KneesUp
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Whilst admitting he isn't the most qualified person to talk about cheating at sport, Armstrong, it seems, holds the rules of golf, and the spirit in which it is played, in high regard:
The most interesting bit to me though is the line
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose ...
Quotes from The Guardian
"You might consider me the last guy to have anything to say about cheating, but golf is different. I love adhering to a code of honour that we in cycling didn’t have. If I moved my ball in the rough and got caught, I wouldn’t just regret it, I’d be heartbroken forever. When I think about reform in cycling, I think about golf.”
Of course it is interesting that he refers to the 'code of honour' that didn't exist in cycling - and I think that is a huge part of why doping took off - that almost everyone was doing it and the authorities were doing nothing about it, so the only way to have a level playing field was to also cheat.
The most interesting bit to me though is the line
If I moved my ball in the rough and got caught, I wouldn’t just regret it, I’d be heartbroken forever.
specifically the highlighted bit. It's not the cheating that would bother him, it's the cheating and being caught.
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose ...
Quotes from The Guardian