Non-cycling friends and relatives have been cautiously asking what I think about Lance Armstrong for a while now. I’d been rooting for him ever since I saw him and Frankie Andreu race in the streets of Lancaster, PA around the time he was making his comeback from cancer. I think we’re talking about fifteen years ago. So 2012 was a pretty disappointing year. And here’s what I think
Now that both parts of the Oprah-Lance interview are over, we need the passage of time to see what Lance Armstrong does with his life. 
Only in historical context will we know how to judge what he said.
From what we learned in 2012, Armstrong makes Ebenezer Scrooge look like Nelson Mandela on a good day.
I have three things to say. First of all, I think Armstrong has lost any right to expect others to care about what he wants. For example, I don’t want to see his lifetime ban lifted, even if the super-duper competitor in him yearns to run the NYC Marathon on his 50th birthday. He doesn’t deserve to be let back on the playround.
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