No matter what happens as a result of the current investigation into his having used performance enhancing drugs, Lance Armstrong is committed to continue the work of his Livestrong organization.
That from an interview in the new issue of Bicycling Magazine.
Also in the issue a commentary by Bill Strickland, their editor-at-large who conducted the interview, and who spent a season with Lance’s racing team and ended up writing the book Tour de Lance.
Strickland said he once was “an agnostic” on the question of whether Lance cheated. He is no longer. He’s convinced he did in fact take performance enhancing measures.
His reasons are rather convoluted, saying in part: ” My catalyst was another one of those statements that was never said by someone I never talked with. It was not from one of Armstrong’s opponents. It was not from anyone who will gain any clemency by affirming it under oath. It was an admission that doping had occurred, one disguised so it could assume innocence but unmistakable to me in meaning.”
Huh?
The full essay and the interview with Lance appear in the new issue of Bicycling.
