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Lanced: the shaming of Lance Armstrong by John Follain, David Walsh, Paul Kimmage
4.0
Kudos to David Walsh for his passion and determination over the years. This collection of news articles, all published in The Sunday Times, shows that Walsh could smell this fishy mess long before it could be proven. His newspaper should be commended for printing Walsh's articles and supporting his cause despite the legal defamation suits that resulted.
David Walsh is a true investigative reporter, the likes of which barely exists anymore. For more than 17 years, he pursued evidence of doping in professional cycling and he seemed to have his sights set firmly on finding fault with Lance Armstrong. All other publications and reporters gave up that angle and chose to write about Armstrong's domination of the Tour de France in a glorified manner, treating the 1998 Festina Affair as simply a bad year in an otherwise clean sport. Walsh never wavered from his view that cycling was corrupt and, as all other top riders of the Tour were proven dopers and hence fell from grace, Walsh maintained his belief that Lance was actively doping and was using his wealth and influence to control and cover up the trail of evidence.
More interesting than the doping allegations is the character study of Armstrong. Truly a sociopath, Lance discarded all of his so-called friends, confidants, team members and lovers when they were no longer useful in his climb to the top, and their silence was bought through countless legal settlements that forced secrecy.
David Walsh is a true investigative reporter, the likes of which barely exists anymore. For more than 17 years, he pursued evidence of doping in professional cycling and he seemed to have his sights set firmly on finding fault with Lance Armstrong. All other publications and reporters gave up that angle and chose to write about Armstrong's domination of the Tour de France in a glorified manner, treating the 1998 Festina Affair as simply a bad year in an otherwise clean sport. Walsh never wavered from his view that cycling was corrupt and, as all other top riders of the Tour were proven dopers and hence fell from grace, Walsh maintained his belief that Lance was actively doping and was using his wealth and influence to control and cover up the trail of evidence.
More interesting than the doping allegations is the character study of Armstrong. Truly a sociopath, Lance discarded all of his so-called friends, confidants, team members and lovers when they were no longer useful in his climb to the top, and their silence was bought through countless legal settlements that forced secrecy.