It seems like the “evidence” is piling up, but Armstrong’s attitude through all this is to deny it.  Not just deny it, he gets legal on anyone that accuses him of this stuff.  He goes on the offensive and sues the hell out of them for libel and so forth….and he wins or there is a settlement.  That’s the part of it that confuses me.  If he is in fact guilty, this is a genius strategy, but if he’s guilty why have none of the law suites gone against him in court?  It seems like the french have been after him forever…but they have had no “solid” proof.

The only other plausible explanation for this is that he is guilty and the professional organizations are conspiring to keep him clean publicly.  I could see that.  Armstrong has brought a bit of notoriety to biking and a cult following of sorts.  Maybe the powers that be have decided that he is of greater value to them with a clean record than to “bring out the truth”.   There is certainly some validity to that point of view.

On a personal level Armstrong has meant a little to me as a symbol of triumph.  Given some family history, he seemed to ring through as a beacon of hope.  If he’s dirty, it doesn’t really taint that idea, he still survived…but it does harm his overall image to me personally.  If he’d have come out and said “yeah I did it” I’d have been fine with that…but if this turned out to be a big cover up his stature would diminish just a little bit in my eyes.  But it’s not like that means anything to L.A.

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