I watched the 60 minutes report last night, and it was even more damning that I imagined. Not only does it appear that Lance will go down, but that the very highest officials in sport could be implicated as well.
Lance need not only worry about his reputation--he could be on his way to prison.
I've been trying to get an overall sense to what the sporting public's reaction to all of this is. I think that the reaction has been tepid. Maybe because of weariness. A retired athlete in a sport that no one cares about cheated his way to the top.
Lance will play this all the way to the end, hoping for a "not guilty" verdict, and then proclaiming that the entire thing was a witch hunt against an innocent man who wants to do nothing but fight cancer.
The only shocking thing that could happen at this point would be if Lance confessed and started cooperating with the authorities.
|