Lance Armstrong was brought down by the actions of a number of people, David Walsh incuded. We asked David who the heroes of the story are.
This is one of our series of seven exclusive videos with David Walsh on Lance Armstrong, where he answers many questions relating to Armstrong and to his book “The Seven Deadly Sins: My Pursuit Of Lance Armstrong” which can be bought here: http://gcn.eu/VQzWTj
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A number of inspirational people who risked a lot and in some cases lost a lot by standing up for the truth in the Lance Armstrong affair are David Walsh’s heroes of cycling over the last 13 years. Has he missed anyone and do you agree? Tell us in the comments.
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25 Comments
Great job
The perseverance of these fine people will hopefully make our sport great again. Great videos, fantastic insight and FOC to boot!
Antidoping and integrity are the killers of our sport
If we knew what.s going on in all other sports, we'd be very surprised, I'm quite sure it's just as bad.
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True hero is David Welsh for perusing this cheat .
And Paul Kimmage too as a true hero as far as journos go.
It takes courage to risk being a "failure" because one is unwilling to buy into cheating and corruption when "everybody else is doing it." A handful of riders and journalists wanted the truth when the others were happy to ride the gravy train. Men and women of iron.
is professional cycling clean now,who knows,ledopage goes hand in hand with letour
Lance Armstrong the greatest cyclist ever, The Legend.
Cheating: To act dishonestly or unfairly in order to gain an advantage.
From what I can see, Lance did not cheat as everyone in the top percentile doped.. lance had no "unfair" advantage from the other riders.
Yeahhhhhh New zealand
Horner took a crap on cycling getting clean
I think thats too simplistic although i get where you're coming from. But with that attitude, doping is condoned and the sport becomes not about who is the most talented, but who can dope the best. In fact, the money Lance spent on keeping his doping secret and employing the best doping doctors and suing those who questioned him in order to shut them up, ensured that he most certainly did gain an unfair advantage even over the other dopers.
It is widely understood that just because lots of them doped it didn't mean it was a level playing field. The riders with the best doctors, medical support, traffickers and risk takers were the best. Armstrong was a top 30 rider at best without drugs, plenty of evidence for this from those who know what they're talking about. He did have an advantage.
Everyone was doping since Delgado… and before. Everyone knows that if you didn't dope you were not likely going to even finish the tour, never mind win. Lance was no different. To make Lance out to be some doping demon is to forget that every other team was doping. Festina, PDM, etc…
No heroes, they would have been heroes if they had brought down the UCI for their fraud, of banning drugs that could not be detected at the time!
This is the best video on your awesome channel. Perfect question with a very sincere, honest response from David Walsh to give credit to those who deserve it. David Walsh needs to add his name to that list, too.
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. The truth is that the determination of Lance Armstrong to win at any cost was always epic, and the resentment of ppl like David Walsh's was always pedestrian… 😉
Walsh has/had an unhealthy obsession with Armstrong and made a career out of him!! Armstrong was a doper NOT a serial murderer!!
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
Lance is a druggie thug
Here’s the truth! All competitive tour riders are dopers. Yes, they all use illegal performance enhancing drugs for training. They all take a chance that the uci will not order a surprise test. If they do, masking agents are used to cover-up any illegal drugs in their blood. It usually works but sometimes it doesn’t. The UCI is very corrupt and can’t even be trusted to police their own sport! There’s too much money! Money is the root of all evil. Part of Lances problem was that cycling is a European sport. The UCI and others can’t stand seeing a American totally dominating their sport. Sad. No integrity!
Yes, all competitive riders of the tour are dopers. It will always be that way. There’s nothing anyone can do. The best solution is to have a standard test Administered at the beginning of the tour, during, and the end, but no testing during the off season.
The UCI is corrupt. Get rid of the corruption first.