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Yeah agreed a lot of them cheated.
Maitre Jacques admitted that they took drugs most of the time.
No one is calling anyone a saint. But armstrong took the destruction of all foes to another level. Look at what happened to Simeoni, all he did was tell the truth about ferrari.
So we have:
Lemond, O'reilly, Walsh, Kimmage, The Andreu's, Simeoni etc all of whom he went out of his way to destroy when they expressed doubts.
Of all of those Lemond is the most shocking as all he did was state that if armstrong wasn't clean, it would be the greatest fraud. And as a result of that Armstrong destroyed his business, revealed that Lemond had been abused by his uncle, said he was a drunk and drug addict.
Sorry but in my book he hasn't been shamed enough. All of those you listed did not do anything like the shameful attempts to destroy others lives as armstrong did.
And BTW i'm not angry at him. I just think karma by way of the whistleblower suit is going to screw him a treat.
But he's called Lancelot!
[i]Do those of you who follow road cycling think the sport is still riddled with doping? [/i]
Riddled? No
Are there riders taking banned substances (with the implicit connivance or knowledge of people/teams that should know better)? Undoubtedly
[i]there is no benefit to getting angry at him, its done, the federal case will bury him financially and he has no reputation beyond that of a cheat.[/i]
As other's have said, and I agree with, it's not merely the cheating, it's the contempt with which he treated everyone around him whether they were friends team-mates, rivals, people who dared question. If ever there was a candidate for being cast alone to a desert island, it is surely this man.