I might sound a bit dramatic, but that is how I feel, that is truly how I feel.
LIVESTRONG, the cancer-fighting charity continues to distance itself from Lance Armstrong.
The Lance Armstrong Foundation, the organization founded by the now embattled cyclist in 1997, has quietly dropped him from its name and will now be officially known as the Livestrong Foundation.
Foundation spokeswoman Katherine McLane said the name change for the Austin-based charity was approved by the Texas Secretary of State's office on Oct. 30.
The move represents yet another step by the organization to separate itself from its founder, who has been accused in a scathing report by the United States Anti-Doping Agency of running the most sophisticated doping scheme in sports history. Armstrong resigned from the organization's board of directors last week and stepped down as the chairman of the board on Oct. 17.
Livestrong drops Lance Armstrong
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ReplyDeleteIndeed its dramatic and upsetting stuff. I must confess Dr C, Lance has actually turned up in a couple of dreams of mine.
ReplyDeleteIts up to him now how he faces the public and the truth. An appology would go a long way - an appology followed by a wide acceptance of the way cycling was in that decade and a half - outside the few publically condemned, it consumed everyone in the sport with the win or die madness.
Ive been watching old TDF footage on youtube this week - stuff I watched as a kid dreaming of being a pro cyclist and theres no doubt about it, those battles went far beyond sport, and it seems to me maybe they were all suffering during this period. Rather than cheating the public, they were being cooked in the pressure cooker of corporate and public expectations.
I hope Lance steps away from his high powered, mercinary freinds and lifestyle and carries on being Lance, only as a human.
He can do it! And it would be a grand example to the sport!
Great commentary. I apologize for taking so long publishing your comment. Hospital and surgeries took all my time today. I absolutely agree, SENS, an apology would have been apreciated, a sign of honesty coming from him, a sense of decency, you know. But nothing, arrogance is the only thing I felt from him at the end.
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No problem! Sick people dont like to be kept waiting! Yes, you are right about his attitude- I'd like to see him capitulate - we live in a corrupt society built on lies and abuse. If the man realises this during his fall, he can leave the Republican party and can rejoin the human race - the masses need deprogramming!
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