Lance Armstrong

I'm shocked, I tell you, shocked. I had no idea. Who could?!?!?! I'd have put good money down in Vegas that of course he was the only clean rider out there.

About a dozen years ago, a relative of mine, a French geneticist, had fun taunting me with his accusations that Armstrong was as dirty as they come. I argued that he was just a jealous frog upset that a Yank kept winning his beloved bicycle riding race. Turns out he was right all along.

Armstrong is nothing but a lying thief and should forever be regarded as such.

Apparently Armstrong was not alone - his team mates and sponsor had to be in on the deceit. Says a lot about today's "athletes" and the money behind them. He has disappointed thousands of young people who looked up to him. His beating cancer and world titles are now just a pathetic story.

He needs to pay back anything he has left in his own personal accounts that he received from sponsors and donors. Bankrupt his sorry ass. From all indications he is simply a liar and a thief. I guess they both go together. Is professional wrestling the only honest sport going today. ........

Guilty until proven innocent?

An unbefitting messiah complex clad in X-Men yellow. Screw him and the Trek he rode in on.

His crime is no different from the hundreds(thousands?) of Major League Baseball players guilty of the same crime who still own the record books and appear on the Hall Of Fame Induction ballots each year.

Give lots fo credit to the cycling association for putting cheaters in their place. MLB can learn alot here.

I agree with the general thrust of what you write. But one significant difference is that cycling had an antidoping program in place throughout Armstrong's reign. That program yielded thousands of blood and urine samples that could be tested, often years later as techniques evolved.

Baseball didn't have that. The league liked the homers, and the players union fights pretty much everything.

And so MLB lacks an objective means to prove its suspicions about Bonds, Giambi, Sosa, Rodriguez, McGwire, and lots more. They'd be forced to prove doping by circumstantial evidence, usually from shady witnesses who supplied the drugs.

Comparing the two sports isn't apples and oranges, but it's probably apples and pears.