To dislike Lance Armstrong even more after watching his interview with Oprah

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So I can imagine for legal reasons he perhaps couldn't give too many specifics without directly accusing/implicating others but I just thought his answers were largely evasive and frankly i thought he was lying a lot even during the interview.

He didn't seem sorry one bit!! (except for getting caught). Arrogant prick. I thought Oprah was 'OK' but let him off quite lightly.

Very sad some sports are tarnished with people like this.

I think his lifetime ban should remain and he should be blocked from competing in ANY professional sporting event in the future (he's expressed a desire to do triathlon).

I feel sorry for him. Yes he cheated and has bought his sport into disrepute but he's overcome a hell of a lot and for that itself he will always be something of a legend in my eyes

I agree... he cheated and bullied others. No excuse for that.

Yes, he has overcome a lot too but it doesn't make him a better person.

He did not participate in the official investigations and that is why he has a lifetime ban...others in his team only got 6m. So he had a choice, he choose to carry on lying and evading.

I dont feel sorry for him he cheated took drugs to win and enhance his fame he seemed smug and arrogant in his interview well the bits i have seen, the thing i dont understand how did he get away with it, and If he can lie for years what is to say he wasn't lying and being evasive on oprah

he comes across as an arrogant twat to be honest - I am not keen

He has also done a lot of good through the livestrong foundation.

YANBU, I don't feel sorry for him in the slightest. He has been exposed as a narcissistic bully and liar IMO and he really has bought the sport of road cycling to a new low.

He lied and relentlessly pursued people who spoke out against him, he really can't have any moral code at all!

And I want my money back for his book, it's a pile of lies

He is a cold, cold man. His face didn't change the whole way through the interview and he made it blindingly obvious that he is only sorry he got caught out.
YANBU

He is just sorry he got caught isn't he

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Yanbu.

He came across as arrogant and entirely unrepentant.
There is no excuse for cheating, at any level of sport and he deserves the ban. And I wish in a way Oprah had never done this, as he doesn't deserve any publicity.

Yanbu, I was indifferent before but now I think he is a twat.

Fut - cancer doesn't just happen to 'good' people, you can still be a survivor and an arsehole.

I wonder why all professional sporting bodies don't impose instant lifetime bans for drug use?

Fut so did Jimmy Saville - doesn't stop him being a twat

I think he is banned from professional (prize winning, league) Triathlons at the moment. And would you want him turning up at your local amateur event? He's not going to find it a challenge, anyway.

I feel sorry for him, too. I never liked him but it's become a fascinating life story. Such highs and lows!! Where will he be in 5 or 10 years?

The threads about Armstrong have also taught me how much some people enjoy a hate figure. :(

Yanbu! Think the man is an utter waste of oxygen to be honest. I cannot abide a cheat but to then claim he is innocent and go around suing everybody who is saying otherwise and ruining them them, is just beyond disgusting.

Also what about the other competitors at that time who were clean. Their time to compete at that level is over and they have not achieved what maybe they should have if the top 10 hadn't been a ring of cheats.

My sympahies lie with the people who have lost out in al lof this, not Lance Armstrong. He should be jail!

He may have cost cycling its place in the Olympics
sports.yahoo.com/blogs/olympics-fourth-place-medal/olympics-could-drop-cycling-over-lance-armstrong-revelations-131728949--oly.html

So disappointed in him. He didn't want to answer the allegations in the proper way, instead chose Oprah. Arrogant and only sorry he got caught. I used to love him! That autobiography has gone in the bin. What a sham. That poor physio who first accused him of taking drugs was sued, and called a whore and a liar by Armstrong. Feel ashamed to have ever liked him! The work he did for Livestrong way overshadowed by the money he took in endorsements for ill-gotten success.

is his physio and irish woman ? i saw her on tv this week

Not sure. Just read about her. She was the first one to suspect. And she got absolutely ruined by him. And all he says now "yeah I need to apologise to her". Ya think?? Jerk.

He is a deplorable person. A cheat, a liar, and a bully. Totally agree that he has robbed 'clean' competitors who may have achieved their lifetime's ambition during his 'glory' years. I am delighted that we have witnessed his 'downfall'. If it had dragged on beyond his years of competing in whatever he is interested in it may well have been swept under the carpet. He sucks.

There was an irish woman on tv the other morning or a clip and she was laying into him calling him all sorts I just wondered if she was the physio I wasn't really watching

I think she was the one he was talking about in the interview when he said something like "I didn't call her fat though" and fixated on that rather than what he did say about her. Tosser.

Just seen something on BBC news btw, apparently he still hopes to compete in the future despite the lifetime ban. If he ever gets the chance I really do hope that anyone competing against him refuses to even get on a bike when he's around!

Just what BringMeTea said.. Totally agree with that post.

I feel sorry for people who had him as a role model, and I feel sorry for people who have raised money for his charity who must now feel duped.