As stated around in the newsworld within the last 24 hours, the seven-fold winner of the Tour de France, will return in the cycling-sports next year.
Why?
According to Armstrong himself, he wants to boost public awareness on the issue of cancer. Giving it a little thought, who can claim, that is not a very honorable reason?
Certainly, I can’t.
As claimed in this excerpt from The International Herald Tribune -
Stapleton cautioned that Armstrong’s return would not necessarily be well received by everyone involved in cycling. Although Armstrong’s career was filled with amazing achievements, it was not without its dark clouds. As a rider, he was dogged by suspicions about doping.
“He can be polarizing,” Stapleton said. “There may be a different view in Europe about this than in the United States. It’s a provocative issue.”
- I as a European, or perhaps just, as a now-and-then-cycling sports-viewer stumbled upon this thought:
I can’t help wonder, if Lance Armstrong, as so many of his fellow competitors were indeed doped – with the exception, that Armstrong was only a little bit wiser and smarter, so he never got caught. (I believe, having heard Armstrong communicating with the media, that he is definitely intelligent, way above the average of cycling sports riders in general.)
- and if so… with these day’s more efficient doping controls, he thought this thought: “If everybody are clean, or at least much cleaner in general today, than four or five years ago, then could I win the Tour one more time, clean?”
I have to admit it: It’s obviously pure speculation from my side. It’s questioning very noble motifs and reasons on his behalf, but then again: Someone has to ask…
What do you think?
