You cannot watch or enjoy pro cycling with out the little doubt in the back of your head that whichever rider you are seeing is doping. Any one rider could easily be doping at any given time.
This is not because of Armstrong it's long been the way in cycling. The biggest names in cycling were dopers, but nobody has the hate that Armstrong does. His work outside of cycling is incredible as well. Regardless of doping, he's an extremely hard working, ambitious, determined individual and that is to be respected.
He was the best cyclist of all time. And he still cycles almost everyday and fanboys like me can give him kudos on strava.
And the Kray twins were lovely to their dear old ma and never killed a man that didn't deserve it.
Nobody is denying the depth and bredth of doping in LAs time, nor before and to a lesser degree (hopefully) after but the rest were content to skulk in the shadows and lie/deny and change the subject.
LA garners the hate he does because of the heavy handed and vindictive manner in which he went out deliberately to brutalise and defame critics and those telling the truth about him when he didn't want the truth told.
You can be a doper without being a tulip about it. LA seemed not to realise that.
I still fancy seeing the film, I'm intrigued by that side of his nature and the seeming industrialisation of team doping that he engendered that took Festina's '98 work to a whole new level. Also that the likes of Emma O'Reilly (?) and Bassons seem willing to forgive or at least understand.
