’d suggest we refer what we “make” of Mr. Armstrong to the hundreds of cancer patients his committed fund rasing has helped. 500 million aint’ chicken scratch and quite frankly as someone with literally two of my closest friends dying right now after years of battling with the big C, I’d have stuck the needle in his hip myself to ensure this outcome. God bless you, Mr. Armstrong. Any “wrong” decisions you made about doping I suggest will hardly raise an eyebrow on Judgment Day.
Kino
August 25th, 2012
2:35 pm
I call BS. At some point an investigation becomes a witch hunt. The USADA passed that point after the Dept.of Justice determined that Armstrong wasn’t guilty. To consider him guilty because he’s tired of fighting the same idiotic battles over and over again is completely asinine. I never considered you asinine, M. Bradley…until today.
falconfreak
August 25th, 2012
3:02 pm
Well, if that wasn’t a pathetic column. This is the kind of weaselly commentary one gets from columnists these days instead of a bit of investigative reporting. This is why no one knows anything about Obama or just takes what he says at face value.
How about some information on the USADA characters and what their motivations might be. Have you ever heard of a corrupt bureaucrat? Actually, they seem to be the rule and not the exception these days. Lance has passed more tests than any athlete in history and this bureaucrat thinks he has some late breaking evidence which contradicts the hundreds of tests Lance has taken. You as quick to conclude he is guilty as the USADA creeps. Very disappointing but what do you expect from the mainstream media.
sharyn
August 25th, 2012
3:15 pm
I find it sad that USADA had nothing better to do than go after some one who passed all the drug tests. How did they manage to do this. It’s some thing to make me worry whats next with the Justice system when hear say is allowable to go after any one with out cause.I think we all should be concerned. To assume that his team mates are or were dirty is not to be assumed that he was. Remember Mr. Justice you know assume makes a a$$ out u and me.
Ken Stallings
August 25th, 2012
3:38 pm
Like I wrote, the situation is not nearly as clear cut as so many in the media, including Mark Bradley’s column, have made it out to be.
One member of the same team that USADA is claiming ten members are ready to say Armstrong doped is on record as saying that is not the case. Viatcheslav Ekimov was a cyclist on the US Postal Team from 2000-05, and he says he never saw Armstrong dope.
This is all based on the sensational 60 MInutes interview that Tyler Hamilton recently did. Hamilton claimed that Armstrong doped and he also claimed that Armstrong bought his way out of positive drug tests by donating money to UCI and WADA. BTW: WADA is technically the supervising organization for USADA — WADA being the World Anti-Doping Agency and USADA being the United States Anti-Doping Agency. Keep in mind, all three organizations are private organizations who’s authority is limited to tort contracts.
Here is a link to a news article of interest: http://www.statesman.com/sports/pro/lance-armstrong-backed-by-uci-ekimov-over-doping-1493884.html
The article is from the Austin Statesman newspaper.
BTW: Both Floyd Landis and Tyler Hamilton are in legal hot water with UCI for both of them making public claims that UCI deliberately witheld positive drug test results.Landis has already had civil charges filed against him by UCI for slander and libel. Landis and Hamilton are the “star” witnesses being revealed by USADA to back up their demand that Armstrong’s titles be revoked. Also, Hamilton is about to publish a “tell-all” book that will repeat the allegations he has already made in the media.
You don’t think all that would cause a jury in a fair courtroom to take a somewhat jaundiced view of Hamilton’s and Landis’ testimony?
Again, I strongly suspect we haven’t heard the last of this story. I think more is to be revealed and it may well be true that Armstrong has only failed to cooperate with USADA but has other cards to be played, and may not even have to play them himself but merely watch and see what UCI will do.
One more point, today the International Olympic Committee (IOC) also said they are waiting to see what UCI will report once it reviews USADA’s evidence. That surprises me a lot as USADA is the anti-doping agency for all US Olympic sports, and the bronze medal Armstrong won in Sydney would fall under that category. As of this moment, the IOC is not even willing to strip Armstrong of his bronze medal! That says a lot to me also.
