Originally Posted by
Exit3
So if they were all doping, doesn't that make Lance the winner of all those races?
That is the level playing field myth...
if they were all doping, then he beat them fair and square. According to
a review in Outside magazine, the book demolishes that myth.
In this sense, the book destroys another myth: that everyone was doing it, so Armstrong was, in a weird way, just competing on a level playing field. There was no level playing field. With his connections to Michele Ferrari, the best dishonest doctor in the business, Armstrong was always “two years ahead of what everybody else was doing,” Hamilton writes. Even on the Postal squad there was a pecking order. Armstrong got the superior treatments.
From what I can tell, Armstrong parlayed the good will and popularity he achieved from surviving cancer into lucrative sponsorships (e.g., Nike, Trek) that paid for the best cheating money could buy, and his competition couldn't afford. Does that sound fair to you?