Legendary cyclist Lance Armstrong has been stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and is banned from the Olympics after he failed to meet the deadline for challenging the USADA's doping investigation. He will be deemed disqualified from every event he has participated in since August 1st, 1998. Armstrong claims he did nothing wrong but, "enough is enough". Read more about this controversial stroy here. What do you think?
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I think that people could see both sides of the argument. He did train hard to earn those titles, but he had to use enchancing drugs to do it.
He is a great guy who has done alot of charities for cancer survivors and much more. Getting his tittles strip must be hard on him and his many fans that he has made a differece for in there life. I hope that this investigation continues and they know for sure that he did or did not dope.
Maybe they should have figured this out a long time ago, instead of now. He's had these titles and awards for years, I think it's a little too late to change it now.
In a way I feel sorry for him but in another aspect it is his fault. He knew the deadline and I think if he honestly felt like he should keep his titles, he probably would have made the deadline. Any way you look at it is sad.
I feel sorry for Lance, but he misses the deadline, and most of the time you know of it ahead of time. I agree to the disqualifications, but stripping him from all of his winnings is a little harsh. I feel sad for him and want him to compete, but its just like the teacher giving a strict deadline, you accidently miss it, 50% off, some other kid misses it, talks his walk out of it and getts an A. A deadline is a deadline, no matter who you are.
I can see this both ways. Lance didn't use his better judgement when using what he did. So I see why they stripped him of all of his wins etc. But I can understand why he would be upset about losing all his medals etc.
Things would be different if he hadn't done wrong things.
I think that is stupid. He won the medals fair and square. He trained and worked hard to get them.
I feel sorry for him all those years of training gone for nothing, but that is the price you would pay for using "performance enhancers" when even the fraction of a second matters.