Ken Stallings
August 25th, 2012
4:10 pm
Also, Viatcheslav Ekimov himself has never tested positive for doping in his career, but he was the victim of doping. It’s a small world as it was Tyler Hamilton, twice! In the 1988 Seoul Olympics, Ekimov finished with the silver medal to Tyler Hamilton who won the gold in the men’s individual road time trial race. Hamilton had his A sample test positive for PED’s. However, Hamilton got lucky. The lab mistakenly froze his B sample and therefore the B sample could not be tested to meet the requirements for a matching positive test result. So, despite an appeal filed by the Russians, Hamilton kept the gold and Ekimov the silver.
The second time, Hamilton again won the gold and Ekimove the silver, this time at the 2004 Athens games. In 2012 Hamilton confessed about doping and so the IOC stripped Hamilton of his gold and it will be awarded to Ekimov.
So, it seems to me that if anything, being clean himself and having been victimized by dopers, that if Ekimov is saying Armstrong was clean, then perhaps we ought to put more weight on his information than the information from two confirmed cheats like Hamilton and Landis.
Whopper Dawg
August 25th, 2012
4:13 pm
Great example of something the fed should have nothing to do with.
Glenn
August 25th, 2012
4:38 pm
Why did all these second and third place finishers get caught and he never did fail. The man has been basically retired for 7 years. The USADA has been on a witch hunt for years. Go after the one’s cheating now.
JASon
August 25th, 2012
5:54 pm
“This is a terrible time to be a sports fan…”
Great paragraph, bradley. You summed it up beautifully.
afan
August 25th, 2012
6:32 pm
USADA sucks.. I believe Armstrong.
Drew
August 25th, 2012
7:03 pm
You can’t take away the wins because he already won them. It’s history. He’ll always be a 7 time champion of the Tour. It already happened. You can’t change history.
John
August 25th, 2012
7:16 pm
Yes, they can strip the wins. Every sport has that built in protection. How many touchdowns have been scored, but a few moments later were reversed. Did they not score. Sure they did, but somebody cheated (offsides, whatever) and the touchdown was negated. It happened, no it didn’t.
The rules say if you cheat, you run the risk of forfeit a win. Everybody knows that. Lance cheated and got caught.
John
August 25th, 2012
7:22 pm
Idiots. Why in the hell would the USADA take on such a popular figure. Why go there unless you have a mountain of evidence.
The gov of PA waited and waited to bring Paterno in for questioning (he was the DA at the time). Why because he was running for governor and knew that to bring Paterno down would be his downfall. Paterno interviews with grand jury in Jan. 11 months and right after he set the record, Paterno’s interview came to light. The DA knew it would kill his governorship (?) chances.
Again, why would the CEO of USADA go after such an incredibly popular figure as Lance. It was suicide if he didn’t have the evidence.
Dan
August 25th, 2012
7:37 pm
Lance is still the man. Witch hunt is an understatement USADA bunch of sissys. We still admire and believe you Lance.
Ken Stallings
August 25th, 2012
7:48 pm
John,
I cannot answer factually, but neither can you. Either way, it requires to get inside the head of Travis Tygart. But, I will give my guess as to why.
Tygart is building a small empire with USADA. They are raking in millions in donations and millions more in federal government tax payer revenues. If he can “take down” the biggest, most famous athlete in the world who’s career can be touched, then Tygart figures his USADA gets decades of fame and he can build the company even larger. It is his scalp to hang on his wall and he’s been wanting it for well over a decade — about 14 years truth be told.
There is obvious ego at work here. For example, if Tygart was really doing this regretfully, then he would have said words to the effect of, “Today Lance Armstrong decided to withdraw his participation in the arbitration hearing we prepared for him. Acoordingly, USADA is providing all of our evidence to UCI for their review. At this time, USADA is requesting that in accordance with WADA provisions UCI rescend all of Lance Armstrong’s Tour de France titles.”
In other words, that sounds very objective and restrained.
Instead, Tygart sent out press releases purporting that Armstrong’s titles were already forfeit, as though USADA itself has that kind of power (which it does not).
And John, career suicide is exactly where I think this is headed for Tygart and USADA. The evidence is weak I think because if it was strong then UCI would have already done what they have done to every other Tour de France champion who has ever busted a drug test. UCI has not because the evidence USADA has is most likely contrived by busted cheats who were pending federal and civil charges and did this to obtain sweetheart plea bargains.
