Lance Armstrong is Texan of the Year
After a series of embarrassing moments in the season, Lance Armstrong finally has something to cheer about as Dallas Morning News nominated him as the Texan of the Year for 2012 season.
However, the honour not necessarily depicts the positive aspect as the Dallas newspaper calls him, “a fighter, a survivor and a cunning, steely-eyed liar” after doping scandal was made public by USADA.
The cyclist is currently serving a life-ban from the sport and has also been stripped-off from all his previous victories since 1998 which also include seven overall wins at the Tour de France.
“The Dallas Morning News Texan of the Year is a distinction we bestow for impact, be it for better or for worse. It reflects the prominence of what Texans do, not what we’d prefer them to do. If nothing else, it’s a lesson about the perils of hero worship”.
Armstrong used performance enhancing drug throughout his career and achieved desired results previously in his career during his stay with the former American side, Team USPS.
He involved several cyclists, doctors and team officials to pull off one of the most perfect doping scams in history of the sports.
He was tested several times and despite several doping allegations the cyclist managed to come clean every single time and continued cheating for over a decade.
However, USADA’s detailed investigation that included the recorded confession of as many as 26 former cyclists was enough to prove him guilty.
Eleven out of those 26 riders were Lance’s former teammates including Frankie Andreu, Michael Barry, Tom Danielson, Tyler Hamilton, George Hincapie, Floyd Landis, Levi Leipheimer, Stephen Swart, Christian Vande Velde, Jonathan Vaughters and David Zabriskie.
UCI President Pat McQuaid noted earlier, "The UCI will also recognise the sanctions imposed upon the riders who testified against Lance Armstrong. The UCI indeed thanks them for telling their stories".
"The information available to the UCI at the time was much more limited to what we have now,” he concluded.
Lance Armstrong has not challenged the court decision as the last date to appeal has already been passed and it seems like the cyclist has admitted his fate and is content on spending the rest of his life thinking about the Tour de France victories that
he never won.
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