Originally Posted by
Cat4Lifer
Lance should have done what so many of the other riders who were accused and later found out to have doped--just STFU! But I think his ego was too big to go the way of people like George and Levi.
Yep. In the end, I think his undoing was his ego and Alberto Contador. Lance saw him as a threat to break his run in the TdF and decided to come back. Lance thought he could win still. Said as much to Oprah. And Lance now acknowledges that if he hadn't come back, he probably wouldn't be in this predicament. I think it's hiliarious all the things he said before that '09 race. That stuff about it being about the team and he'd be willing to support another rider. He told Oprah that he thought he could win. No way was he going in to support anyone but himself. Ego run amok.