Every one of them "cheated". That is: They did what they could get away with. Lance was simply the "best cheater". He may not deserve those trophies, but then no one does. Might as well just disband cycling, because the culture of the sport is to do anything you can to win as long as you don't get caught. Lance only got ratted out, he never was proven to have cheated by any objective methods.

I think he needs to pay back every cent that was ever given to him as we'll as his trophies -- once a cheater always a cheater !!

Cheating is part of the sport but he's never failed hundreds of tests. The circumstantial evidence against him is overwhelming. He will suffer financially and the civil suits are lining up but it's not like the death penalty or something. He's just another in a long line of greedy cheaters who have contributed to the further decline in society in which the trust in our institutions as been eroded ever more. But if you look at baseball it bounced back, to some extent, so I assume cycling will too. After the civil suits, hopefully he'll lose it all and have to get a normal job like the rest of us.

I think that there are more important issues to worry about instead of Lance and his "cheating. He had done so much possitive, but then again I am not sure why this was not found out alot sooner. He still is an amazing athelete no matter how you look at it.

Yes, "there are more important issues to worry about instead of Lance and his 'cheating'", but obviously we are so accustomed to superfluous issues of lying, we don't recognize the important ones anymore. I will suggest the culpable misconduct of the Obama administration as it relates to four murders in Libya as one recent example. Now, don't say that Lance's scandal has nothing to do with politics - everything is political! Once again proving that we care much too much about offending others and concern ourselves with what others will think if we challenge popular opinion. Don't be fooled, the media adopts role models/leaders for us and instead of vetting them properly (researching them Google doesn't count) we invite them into our hearts because it is journalism's job to do the research, right? And, if the person is portrayed as likable or emulating an ideal we desire to harbor we help finance their lies and their lifestyle. Yes, people can make mistakes, it's only human, but our biggest mistake (as a society) is that we accept opinions and feelings as FACTS. Lance had a good ride though, didn't he?

Tour de France, Giro d'Italia, and other major bike races. Over the last 50 or 75 years at least 50% of the winners were later found to be using narcotics. It is all BS. NFL, MLB and NBA were using narcotics and/or other drugs for years. Are we going to discard all those winners and championships? One common sense rule should suffice: If they do not find illegal substance use within a year then the book is closed.

Its amusing that we take a fringe sport like cycling and vilify this to the point that people are demanding money back from the livestrong foundation. In the NFL people get a four game suspension for drugs, baseball is taking it a little more "seriously" with the 50 game ban, but you still have guys like Braun that wriggled of the hook and won the MVP.

If it's a sport we don't care about, we can make an example out of someone, if it's a major US sport, we slap you on the wrist and let you compete some more. What Lance did was not great and the worst part was that he had no problem throwing other riders under the bus for doping while he was doing it as well. But when he isn't even allowed to run in the Chicago Marathon? Really?

During many years Lance Armstrong influent many young people of his time in glory.
Right now all people, who was in sport because of him mostly retired.
I do not see any good things to punish Lance Armstrong right now.
Is it new doping in sport?
It was before and it is right now. I doubt, that it will be gone in future.
Let play by rules and science in time, when it was, is and will be important and do not try to rewrite history.

For those of you defending Lance, it's not the crime, it's the hypocrisy behind it. It's just like Tiger Woods, who cares if he's a horrible husband but it was the hypocrisy of his "brand". If Tiger would have simply worn black and said yep I'm an A-hole, it wouldn't have been a story at all. In fact, he would have been even more elevated by the m"asses". You live and die by your brand.

Oh and by the way, he sure made a lot of money "helping" others. Others who now have to face the fact that you can't really make it without "help", wink, wink.

I think it is disgusting what lance armstrong did. He IS a liar and a cheat. He deserves to be punished for sure.

He did in fact fail the very first drug test for the Tour de France that became his first win. His team covered it up by getting a doctor to write a prescription.......He has lied, and lied, and lied (and hurt many people along the way who were telling the truth). I loved watching him every year in the tour - before I found out he was cheating.

Lance did not cheat. I guess if you all worked hard for something, excelled at it, and did great at it.....then, well you are all cheaters.

Lance did not cheat. I guess if you all worked hard for something, excelled at it, and did great at it.....then, well you are all cheaters.