Again, the day this all went down, serious federal fraud charges against Landis were dropped in return for Landis merely repaying over three years all money he received for his legal defense fund, donations received under Landis’ claims he was innocent of UCI’s charges he dopped. Landis then dropped his legal defense effort and pled guilty to doping once UCI provided Landis with the proof of confirmed positive drug tests.
John
August 25th, 2012
8:29 pm
Lance’s in your face attitude today reminds me of Paterno telling the regents to not worry another second about him and get on to other matters. Ha. Fired, disgraced, dead.
Ken, maybe Lance has a grand scheme here. Wait for Tygart to hang himself, then sue. Yeah, right. My bets are on USADA just like the NFL commish and NOs and Emmert and PSU.
John
August 25th, 2012
8:43 pm
This just in: I read Marion Jones never failed a drug test.
But the winner of 5 medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, forfeited all medals and prizes dating back to September 2000 after her October 2007 admission that she took performance-enhancing drugs as far back as the 2000 Summer Olympics, and that she had lied about it to a grand jury investigating performance-enhancer creations by Victor Conte and the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative.
She never failed a drug test. Lance’s 500 drug tests mean nothing to me.
Andy
August 25th, 2012
8:46 pm
Next thing we know the USADA will be going after Micheal Phelps. They’ll probably say that he drank a Coke within 24 hours of a race and therefore had an unfair advantage due to the caffiene.
godless heathen
August 25th, 2012
9:00 pm
There is only one solution and that is to stop the drug testing of athletes. If the athlete wants to die at 30 for the chance to set records in his/her prime, then that would be their choice.
We could have the GlaxoSmithCline Olympics – Better performance through better chemistry.
Al Smith, sponsored by Eli Libby, set a new world record long jump of 523 feet!!
Sports fans would eat it up. Could you imagine 3 second 100 yard dashes? Just damn, that would be cool!
I’d put USA chemists up against Chinese chemists any day. Team USA might win every friggin’ medal there is. 1-10 in the Tour d’ France – USA. And the Pfizer World Cup? USA all the way!!!
150 home runs a year for a baseball record. Who would not like that??
In the NCAA the chemistry/physiology majors would be highly recruited and might get to share in some of the football program riches.
Geeks would finally get the respect they deserve.
funnyman
August 25th, 2012
9:23 pm
Wow…a BIG YAWN…Look, whoever thinks that pro athletes IN ALL SPORTS are not “juicing” in some form or another is a GIGANTIC FOOL! Here are three MAJOR REAONS: MONEY – MONEY MONEY…from ALL SIDES…promotion, fame, advertisers, investors, “hanger-on-ers”, etc. But the big thing is they have ALL learned how to beat the tests…I heard Victor Conte say that he thinks right NOW 50% of major league baseball players are “juicing” and IF YOU WANT THE PROBLEM FIXED, FIX THE TESTS…only about 60 palyers in MLB are tested EACH YEAR…so ‘what are the odds’ so to speak…and by now ALL athletes know how to “mask”…so let’s get our heads out of our ‘a…..s’ and stop all the “self righteous” “b-s” and stop acting like it matters…we’ll still go to games…still watch the olympics…and LANCE WON IT ALL “FAIR AND SQUARE” (at least by the standards provided)…and the USADA in my mind is JUST LIKE THE NCAA…ALL FOR SHOW TO JUSTIFY ALL THEIR BIG SALARIES…they prosecuted BARRY BONDS…shall I remind us how all that money and time turned out!!! YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK…TO LOSE!!! WOW…OUR GOVERNMENT…WHAT A BUNCH OF IDIOTS…chasing a baseball player and what was the crime again…”lying”…can you say let’s start prosecuting 5th GRADERS and CRYING because somebody lied about…oh gimme a BREAK!
CaptainMudd
August 25th, 2012
9:42 pm
He has been grouped by this author to some rather unsavory company…..in doing so without a solid foundation of guilt is a bit premature…..conclusions regarding L.A. are ‘chained events.’
harold
August 25th, 2012
9:54 pm
He had the best team and best strategy, so his team put him across the finish line in a shorter amount of time than all the other dopers. In my book that is a win.
georgiavol
August 25th, 2012
10:03 pm
Shut up, Bradley! Did I miss something? Did he fail one of his 500 drug tests? Hair, blood, urine, saliva all tested negative. This is purely a witchhunt.
