The Irish have a tradition around this time to dress up their children as ghosts, goblins and cowboys and send them out to terrorise the local neighbourhood demanding sweets under threat of attack, they then burn every spare scrap of wood in the country.

Burning a dummy seems mild by comparison.

Whether, not weather

Effigy

Guy Fawkes Night is about burning in effigy a Catholic Traitor, generally Guy Fawkes himself. The only absurdity to this is that Armstrong’s religious affiliation is unknown.

Ellenor,so if I cheat and win prize money,sponsorship and world wide notoriety, its ok if I do some charity work to balance it out?

What about all the guys that lance beat,are you sure that they wouldn’t also have done some good,if given the same platform as winner of he tour de France?

He cheated ,and cheaters cannot be allowed to prosper otherwise what’s the incentive not to cheat?

“Despite it all did he not contribute quite a bit to charity?”

As did Jimmy Savile.

His Livestrong charity kept most profits; donating a small proportion to charity.
Yes, he definitely contributed. But he used Livestrong as a front to make money. Put it this way; not too many TdF winners can afford an $11m private jet

I suppose you were one of the clowns 2 months ago who cried “witch hunt” when Lance chose not to defend himself…

@nial
I was, and still am. He may have cheated in a sport that is doped up to its eyes in cheaters. So what? A high percentage of sports people would cheat if they thought they get away with it. Sheep mentality.

No Niall I just think that a community that find it ok to burn a effigy of someone they don’t agree with are LOSERS………

probably all have webbed feet

Agree with Green Monkey. I have no time for Lance Armstrong but this kind of thing is representative of modern society proclivity for building people up only to knock them down at some point in the future. The kind of idiots who want to burn an effigy of a well known person are more than likely the same people who would have blown a whole lot of unnecessary smoke up that person’s ass when they were riding high (pun not intended).

The world could do with a more measured approach to success and failure. But I won’t hold my breath.

wow your not nice are you

In the face of mass hypocrisy… It’s hard to be

I agree with Andrew, those holier then thou, “armchair athletes” and pseudo intellectuals .the same ones portrayed in the Simpsons, burning cars and running amok like headless chickens.

The point is anyone who has ever particiapted in REAL sport knows there is an incredibly fine line between physiologically manipulating techniques to increase proformance and illegal drugs. These people rely on their coaches and peers and the evaluation and testing clearly aren’t fair…

NOTHING has been proven. He decided not to defend himself. This does not mean a person is guilty. Statements were collected but still no positive tests. It’s really that simple.

I want those positive tests

Simple