The Oprah Interview

6 thoughts on “The Oprah Interview”

1. Our society loves and praises winners. This has caused many of us to develop the “win at all costs” attitude. Being the competitor that Lance is, he saw the lay of the land and adapted. Track & Field and Cycling have been traditionally the dirtiest of sports with regard to performance enhancing drugs.

   First we witnessed Lance’s great athletic achievements, then his great motivation for cancer, then his great hoax. Will he be a great politician?

   Not all cartoons should make us laugh, sometimes they should make us think. Thank you Drew for making us think as well as laugh.

2. good morning from Omaha,

   I have been a fan of lance and even would get up early in the morning to catch the tour just to see him ride. Yes I still watch the tour every year and enjoy the sport of bike riding. Lance and his attempts to win where just a reason to watch.

   bigger faster stronger. wasnt that the slogan for the olympics a few years ago. In the NFL they look across the line at their competition and realize they should have done 10 more reps in the weight room

   Lance has really opened up a can of worms for himself and his fellow competitors that he has gone after hammer and tong to claim his innocence. Am I disappointed in Lance, yes. But lifeis full of disappointments and above all lance is human and prone to disappoint. Does this detract from his battle with cancer and all the good that livestrong has done across the country and the world. Hopefully not.

   The fallout has yet to begin for lance. all we can do is stand back and watch how lance handles his fall from grace. Hopefully he will handle this with the grace and ease of his trek bike going around a hairpin curve as he races down the mountain of shame and ruination.

   Strive for excellence, nothing but your best.

   Gene

3. I know that the “Everyone else is cheating, too!” lineis no defense, and one that leads down the road that brought us Baseball from 1990-2007, but…

   But by most accounts, the entire field was, has been, and likely still are doing the same thing. There’s talk of trying to flip Armstrong on other riders, also. This will still go on as long as the banned substances and practices can’t be tested for and the World Cycling Drug Politboro (or whatever they’re called) relies on cyclists snitching each other out.

   I’m still a fan. Lance overcame a usually-lethal disease, worked his way back and did whatever it took (to a fault, it would seem) to the top of an extremely competitive sport, and along the way raised Brazillions for cancer research and created a burgeoning following for cycling in the US – a sport that few Americans even knew existed 25 years ago. He’s also an independent thinker and fan of science. None of that has changed – he just broke some rules of a sport and couldn’t being himself to admit it.

   It’s really boiling down to this: For seven years in a row, Lance Armstrong cheated to defeat a field of hundreds of other cheaters.

4. Or, to put it another way – my favorite sports site, Deadspin:

   http://deadspin.com/5976386/

   (Warning! Quite NSFW)

5. Dear Drew,

   I feel betrayed by Lance. I’m sure you might remember how I use to write on this site that the allegations was nothing more than a witch hunt. Boy do I feel like a moron for having faith in him now.

   It seems the big debate is over his “legacy” some point to the now admitted doping while others praise his good works. Now this may be a rotten comparison but I have nothing else to compare it to. In the 30’s when Al Capone was sent to prison for “income tax evasion” not all were happy about it. People talked about the good he did supplying soup kitchens for the unemployed and their families. Like that by doing that it absolved him of what he did wrong.

   Now granted Lance Armstrong didn’t kill anybody but the fact of his charity can’t pull the shade’s over the fact that he cheated to get this fame in the firsts place.

   All the best

   Louis

6. Cycling was always the dirtiest of the dirty sports. I understand and I get it. But to go through with all the attacks on those that threatened to tell the truth is beneath my contempt.

   However, I respect all the good that he did. Livestrong raised so much money for a great cause and there have been no signs of bad behaviors at Livestrong, so there isn’t an issue there.

   Overall, my opinions of lance haven’t changed. He lied when there was no reason for him to lie. His attacks against those that told the truth about him disgust me and he will never be ok in my book.