Lance Armstrong

It will be fascinating to see what he actually had to say about it all later this week. Sure the admission of doping is a certainty but I get the impression from this piece that he has once again not been completely frank about everything.

There are so many potential other issues to come out of his admission, with others being implicated and named and the question of financial penalties.

The Sunday Times had to pay him $1.6 million in a libel case, the Insurance company suing him for $11 million for performance bonuses they paid him and an Australian State has indicated that they would actively seek the appearance money they paid him to take part in races there, to raise the profile.

There's a potential $30 million lawsuit that Floyd Landis has filed saying that Armstrong defrauded the US Postal Service who sponsored Armstrong's cycling team, as well as a potential case of perjury for lying during a previous court case.

Cycling is now, or has been for years, tainted and under a cloud of suspiscion. The article shows that 17 of the previous Tour de France winners since 1980 have links to doping, and it's 14 of the last 17 years winners who have cheated.

It must be soul destroying for the cyclists who were just not quite able to break into the bigtime and were clean, but who were strong enough to refuse to take the doping route, to now think that they gave the sport up because they weren't considered good enough when in reality they may have been the best legal cyclist all along.

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