Friday, February 1, 2013

Give Lance another chace

A recent article by CNN called "Give Lance another chances" that was compose by  of six people ( Frida Ghitis, Randy Cohenm, Roxanne Jones, Jeff Pearlman, Kevin Powell, and Shawn Klein), they all make some excellent points whether Lance Armstrong deserves another chance after admitting to using performance enhancing drugs. Lance admitted it to using performance enhancing drugs on his interview with Oprah after constant denying, not being able to cycle again and being stripped of his seven tour De France titles. Ghitis says "Lance Armstrong's story of triumph over adversity captured the imagination of millions around the world, that's because Armstrong's achievements -- recovering from cancer and then breaking records in the cycling world -- made him a source of inspiration, an icon of hope." which i completely agree with he did most good then non and didn't really hurt no one. Lance is 42 probably wasn't going to do much more racing anyway and many other cyclist were also using performance enhancing drugs as well, "If many cycling fans are right, most of the top riders engaged in doping. You simply can't compete against them without doing the same. What was Lance to do? Quit the sport? And who inherits his Tour titles? Some other cheat?" said Randy Cohenm. I think Armstrong deserves another to make to make up for his wrongs and still be a good role model. Now that secrets come to let light we'll see who he really is when the cameras off.

1 comment:

  1. Good post. Would like you to do a bit more with part 4 of the blog post format. 85

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