Boo. Hoo.
Lance Armstrong went on the Today show Thursday to lament how hard life has been since he admitted to being one of the biggest frauds in sports history, whining how unfair it is that other cheats aren’t the pariah he is.
“I do think there’s a double standard,” Armstrong said. “But I’m OK with it.”
Sure he is.
The blind ego and arrogance that seeped through his interview Thursday is exactly why Armstrong remains so reviled.
That he doped his way to seven Tour de France titles was bad, of course. Sports is supposed to be about the purity of competition and athleticism. As Armstrong has rightly pointed out, though, he wasn’t some rogue cheater in a pristine sport. Everyone in cycling at the time was pumped full of PEDs and EPO.
