i understand and have for a long time that cycling was a hugely dirty sport. I think the reason people are super pissed about lance armstrong is that he didnt just win, get rich and go away he held himself out as some sort of physiological miracle, a cycling ubermensch. Story after story about how his body was mutant like and he did not produce as much lactic acid or whatever. Statements that he was perhaps the greatest athlete of all time etc...etc... so i think really that is why people have an extra level of hate and aggression towards him and i think it's totally justified. He should be ostracized at every turn by everyone because he is a coward and a joke. Only in this uncritical and uninformed society would people hang on his legend for so long.