Here you will find The Telegraph’s interesting, nuanced conversation with Lance Armstrong about his reputation and the state of cycling since he left the sport in disgrace. Here you will find an important pullquote:
Lance Armstrong says he is ‘cycling’s answer to Voldemort’
Sorry for saying his name just then.
“I’m that guy everybody wants to pretend never lived,” he says. “But it happened, everything happened. We know what happened. Now it’s swung so far the other way... who’s that character in Harry Potter they can’t talk about? Voldemort? It’s like that on every level. If you watch the Tour on American TV, if you read about it, it’s as if you can’t mention him.”
First of all, Lance nailed the allusion he was trying to make. He is indeed He Who Must Not Be Named in the world of cycling, for better or worse.
Second of all,
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