Originally Posted by
SwingBlade
There is one fundamental difference between Tiger and Lance. Tiger cheated on his wife and kids. Lance likely cheated on his sport. Additionally, each also betrayed the trust of perhaps millions of youngsters in love with golf and/or cycling.
Why anyone feels the need to defend their respective transgressions is beyond my comprehension.
If Lance is convicted of anything it will likely be for either making false statements to a Federal investigator or giving false testimony under oath. So far he and his legal team are doing an excellent job of preventing such scenarios. If the Feds ever force Lance into a situation where he has to deny such activities to a Fed then he is probably going down.
Tiger committed what are to many moral offenses. Lance likely committed offenses that are violations of domestic and international law. Dirtbag or not, Tiger retains the right to possess all of his titles and trophies. Sadly, whether or not Lance is ever convicted of any wrongdoing, the same might not ultimately be said of his moral right to retain all of his titles and trophies.
Many good points. Tiger lied to not only his wife and family but to all the wh0res he juggled including the one he paid a million bucks to not speak publicly and lied about who he was to the public to become rich through marketing. His whole existence is a lie. But quite right he didn't cheat in counting his score. He may have cheated taking steroids however if you believe as I do. Many don't know that athletes take steroids for different reasons. Or that he was a Vic head getting hooked to mask pain when he crashed his SUV unraveling his whole phony life. One is injury recovery. It was predicted ten years ago that Tiger's skeleton couldn't hold up to the 130mph clubhead speed he could generate which is proving to be true. Tiger was a much better golfer skinny than he is as a linebacker. Tiger has an old body in golf terms with a lot of 'reps' to use his reference.
As to Lance, the more anybody knows about cycling, the more most accept that to compete they dope. Seems like everybody does as some level but perhaps not. I wonder this and would like to hear from those that may know as I know more about golf than cycling.
What top cyclist in the last 15 years is believed to never have doped? Lemond possibly?...who was under tremendous scrutiny when trying to win the TdF as I recall. He told stories of having to protect his urine samples at all costs worrying about the French tainting them.