Lance

A friend wrote last night, "It is hard to imagine that three people who were all very close to him [Lance Armstrong] are all lying." 

It is hard to imagine. It's even harder to imagine that all three men -- Floyd Landis, Frankie Andreu, and now Tyler Hamilton -- all of whom have confessed to their own doping, would have been doing that while their team leader Lance Armstrong remained clean. My guess is that had his teammates doped while Armstrong remained clean, he would have turned them in.

I said back in November that I'm convinced Lance Armstrong is a sociopath.

Again, what betrays Armstrong's sociopathy is not his willing participation in a dirty sport, it's the way he treats others and the way he presents himself.

Cycling is unquestionably the dirtiest of sports. While the article on Armstrong took up a complete half page of this morning's NY Times sports section, three pages later there was a tiny one and a half inch mention of how Albert Contador had "extended his commanding lead" in the Giro d'Italia. Contador tested positive for steroids earlier but claimed that was a result of having eaten tainted beef. He has also evidently failed a new test which shows that his blood was at one time stored in a plastic container (meaning he was blood doping).

But he cycles on.

At this point it looks as if the only way to clean up cycling would be to abolish the sport entirely.

That obviously won't happen. But in the meantime, it's looking more likely that Armstrong will be spending time in prison for fraud, conspiracy, drug trafficking, and money laundering.

We can only hope he gets caught lying to the grand jury as well.