Lance Armstrong's long con a blow to believers
Now that the doping, duplicitous cyclist has been unmasked, those yellow wristbands look more like a symbol of gullibility than of hope
Eighty million yellow wristbands worn as symbols of hope now represent duplicity.
Seven yellow jerseys worn as mantles of a champion now represent fraud.
Who is Lance Armstrong? Tour de France winner, cancer survivor, heroic conqueror of mountains and adversity. But we always had suspicions, and finally we know the truth: Armstrong is a con man.
People who still think otherwise are deluding themselves the same way Armstrong deluded them.
There's a saying among athletes that only dopes get caught for doping. And only dopes believe stories that are too good to be true. Armstrong doped and duped with equal precision.
"We were good actors," Armstrong teammate Tyler Hamilton said. "We had two faces."