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Hopefully Lance may be back on Claire's Christmas card list shortly as rumour has it that he confessed all to Oprah. 😉 I knew he would come clean soon ...... 🙄 ....or is clean the wrong word?!
If you don't read anything else about Lance Armstrong, read this handy summary of the story so far by Bloomberg Business Week:
Will I be staying up late to watch the Oprah interview? No, I'll catch up another time....
Meanwhile, I will be interested to see the SCA and Landis lawsuits against LA, and waiting to see if the US Justice Department joins in or not? Also, Dick Pound and the IOC are putting pressure on McQuaid and Verbruggen to resign. Then there is the UCI's own Independent Commission concerned that witnesses will not come forward without an amnesty. Then the Landis suit is naming names that were not made public in the USADA case.
What was the involvement of Thom Weisel with Verbruggen and USA Cycling? Jim Ochowitz of BMC with all of that too? There is clearly a big difference between having a business connection, and actually being involved in something. However, who paid and received bribes? Who covered up positive doping tests? Whose business links were inappropriate? Who doped? Who lied? Who threatened and slandered?
The whole situation is not something Mark Fabiani, LA's PR guru can continue to attribute to 'trolls' and 'haters', and it is not something that can be brushed under the carpet so that we can all move forward. This story will run for some time to come, with wide repercussions for cycling worldwide.
Watch this space.