Obviously Lance did what the team Dr's, trainers and conditioning coaches let him or told him and his teammates to do. I highly doubt that the sophication of the cheating was orchestrated by an athlete training 12-16 hrs a day. He is being singled out because he was the best ever. The USPS Team should be banned, the trainers and Dr's should be banned and the athletes should lose their titles. But as far as Lance being singled out as the single offender....is offensive to anyone involved in high level sport.

He's not been singled out... there are lots of bikers who have been banned and had their titles taken away in the past couple years (Alberto Contador for one). Not only did he lie about taking performance enhancing drugs, he also is accused of blood doping - where athletes replenish themselves with their own blood midway into the Tour (this is not an easy way to cheat...you must have your blood drawn, store it and transport it over seas to use during the race).

Back to what I said at the beginning. Just the best among those who all followed the same mantra. Be the best you can be at whatever cost if you don't get caught. I don't believe it's about the money either, although that can't be a negative motivation. It's that crazy thing about being the BEST!. Some people will do "anything" in pursuit of that elusive feeling of power and superiority.

Another sad; "role model" for our younsters. We teach and preach to look up to those who work hard and play by the rules. What they are learning is "greed and the almighty dollar will change the rules those play by.

I think that if lance Team mate was never cut and was winning tours ,nobody would have to say lance is part of that ,i think that this guys after departing from lance Team had to do all kind of thing to get in top 10 ,so when the Question is asked of you ,you just bleam lance ,so why because lance said that he will not be challengeing it again ,that's when they saying that he is doing it ,you guys just want lance to keep challengeing it .
If it is true that lance dope,the best rider to hold that title is Thomas vockler .

There is probably cheating of one kind or another going on every day in Sports. As long as the fans pay the high ticket prices and goto the games. Nothing will be done. One league runs tests on everyone another does it at ramdom.

Personally, I still don't think he did it. All the evidence is circumstantial, and why, after 10+ years of investigating him, do we suddenly have all these "witnesses" who are so willing to testify against him? Where were they 10+ years ago?
I'm sorry, call me naive or blind or whatever you want, but the fact is that the man went through test after test after test and passed. This was a witch hunt and they weren't going to stop until they found something or someone to help "prove" Armstrong did anything to enhance his performance.
But it's fine, the organization got what they wanted: Lance is disgraced, they've destroyed a hero to many and eliminated every good work the man ever did. Livestrong is irreparably damaged and Nike had to disassociate themselves from Armstrong. And for what? To say that he "cheated"? Well good for you.
How's that International audience for the Tour De France now, BTW? Seeing the same numbers as before now that Armstrong is no longer competing? The fact is Armstrong single-handedly put cycling back on the map, and this is how they repay him.

Maybe they should just suspend those rules and let the fastest cyclist win? No holds barred. Genetic manipulation. Blood doping. No helmets. Lobotomy. All fair game.

Why aren't all professional athletes stripped of their records when it is discovered that they are doping? Are baseball and football somehow different that we can allow Barry Bonds to retain his records and his earnings? It is sad that Armstrong has been singled out as the one who needs to pay. The witch hunters should all be proud that they have sacrificed Livestrong in their quest for the truth.

The "sport" of Bodybuilding (if you could call it a sport) and other weight and strength-related sports rely heavily on growth hormones and steroids. It's been a known fact for years that one cannot succeed unless you've pumped yourself up with roids.
The people in charge of those sports (like the Weider family) has turned a blind eye for years. That's why drug-free bodybuilding (the NPC) is more accepted than contests that Arnold (Ahnuld) and Weider produce.

It's beyond me how some are defending this loser. This bully finally got punched in the nose by those who stood up to him and his croonies and there's a lot of them behind the scenes! Job well done.......now wouldn't it be nice if some of that money he gained unfairly over the years be distributed evenly to those pour souls that he went after and attacked over the years to show their efforts weren't all for not. If it weren't for those few individuals that stood up the charade and bullying would still be continuing. They are the true heroes, not the cowards who remain silent or those who enabled this to continue this long....or want to continue the status quo!

Here is a parallel. A guy gets stopped for erratic driving. He says there was a bee in the car. He takes breathalyzer. No sign of alcohol at all. Goes home. Next day people come
to police station and say, "I saw him drink five martinis."

I can understand why people would stand by Lance BEFORE all the evidence came out. But now it's time to go by the facts. As the article says: The evidence cited includes financial payments, emails, laboratory tests that "further prove the use, possession and distribution of performance enhancing drugs by Lance Armstrong."