Lance must ___________ tonight to earn your respect

Everything on your list. Also, a Sincere apology to all the people who he wronged for speaking the truth. (Betsy, Emma, Lemond etc). Emphasis on sincere.

Totally agree, but he has a lot of work to do after. Building Respect and trust take effort to right the wrong over a period of time without repeat mistakes. Admitting it is the easy part. Especially for Lance because the circumstances are in his favor and no one has the means or time or energy to invest in a legal process or it would've already been done. And then after people are going to hear, people might think about it and say some harsh comment and then 5 minutes later they turned the channel because thats what they always do after they hear about devastating news they are powerless to fix. The hard part are the years of Lance having to live a different way. Breaking habits and changing is harder than admitting.

For me just say he did it. I mean if you didn't think he was dirty then you were naive.

I am so tired of this stuff.

Get his arms COMPLETELY around Oprah when he gives her a big hug.

commit seppuku

I always wonder what would have happened had Pete Rose come clean. He is, in slightly different way, to baseball what Lance is to cycling. Pete was one of the greatest to play the game and a good coach too. But he had bad gambling problem. When he got caught, he basically did what Lance has done to date. As a result, he goes down in history as a villan. But, had he come clean, made his gambling addiction public and worked towards speaking out about gambling, he could have saved himself. Tonight will be Lance's Pete Rose moment.

Above and beyond all else, I need to hear Lance admit that he made doping in cycling worse and that he was competing as much to have the best doping program as he was to be the best cyclist. He can't give us the old "I had no choice" . . ."Everyone doped" . . ."I would still have won if everyone was clean" crap. He needs to say I won because I doped and everyone competing with me had no choice but to dope.

Except Americans think that's the cowardly way out and you won't get respect.

Lance will earn my respect if he calls Tygart a anus hole and says he did what he had to do just like everyone else. And by the way Wiggins is a doper.

suck himself off without using his hands

He's one of the greatest athletes I've ever seen. I don't care about PEDs and will never lose respect for Lance.

Well unless he does a Sandusky or something

Precious Roy wrote:

I always wonder what would have happened had Pete Rose come clean. He is, in slightly different way, to baseball what Lance is to cycling. Pete was one of the greatest to play the game and a good coach too. But he had bad gambling problem. When he got caught, he basically did what Lance has done to date. As a result, he goes down in history as a villan. .

Really? The only people who had it in for Pete was the ignorant sensationalizing media. In a recent poll almost 2/3rds think Pete should be in the Hall of Fame. From day one when he got banned, he has ALWAYS had the majority of the people believe he should be in the Hall of Fame.

Do nothing else. Nothing has changed, he is still the greatest cyclist ever.

Grow a pair, not just get a bigger one.

Get ow to toss his salad

steroids are not cheating because theya re available to everyone. even junior high kids all over america use them, so just shut up about it and accept the fact that different people take different vitamins than you because they have more desire to win than you.

Lorenzo the Magnificent wrote:

commit seppuku

+1

The guy is supposedly worth $125M. If he donates $124,500,000 to charity (not the Dopestrong Foundation) I'll forgive him.

Agree with 1 thru 5. Additionally,

6. Of his own volition, pay back all monies received (with interest)... such as SCA, The Times, U.S. Postal, Amaury Sport Organization, etc. etc... everyone he received a dime from he pays back voluntarily to the best of his calculations... even if it means he liquidates all of his real estate, all of his corporate ownership, all of his stocks and bonds, etc. and humbles himself into living in a modest 3 br / 1br 1000 sqft house to make it happen... that would be a significant indication that he's comprehended his wrongdoing

7. Public apology, via televised press conference and follow-on hand written personal letters, to all innocent parties he trampled... Emma O'Reilly, Besty Andreu, Filippo Simeoni, Christophe Bassons, Travis Tygart, etc. etc... the list is so long... I'd want to hear him say very explicitly something along the lines of "Emma, I called you a whore... you're not, you're a strong, courageous, beautiful woman and I am so sorry"; "Betsy, I called you a fat, ugly, bitch... you're not, you're a tenacious, principled human being and I respect you". A serious, personal, heartfelt apology to each and every person he attempted to destroy would be a good start.

My family wouldn't want him in jail. They'd require him to do something far more painful for him - attend and serve their church to make up for his lies and lack of values.