VoteForPedro
August 25th, 2012
10:16 pm
This just in from the brainiacs at the USADA:
“Lance is a cheat because he just was and our hundreds of drugs tests gave wrong results for him all those years, but, um, for everyone else the drug test results were all correct and any/all fines and/or suspensions levied against any other atheles are still legitimate and stand in good order.”
Them USADA people need to stick to rating steaks. They ain’t too bright.
VoteForPedro
August 25th, 2012
10:21 pm
WHAT DO WE MAKE OF LANCE? WHO CARES! WHAT DO WE MAKE OF US USADA DRUG RESULTS NOW? WHAT THE USADA ARE ARGUING SO STRONGLY TODAY IS THAT THEIR DRUG TESTS DONT WORK.
Sammy
August 25th, 2012
11:07 pm
If you throw out Armstrong’s wins, you have to throw out the results for everyone else who lost, right?
They all passed the tests, but if the tests were wrong, you have to throw EVERYTHING out.
Nobody won, nobody lost, nothing ever happened, nothing to see here, move along. Nobody ever raced bicycles. They only raced Nascars. This is America, after all.
Oh my, who is really behind all this? GM? Chrysler? Ford? ExxonMobil? BP? Everyone whose interests are keeping cars in their places on the flagpole just above the American flag and the Bible? Ohhhhhhhhh.
Yeah, if Armstrong golfed or played football or baseball or soccer, nobody would care seven years later about anything he did or did not do.
Bicycling, though. That is the only sport with any redeeming quality. You can perform this sport in lieu of driving a car to get somewhere.
That concept scares the people who have money and power, so if the face of bicycling is slapped hard enough, maybe Joe The Plumber will stick with his car. “Them bicyclers is dopin’ qeers! FORD CHEVY”
John
August 26th, 2012
6:09 am
Lance is a guilty SOB. What you bet the international organization sues to get money back.
Marion Jones passed 160 tests (said another way SHE NEVER FAILED…sound familiar) then in October 2007 admitted that she took performance-enhancing drugs as far back as the 2000 Summer Olympics. See wiki
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Ken Stallings
August 26th, 2012
8:15 am
John,
You are speaking a lot of half truths. Marion Jones was caught in a conspiracy with the BALCO labs and the BALCO labs had detailed paperwork showing Marion Jones taking PED’s. Confronted with this hard evidence, Jones confessed to taking PED’s.
When you can show me this kind of hard evidence that Armstrong doped, then you have something. Until that point, you are speculating. In other words, Armstrong has never had hard evidence against him.
You seem to have a true zeal to show Armstrong guilty without anything in the way of evidence that an actual court of law would accept. Why don’t you wait until the actual controlling agency with a pretty serious record of busting cheats reviews whatever it is that USADA has? Is that really going to cause you personal loss?
You see for me, it doesn’t matter how famous or wealthy a person is. I have a real concern about private companies acting in the manner of courts. In fact all Armstrong has done is to tell a private company to take its business and shove it. The private company then goes on a bender of releasing accusations without releasing their evidence.
How would you like to be treated that way? At what point would any fame or fortune you had mean you should be treated that way? To have your name released by some private company outrightly saying you are guilty and should have the fruits of your decades of labor taken away from you? Strike you as fair?
I want due process of law. Because while you can point out to one example of someone evading capture in the tests, that isn’t enough for me to abandon due process. What kind of society do you really want to live in, John? You want to live in one where decades of voluntarily giving up your privacy to be tested in your home, in hotel rooms, always having to tell your company where you are so they can test you without warning, and despite passing around 500 tests as a condition of your labor, 14 years later some other private company not even around when you did all this calls you a cheat, a liar, a fraud?
That was Armstrong’s life. Is the money and fame he made a fair trade for that in your mind? Is that the kind of world you want for yourself and your family?
I don’t! I want due process. And that sir, is why I reject what USADA is doing here. There is a right way and a wrong way to treat people — even people who may have cheated in a sports program.
Ken Stallings
August 26th, 2012
8:25 am
BTW Mark Bradley, assuming you bother to read these blog replies, is that the kind of society you want to live in? Is that the kind of reality you want your children to live in?
