For serveral years and more intense recently Lance Armstong has been under scrunitiy for cheating, using banned substances and lying. This seven times Tour de France winner and Olympic Brozne medalist has recently been stripped of all trophies and medals ever won in professional sport. He also took part in a no holds interview with the Queen of interviews Oprah.
Although, Lance Armstrong, the sport of cycling and most likey Lances charity, Livestong have all been disgraced. There are still many unanswered questions. I hope in the light of recent events more in depth interviews are carried out and some sort of justice is made. This man has cheated his way to success, demolished millions of peoples hope and dreams, and something needs to be done to clean up the sport of cycling.
Whilst talking to my house mate about this issue, he expressed a view of "he was just a cyclist, he didn't murder loads of people, why is there so much news on him, it's just pointless". While I do slightly agree with him, Lance isn't a murder of people. But he has slayed dreams of young people wanting to be like him, cancer surviveors who admire him, cycling fanatics who love the sport. One mans mistake and wrong doing is another mans broken dream.
Sports people are made great by their talents, the support around them and their loyal followers. They are pushed to succeed by themselves, their team and supporters. So when they cross the finish line first or win the match, they owe a lot to themselves and everyone who got them there. So them being a good role model to people isn't much to ask when so many people have helped these sports people achieve greatness.
Lance has not only cheated like many other cyclists in the past. He lied, continuously and defiantly. That is what I think is the one thing that hurts so many more people than him just cheating his way through, Lying... A powerful and hurtful thing.
However I also understand that the sport person feels a huge amount of pressure from all angles in their life . Us the viewers, sports fans and wanna be champions, we all play our part in demanding more from these people. For example, Wanting a better competition, more hills, faster races, and indirectly forcing the race organisers to make it like this. Perhaps forcing is too strong there, as they didn't have to make it extremely hard, I'm sure the Tour would still be successful and create lots of money. But who knows...
Going back to the interview, lance with Oprah. One of my un answered questions is why Oprah? Watching highlights and things, Oprah wouldn't have been my first choice to interview this man. She, for me, doesn't delve deep enough in certain areas and just brushes over others.
However, she did manage to get the truth, which is always a start.
Here are some clips from both part one & two of the interview. Please check them out, they are definatly worth while.
Part one
http://espn.go.com/sports/endurance/story/_/id/8854829/situation-was-one-big-lie
Part two
http://espn.go.com/sports/endurance/story/_/id/8858810/highlights-part-2-lance-armstrong-oprah-winfrey-interview
You can catch the full part on the discovery channel at 8pm tonight.
Lance is definatly emotional, but I still feel he hasn't quite opened up fully. He doesn't seem sorry enough, just not enough of anything. But then he may just be in world wind of emotions, or a professional liar.
Let me know your thoughts and views.
Wally woman x
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