Landis comes clean on PED use
May 20th, 2010 by admin
Story here.
Wow.
He spends 4 years telling everybody he’s innocent, blames everybody – the media, the French, doping officials – for making him a pariah in his sport…so now his course of action is some lame attempt at making himself feel better by throwing his entire sport under the bus? Including all the people that stood by him?
What a complete tool. If he really wanted to ‘come clean’ he would have confessed to his actions. Trashing others – with no actual, you know, evidence – reeks of the kind of selfish behaviour that someone on the verge of self-destruction resorts to when they realize they’re ruined, and they have no one else to blame. By ‘naming names’ he’s trying to create a justification for his cheating – ‘see, everyone else was doing it’.
Shameless, gutless, honorless. On top of that, I’m disappointed because now we’ll have to listen to a month of ‘when is Lance going to get caught’ stories during the upcoming Tour de France, instead of focusing on the actual race.
I pretty much agree. It seems like it has died down to a large degree, I’d guess because he put so little credible information out other than assertions and accusations. That may all change next week during the Tour, of course.
If anything good comes out of it, it would be that the Feds in the US are investigating this and it may one way or another, finally put an end to the never-ending rumors about Armstrong. Wait—I’m kidding myself. Should nothing come out of it, we’ll have the conspiracy theory crowd out about how Lance got away with it again.
I once had some respect for Landis, but after this, when it is obvious that coming clean about doping and concern for the sport was not his motivation, I have none left. Very sad for the guy.