It’s easy to write words Mark, and while your words were more or less responsible, you never did mention all the tests and uniquely stringent lifestyle Armstrong had to live as a condition of his professional cycling.
ksleezy
August 26th, 2012
11:14 am
Nothing changes for me. I think he’s innocent! He’s passed around 500 drug tests and they’ve been on a witch hunt for him since his first Tour de France win. He’ll always be a champion in our house.
Ken Stallings
August 26th, 2012
1:08 pm
Mark Bradley has it seems moved on. But, this story has not. Here are few links from news sources that have had more to report on the story:
This one features a vote of confidence from Miguel Indurain, who won the tour before Lance went on his six consecutive victory tear. Indurain is also free of any busted tests and is seen as an honest rider:
http://dualfit.com/should-lance-armstrong-be-stripped-of-7-tour-de-france-titles/
This column offers a different take from what many others have taken, although there are plenty of columnists even at ESPN who have voiced various degrees of concern of USADA, including one who outrightly says USADA should have left well enough alone.
This article provides a bit more background on the feud between USADA and UCI:
http://velonews.competitor.com/2012/08/news/uci-wants-independent-panel-to-review-usadas-armstrong-case-files-prior-to-sanctions_234070
It has now been 48 hours since USADA ran full steam ahead with their conclusions that their evidence convicts Armstrong and yet they have given none of it to UCI. Don’t be surprised if this ends up ruining WADA and USADA, causing a formal break between professional cycling. If USADA and WADA continue in their refusal to turn the evidence over to UCI it would not surprise me that UCI formally recends its contractual agreements with WADA and in turn USADA.
Lance Cheatstrong
August 26th, 2012
9:06 pm
I would be willing to bet that everyone here who believes Lance is innocent is also a Mitt Romney fan. Has to be a correlation there.
Americans want heroes. And now that the Lance bubble has burst, you all can’t believe it. So sad. Please try and be honest and listen to that inner voice. It is telling you that Lance is a cheat. And so is the rest of the sport, for that matter. So, you can still take solace in the fact that Lance cheated, but he beat a gaggle of cheaters. So that just makes him the best of the worst.
Armstrong doesn’t want his name dragged through the mud in this process. He needs his charity to keep chugging along. And he also needs to live his lavish lifestyle — through appearances and speaking engagements. By saying “I can’t live like this anymore,” it allows him to keep his legacy somewhat intact. Now the world can argue about it and he can act like the victim.
Gotta give Lance kudos for the PR plan.
The Carnivore
August 27th, 2012
9:20 am
He failed THREE tests at least (1999, 2001, and during the 2009 comeback). Read the full USADA report and you will see they had him nailed, that is why he decided to call it quits.
MountainDawg
August 27th, 2012
9:31 am
Armstrong passed every PED test he was ever given. The “mainstream” media seems to berate Armstrong, Clemens, etc., but what about Serena Williams and Usain Bolt? You want to talk about possible PED cheats, give them half the # of tests Lance was given and they’d both be exposed as frauds!
Ken Stallings
August 27th, 2012
9:23 pm
“Lance Cheatstrong,”
Name you chose says it all — too cowardly to post by your given name. But, I’ll make a brief exception and answer you.
Yes, I will vote for Mitt Romney and for the same reasons I have written what I have written here — because I choose to live in a world of hard facts and proof. And with budget deficits tolling over $16 trillion, I realoze that four more years of Obama will bankrupt this nation.
Your other comments come from you after you made the crass statement hoping Armstrong’s cancer would come back. So, that says all I really need to know about you.
It has now been four business days since Armstrong declined the USADA arbitration and which by WADA bylaws requires USADA to give the controlling body of the sport all its evidence. To date, USADA has given nothing to UCI. UCI is not going to wait forever for it. Eventually, after reasonable time has gone by, either USADA turns over its evidence for UCI review or UCI is going to refute USADA and their demands.
Again, those are facts, and so I hardly expect you to pay them any mind.
Sonny Jackson
August 29th, 2012
1:40 am
Who’s the real home run king? Surely you know the answer to that. Henry Aaron. I don’t know a thing about cycling, but I know about baseball, and it is Henry Aaron. And Roger Maris is the holder of the single season record, asterisk notwithstanding.