Amerikanen staan ook achter Armstrong

Geen categorie25 aug 2012, 14:00
Steun.
Nike is niet de enige die Lance Armstrong nog altijd steunt. Michael Rosenberg, een columnist voor Sports Illustrated, legt uit waarom de gemiddelde Amerikaan altijd achter hem zal blijven staan:

He is banking on one thing here: That we don't care if he used drugs.

He is probably right.

We don't care.

Admit it: We ... don't ... care.

If athletes who use performance-enhancing drugs are criminals, then Armstrong pulled off the perfect crime. Most Americans only cared about the Tour de France because Armstrong won it; now that those wins are gone, we don't care about the event anymore. Genius.

En even later:

As time went on, the people who cared realized he had probably been cheating. And the people who just liked Lance Armstrong didn't care.

He made the right decision Thursday. He ended a game he probably deserved to lose. It will be hard for him to vacation in Paris now, but I didn't get the sense he liked those folks much anyway. The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency says Lance Armstrong cheated to win bike races. Armstrong says he is trying to cure cancer. I think a lot of people would rather listen to Armstrong.

Het opmerkelijkste van dit verhaal kon weleens zijn dat niet Armstrong, maar USADA immens impopulair wordt. Het zal Amerikanen een zorg zijn of Armstrong af en toe doping gebruikte of niet: de man is a real American hero. Punt, einde debat.
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