Quote Originally Posted by theillest View Post
Why would Lance Armstrong be one of the biggest scumbags in the history of sports? If that assertion is based on, a) he doped, and b) he pressured everyone else to dope, including really young/impressionable guys, you should reconsider. PED use is the standard in pro sports. Lance Armstrong won those because of work ethic and freakish genetics. I'd agree that he is one of the biggest scapegoats in the history of sports.
That has to be the weakest defense I've seen yet. Armstrong won because he doped more and doped better and got his teammates to dope to help him.

If it was just him doping, sure, strip his records and titles and forget about him. What makes him a scumbag is being the driving force behind doping his team - including basically kids - and even a major driving force behind doping in cycling as a whole.

Also, his hubris is incredible. He's been doping since at least the late 90s and denied it the entire time, building up this completely false clean-cut image of himself. He would do anything to win, no matter how scummy or what effect it had on other people.